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Showing Original Post only (View all)Never again ask "How did Germans let it hapen?" [View all]
We know now, because we're on the same horrible path.
The only ones who can (lawfully) stop it right now are the Republicans.
Yet, the Republican Party has chosen to nothing to stop the madness.
So are the rest of us helpless?
Seems so.
And if you think these thoughts are extreme/insane/out of line, how long will you wait to confirm that my beliefs are out of line? And when is "too late," "too late?"
One more thought: Who among us will, in some future day, be saying, "I didn't know." or, "I was only following orders."
Sorry people. This is how it begins.
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. --Sam Rayburn nt
raccoon
Oct 2017
#45
We're letting a minority of this country change our democracy, if not outright destroy it.
no_hypocrisy
Oct 2017
#7
Sinclair Lewis also wrote "The Jungle" which changed this country and shocked it. It exposed the
kerry-is-my-prez
Oct 2017
#37
Whoops! Sorry Upton - you were a great man. Wish we had more like him nowadays. But people
kerry-is-my-prez
Oct 2017
#41
WOW !!! So Germany was tip of the spear society before Hitler. US is third largest country on Earth
uponit7771
Oct 2017
#49
GOP wants tax cuts and racism written into law, they will and are risking all life
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#28
Agree. In my opinion, the United States of my birth is gone. It has been
sinkingfeeling
Oct 2017
#31
I said during the voting season "Vote like it's 1932- only this time, you can do something about it"
NBachers
Oct 2017
#43
+1, ... and most Germans living in those towns STILL ... STILL DID NOT BELIEVE UNTIL ...
uponit7771
Oct 2017
#47
Is anyone here really saying that millions of people are going to be systematically exterminated?
Doodley
Oct 2017
#59
I asked some a-hole conservative on twitter last night who was saying horrid things about "libtards"
adigal
Oct 2017
#60
Well, I see solutions and paths of resistance offered, but nobody seems to want to do them
ck4829
Oct 2017
#71