2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhere are the Democratic leaders???????
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All I hear and see are Warren and Sanders, where the fuck are the rest of them while our country is being divided up amongst the jackals...
Very concerned is Not Enough...
Outrage is more acceptable when the election was ethically reported to have been obviously hijacked, stolen, rigged.
This is beyond ridiculous to sit and watch another voter hijacked election, where the popular vote will be over 2 million for the loser.
WTF is going on??????
Must be the leaders are in the streets....!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Many don't get the media attention of Warren or Sanders. Warren is on an upward track and Sanders was a candidate in the primary.
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NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Nor am I sure what that comment has to do with the flawed assumption in the op.
I do understand the op a little better after your response.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Very concerned is not the correct words to describe what is going on
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)Started his reign. ....
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I'm doing some research myself. Relaxing Friday evening.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028289830
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis waged a modern whirlwind campaign in 1930 unlike anything ever seen in Germany. Hitler traveled the country delivering dozens of major speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands, signing autographs, posing for pictures, and even kissing babies.
Joseph Goebbels brilliantly organized thousands of meetings, torchlight parades, plastered posters everywhere and printed millions of special edition Nazi newspapers.
Germany was in the grip of the Great Depression with a population suffering from poverty, misery, and uncertainty, amid increasing political instability.
For Hitler, the master speech maker, the long awaited opportunity to let loose his talents on the German people had arrived. He would find in this downtrodden people, an audience very willing to listen. In his speeches, Hitler offered the Germans what they needed most, encouragement. He gave them heaps of vague promises while avoiding the details. He used simple catchphrases, repeated over and over.
A typical campaign scene with Nazi posters on display next to the Center Party, Communists, Socialists and others. Below: Repeated propaganda marches became a cheap and effective form of publicity - sometimes leading to violence between rival political groups. Hörst Wessel, pictured at the front, was killed during such a brawl in 1930 and raised to the status of a martyr by Nazis via the "Hörst Wessel" banner anthem.
His campaign appearances were carefully staged events. Audiences were always kept waiting, deliberately letting the tension increase, only to be broken by solemn processions of Brownshirts with golden banners, blaring military music, and finally the appearance of Hitler amid shouts of "Heil!" The effect in a closed in hall with theatrical style lighting and decorations of swastikas was overwhelming and very catching.
Hitler began each speech in low, hesitating tones, gradually raising the pitch and volume of his voice then exploding in a climax of frenzied indignation. He combined this with carefully rehearsed hand gestures for maximum effect. He skillfully played on the emotions of the audience bringing the level of excitement higher and higher until the people wound up a wide-eyed, screaming, frenzied mass that surrendered to his will and looked upon him with pseudo-religious adoration.
Hitler offered something to everyone: work to the unemployed; prosperity to failed business people; profits to industry; expansion to the Army; social harmony and an end of class distinctions to idealistic young students; and restoration of German glory to those in despair. He promised to bring order amid chaos; a feeling of unity to all and the chance to belong. He would make Germany strong again; end payment of war reparations to the Allies; tear up the treaty of Versailles; stamp out corruption; keep down Marxism; and deal harshly with the Jews.
He appealed to all classes of Germans. The name of the Nazi Party itself was deliberately all inclusive the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
All of the Nazis, from Hitler, down to the leader of the smallest city block, worked tirelessly, relentlessly, to pound their message into the minds of the Germans.
On election day September 14, 1930, the Nazis received 6,371,000 votes over eighteen percent of the total and were thus entitled to 107 seats in the German Reichstag. It was a stunning victory for Hitler. Overnight, the Nazi Party went from the smallest to the second largest political party in Germany.
It propelled Hitler to solid national and international prestige and aroused the curiosity of the world press. He was besieged with interview requests. Foreign journalists wanted to know what did he mean tear up the Treaty of Versailles and end war reparations? and that Germany wasn't responsible for the First World War?
Gone was the Charlie Chaplin image of Hitler as the laughable fanatic behind the Beer Hall Putsch. The beer hall revolutionary had been replaced by the skilled manipulator of the masses.
On October 13, 1930, dressed in their brown shirts, the elected Nazi deputies marched in unison into the Reichstag and took their seats. When the roll-call was taken, each one shouted, "Present! Heil Hitler!"
They had no intention of cooperating with the democratic government, knowing it was to their advantage to let things get worse in Germany, thus increasing the appeal of Hitler to an ever more miserable people.
Nazi storm troopers dressed in civilian clothes celebrated their electoral victory by smashing the windows of Jewish shops, restaurants and department stores, an indication of things to come.
Now, for the floundering German democracy, the clock was ticking and time was on Hitler's side.
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Substitute certain names and words....!,!!!!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I'm glad we have strong opposition.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)They had no intention of cooperating with the democratic government, knowing it was to their advantage to let things get worse in Germany, thus increasing the appeal of Hitler to an ever more miserable people
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Our opposition will be fierce.
Nothing I have said would stop you from writing them and calling them with your outlined concerns. Shorten up the thought a little during calls.
I will use different methods but they will understand my concern just the same.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)But I seriously wonder why there is not more outrage to an obviously rigged election...
Is this the all boys club now?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Warren and Sanders are constantly beating the rigged election drum? Might want to read your op again. I do understand it's main assumption was quickly disproven.
"Is this the all boys club now?"
Now? Really? I don't know how to reply to that in any manner other than the offensive nature in which you typed it. Do some math. It has been from the beginning of time.
We are going to fight together.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)BlueProgressive
(229 posts)Go figure.
DarthDem
(5,255 posts)That the OP is concerned.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Not all for the same reasons.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)I wasn't sure what that comment was saying.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)cilla4progress
(24,734 posts)to think they are off somewhere working on overturning this stolen election.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)Sunny05
(865 posts)and news websites about Elijah Cummings pressuring House Oversight Committee to investigate trump financial conflicts and Russian interference with U.S. election as well as demanding info on Jared Kushner's role in new administration. Could do internet search (duckduckgo if you want break from google or yahoo, tho I'd like my Elijah Cummings searches to be counted by Google.)
Also, I just posted something about a couple of state legislatures pursuing automatic registration --and asked for feedback from DUers who know more on this topic.
I'll see if I can find more for you. Those came to mind as I read your post.
Sunny05
(865 posts)arguing against Jeff Sessions as AG. But I couldn't get to the link. The site had a big ad that took over page and caused it to freeze up.
Anyway, I know it's not a lot of coverage, in the big scheme of things.
Oh, John Lewis got National Book Award. I know that's not the news topic (fighting trump and his bigoted admin) you are looking for. But a few sources covered him getting thiscawardc-- and summarized his history of civil rights fights. Can't beat that for a news story.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Hekate
(90,690 posts)....is neither true nor helpful.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Says ok , I am very concerned about the bully hijacking our government.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)The Clintons are done with politics. Obama and Biden are on their way out of office. All of our Congressional leaders range from old (Schumer, Warren) to ancient (Pelosi, Sanders).
Sunny05
(865 posts)though I know it doesn't address your (our) concerns fully. Anyway, from Huffington Post (glad & thankful but wish in msm, too), and specifically naming only two "Hell No" Dem leaders (unless I misread), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Katherine Clark (D-Mass):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-democrats-donald-trump_us_582f57a9e4b030997bbf457d
Please let us know if you have more options formation on this "Hell No" caucus.
Thanks!
Sunny05
(865 posts)Senator Corey Booker is taking a stand on trump nominees:
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/18/sen-cory-booker-takes-stand-speaks-donald-trumps-dangerous-nominees.html
I am sure you are wanting even more Dem leaders speaking out and more news coverage of them doing so, as am I. But I am still collecting and sending what I find.
Sunny05
(865 posts)but just in case, here it is:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028291795