auntblabby wrote:
AFAIC these are the warning signs of out-and-out fascism. we don't have to look to WW2 Italy and Germany or 70s latin America for examples, it is here now, the elephant has poked its nose under the tent and is sucking the air out, we still have time to stop this but not much more. but i'm not holding my breath for somebody to save us from ourselves, America hasn't much longer to go.
Lately I have found myself thinking about the multiple award-winning film "Cabaret" made in 1972, which depicts the rise of Nazi/brownshirt violence in Germany in the early 1930s, the snowballing of thuggery whipped along in the name of patriotism. No-one who saw the film in the 70s could have thought they would live to see similar thug behaviour in the United States in the 21st century, not even at a political rally. I shudder think of the long term implications, the immediate ones are appalling enough and I turn away in disgust from the newsreels.