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procon

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7. Exactly!

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 3, 2017, 03:43 PM

Feb 2017

We humans may like to think that we have matured a bit since then or learned our lessons, but no, regrettably, as a species we are the same grasping, self serving posers then as now. In place of the Nazis, now we stand on the sidelines and watch our ersatz friends and family fawning and fighting for the least crumbs that trickle down from the gilded plates of the super rich.

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Anyone here watches the series "Colony" on USA? [View all] MrScorpio Feb 2017 OP

kind of like what the rethugs are doing to this country kimbutgar Feb 2017 #1

I was thinking about rump supporters last night watching the episode. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #2

Yes, I've been watching it. I had the same reaction. MANative Feb 2017 #3

Yep Solly Mack Feb 2017 #4

As many did for the Nazis.. hlthe2b Feb 2017 #5

Exactly! procon Feb 2017 #7

I think it's actually a good metaphor for what's happening now. alarimer Feb 2017 #6