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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"When Trump came for Mexicans I did not speak out.. "
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/08/cancer-diagnosis-obamacare-has-your-back/
Of course we did speak out.. this is for those who haven't yet..
Thanks to Mayor Nutter for calling him an "asshole" today.. Speaking Out!
MrWendel http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027433452#top
Cha
(297,574 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)and here's another ...
Cha
(297,574 posts)trump fits the analogy too freakishly well
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Cha
(297,574 posts)so even though they started this environment.. they're so busy repudiating.
thank you, napkinz
napkinz
(17,199 posts)I will say, thank heaven for Donald Trump! Donald, you unknowingly did us a great service!
w0nderer
(1,937 posts)why change a winning idea, America has shown (repeatedly) they'll vote like controlled (as the majority of the voters..not people here)
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Cha
(297,574 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Bravo Daily News!! Perfect front page.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Cha
(297,574 posts)Cha
(297,574 posts)Various GOP grandees clutched their pearls and averred that this was unconstitutional, un-American, and bad politics. Even Dick Darth Vader Cheney snapped back at Il Douche. (Of course, he was probably mostly concerned with his rich Saudi friends not being able to visit him at his secure, undisclosed location.)
Forgive me if I take their protestations with an ounce of salt.
The GOP, for 50 years, has covertly stoked racism among the white working class, the people who feel disenfranchised since the social justice movements of the 1960s and who form the bedrock of the Republican voting base. As a wise Republican once said, you can no longer say nigger, but you can say welfare queen, or forced busing. The code is understood.
What Il Douche has done is say Screw the code words and come out full bore on the racist angle. If you thought it would stop with his anti-Latino diatribes, you were sorely mistaken. (They came for the Latinos, and I did nothing, for I was not from Mexico.)
More @ http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/08/the-first-time-as-tragedy-the-second-time-as-farce/
napkinz
(17,199 posts)that was Lee Atwater
Cha
(297,574 posts)was a #BLM supporter. That's how I remember lee freaking Atwater as of late.
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Cha
(297,574 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Gothmog
(145,500 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)If Tump was a character in a novel or movie, I would criticize saying it was too over the top unrealistic.
Cha
(297,574 posts)draconian villains in the past.. now there's trump.
Hekate
(90,779 posts)It's good to be reminded that he was a Christian -- a Lutheran pastor -- who spoke out strongly against the Nazis. He long survived WW II, but spent 7 years in Nazi concentration camps.
With so much anti-Christian sentiment here at DU, sometimes it is good to be reminded that all Christians -- even as all Muslims -- are not cut from the same cloth. There are good people everywhere, there are courageous people everywhere.
May we count ourselves among them when the final tally is made.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)More than a third say it makes them more likely to vote for him, according to an online PulsePoll conducted by Purple Strategies on Tuesday.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-09/bloomberg-politics-poll-trump-muslim-ban-proposal
Cha
(297,574 posts)Squinch
(50,993 posts)time to read it, but I just want to support them.
Cha
(297,574 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)Someone like Trump shouldn't be in the top tier.
I witnessed a man threatening to hit an elderly, disabled person parked in front of the grocery today waiting to pick up his wife who is also disabled and uses a walker. I gave my name to the store manager if the police needed another witness.
He was hitting his window and saying he'd kick his ass, and telling him he was what was wrong with this country. For parking in front of the store waiting for his disabled wife who had the grocery bags strung on her walker as she navigated her way to their mini-van.
Things are getting really weird, in a bad way, out there.
Cha
(297,574 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)But the level of hate and anger isn't being helped by Trump, that's for sure.
I only even brought it up here because of the fact he was yelling how he was what was "wrong with this country" and all. It's linked somehow I suspect.