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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes 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 theyre moving gradually:
Every time these sorts of coups happen, the nations 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
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OneGrassRoot
(22,917 posts)1. K&R n/t
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)2. We are seeing the coup right in front of us.
As some states go completely fascist.
cilla4progress
(24,585 posts)3. When it happens, it goes fast.
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!
c-rational
(2,581 posts)4. Bingo. Well said and K&R.
Butterflylady
(3,523 posts)5. In the end though look what happened to Mussolini and Hitler.
Mussolini and his ilk wound up hung and Hitler shot himself and Eva Braun took cyanide. Not happy endings.
Chakaconcarne
(2,385 posts)6. Geezus... DU is on a doom and gloom kick today...
or....Does America die gradually and is then reborn?
WTF?
mitch96
(13,816 posts)7. "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."...nt