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Joinfortmill

(14,233 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 11:38 AM Mar 2023

Does America Die Gradually, Then Suddenly?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-america-die-gradually-then-suddenly

(I cannot do this article justice with excerpts. Please read - Me)

'In 1926 Ernest Hemmingway published his novel The Sun Also Rises, which has this extraordinary bit of dialogue about how change happens in most aspects of life — and how governments rise and fall.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
”Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
”What brought it on?”
“Friends," said Mike. "I had a lot of friends. False friends.

For some unfathomable reason, Democrats insist on calling their Republican colleagues their “friends.” They are not friends... With few exceptions, they are systematically destroying American democracy with the clear objective of replacing it with strongman authoritarianism, a new and American version of what Benito Mussolini called fascism. Right now they’re moving gradually:

Every time these sorts of coups happen, the nation’s people are shocked and surprised. They had no idea how far things had gone. It even happened that way with the American Revolution and the Civil War...When Franklin D. Roosevelt faced the fascist “America First” movement within the GOP, he went to political war with them and the Supreme Court that backed them...“They hate me,” he thundered to cheers, “and I welcome their hatred!”'
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Does America Die Gradually, Then Suddenly? (Original Post) Joinfortmill Mar 2023 OP
K&R n/t OneGrassRoot Mar 2023 #1
We are seeing the coup right in front of us. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #2
When it happens, it goes fast. cilla4progress Mar 2023 #3
Bingo. Well said and K&R. c-rational Mar 2023 #4
In the end though look what happened to Mussolini and Hitler. Butterflylady Mar 2023 #5
Geezus... DU is on a doom and gloom kick today... Chakaconcarne Mar 2023 #6
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."...nt mitch96 Mar 2023 #7

cilla4progress

(24,585 posts)
3. When it happens, it goes fast.
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 11:56 AM
Mar 2023

See 1930s Germany.

Could US be going down a 30 year road through hell to redemption?

What does this planet look like in 30 years?

Young people know...the writing is on the wall!

Butterflylady

(3,523 posts)
5. In the end though look what happened to Mussolini and Hitler.
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 01:28 PM
Mar 2023

Mussolini and his ilk wound up hung and Hitler shot himself and Eva Braun took cyanide. Not happy endings.

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