The risk of failing to defend our values from the rise of the far right - emboldening fascists....

[Soph0571]

It’s un-British to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump

It’s too late to stop the red-carpet treatment, but it’s not too late for the prime minister to do the right thing. Theresa May should issue a powerful rejection – not of the US as a country or the office of the presidency, but of Trump and the far-right agenda he embodies. She should say that the citizens of the UK and the US agree on many things, but that Trump’s views are incompatible with British values.

][link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/01/donald-trump-state-visit-red-carpet-unbritish|

All of this...
Of course May will not call him out, cause trade deal

[no_hypocrisy]

1. We have an advantage that Weimar Germany didn't have:

We've seen this proverbial movie before. Germany was only 15 years, if that, into a fledgling democracy before it surrendered to fascism.

The post-WWI German citizens didn't realize what was coming. They were poor, unemployed, hungry, humiliated. A stick of butter in the morning would cost a wheelbarrow of useless German marks. In the afternoon, the same stick of butter would cost two.

We know the signs. We know we have a limited amount of time before it's too late to turn the country back.

The question is do *We* the People have the nerve, the strength, and the determination to do what our elected officials can't or won't do?

[Trumpocalypse]

2. The biggest problem was that

the Communists refused to unite with Social Democrats against the Nazis. They hated the Social Dems more because the Social Dems weren't pure enough. Sort like those on the left who vote for the Green party candidate because the Democratic party candidate is too moderate.

[pangaia]

3. "We the people" do NOT know. Some of us do.

But precious few. We cannot judge the entire country by the people at DU.

It is already too late, I hate to say, but that is my take.