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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey witnessed evil and they still followed.
That is the legacy of the German people of the 30s and 40s. That will be the legacy of the Trump voters.
bdamomma
(63,975 posts)of this POS off their hands, gas lighting is being done, and the trump deplorables are believing every word.
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)Trek4Truth
(515 posts)PLUS, we have Mueller...PLUS, WE HAVE US...and we are getting louder every day.
bdamomma
(63,975 posts)will kill them. Us too.
Trek4Truth
(515 posts)in their backyards. I'm thinking there is going to be uproar over this too. This hits R's in their heart....MONEY.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Probably 30-40% of the human race is authoritarian by nature, the vast majority conservatives.
Liberals aren't authoritarian by nature but some can be persuaded to support an authoritarian leader. The numbers vulnerable to authoritarian rhetoric shrink in good times and are more inclined to flock to and obey those they see as strong leaders in anxious ones.
What happened to Germany has happened in a number of democracies around the planet, where electorates voted to lessen or replace representative government with authoritarian regimes. None were as well entrenched as ours, including Germany's 15-year experiment in democracy imposed by the Versailles Treaty in the very miserable period between world wars. Almost all Germans remembered what it was to live in a nation that was advanced and prosperous under an authoritarian monarchy.
Political experts participating in an ongoing authoritarian threat survey as of March and April 2018 predict (averaged) a "9.1% chance of democratic breakdown in the U.S. within the next four years, and 100% of respondents believe that democratic quality has declined over the last 10 years."
Not good for a nation that once believed it couldn't happen here.
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https://www.authwarningsurvey.com/