Sunday, November 18, 2018

The World They Lost: The Golden Years of Weimar Germany

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/14/1812938/-The-World-They-Lost-The-Golden-Years-of-Weimar-Germany?detail=emaildkre

Human progress and the democracies necessary for it is NOT preordained as the above link about Germany reveals. The progressive Weimar Republic ended not because the Nazis were so strong but because Weimar was too weak and allowed Nazis a place in the political arena.  

A culture must work on maintaining a free state and never let hard times bring the corruption of war mongering extremist Nazi-like fascists to power nor bring the corruption on the extreme violent left either.  These political forces will do or say anything to bamboozle an electorate into thinking strongmen can bring the prosperity and calm we all crave. 

They cannot.  They bring cruel, brutal, inhumane killer regimes that could now in our nuclear age end life on earth as we know it.  If the Trumpists prove anything they prove that.

KEEP RESISTING.  RESISTING WORKS.  SIMPLY LOOK AT THE NEAR 40 SEATS CAPTURED BY DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE EVEN IN ORANGE COUNTY WHICH COMPLETELY TURNED BLUE.  WE OVERTURNED AT LEAST IN THE HOUSE THE POLITICS OF HATE, THE ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY.  DO NOT SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE HANDS OF VICTORY.  STAY UNITED. NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN AND  ON TO 2020 AND LET'S WIN THEN!!

Democratic Presidential Convention--On to November

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