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In reply to the discussion: If We Don't Act Now, Fascism Will Be on Our Doorstep, Says Yale Historian. [View all]dameatball
(7,380 posts)28. There are any number of two-bit wanna be dictators in this country.
We have been fortunate enough over the decades that most of them failed to get elected and those that did were curbed by more patriotic members of other areas of our government. Things have changed. We have a Republican controlled Congress that allows the ongoing coup and a right-leaning SCOTUS that is either illegally or immorally tied to corporate interests.
It is up to us to defend and rehab what is left of Democracy.
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If We Don't Act Now, Fascism Will Be on Our Doorstep, Says Yale Historian. [View all]
N_E_1 for Tennis
Apr 2018
OP
The link between fux and dump is much more direct. They are both getting orders
erronis
Apr 2018
#17
help indeed. after the comey letter is when Clinton's polling numbers started to change.
Kurt V.
Apr 2018
#24
Past week: 1. Database of journalists & bloggers. 2. Concentration camps on military bases.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#10
Our inability to confront the size of our Defense/War apparatus is a huge problem for our nation.
jalan48
Apr 2018
#19
And going into a black hole nobody knows where. I always have thought it a crime and a sin.
notdarkyet
Apr 2018
#29
It's not just at the door. Fascism has opened the door and crossed the threshold.
hedda_foil
Apr 2018
#33