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Pictures of children being arrested...Nazis 1940's and Trump/GOP 2018 (Original Post) workinclasszero Jun 2018 OP
Hard to believe but bluestarone Jun 2018 #1
But..it could never happen here right? workinclasszero Jun 2018 #3
Exactly!! bluestarone Jun 2018 #6
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Jun 2018 #2
Be proud of what right wing conservative power always does America!! workinclasszero Jun 2018 #4
Happy Father's Day! n/t OhZone Jun 2018 #5
Yeah workinclasszero Jun 2018 #7
Horrified and Speechless thbobby Jun 2018 #8
Contrasts and similarities. thucythucy Jun 2018 #9
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
3. But..it could never happen here right?
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:12 AM
Jun 2018

You are right, its happening NOW!

If the GOP is willing to use terror against children, what will they stop at to retrain their power this fall??????

bluestarone

(16,959 posts)
6. Exactly!!
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:19 AM
Jun 2018

I really think ANYTHING could happen this November!! They will steal another election i fear! There is NO LIMIT to what they might do! We better be ready to do SOMETHING! We are being ATTACKED!! this i have no doubt about!!

malaise

(269,022 posts)
2. Get thee to the greatest page
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:10 AM
Jun 2018

NOW

I weep for humanity - where is the rest of the world - where is the OAS, where is CARICOM, where are the South Americans.

Fuck the fucking leaders of this planet

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
7. Yeah
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:22 AM
Jun 2018

On this Father's day, I weep for the children snatched from their parents, alone among strangers that don't even speak their language, locked up in terror in Trump's gulag.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
8. Horrified and Speechless
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:36 AM
Jun 2018

Anyone not horrified by trump-Nazi tactics... I cannot express enough contempt for. I am not speechless, but I curse way too much anyway. Still, what the FUCK is happening to our country and what the FUCK is wrong with people that would support this? NeoNazi Americans.

thucythucy

(8,066 posts)
9. Contrasts and similarities.
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:51 AM
Jun 2018

Of course, the children being separated from their families today aren't being sent to gas chambers, not yet anyway.

On the other hand, the photo of that child (most likely Jewish) being led away at gun point by a German soldier wasn't widely circulated in the German press of the time. Unless I'm wrong (which is always a very strong possibility) that photo didn't get wide circulation until after the war, not among ordinary Germans anyway.

So in a way, we're being tested as Germans of the time weren't. They could (and generally did) plead ignorance when confronted with the atrocities committed in their name by their government. They could also say, with some justification, that to openly oppose the policies of Hitler and the Nazis risked imprisonment or even death.

We have no such excuses, none whatsoever. The atrocities now being committed in our name by our government are out in the open for everyone--including the American public--to see. And we have ways to confront these atrocities not available to ordinary Germans in 1933-45: a relatively free press, a relatively independent (for now, anyway) judiciary, a right to assembly, and a right to vote for an alternative this coming November and thus register our outrage in a meaningful way--even if the coming elections will no doubt be compromised by voter suppression, Russian hacking, and corporate media playing their usual "all sides do it" horse race BS.

We as a people are being tested. How we respond to this testing will mark us, for good or ill, for all time.

GOTV! Everything we value is now at stake.

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