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that this was going to happen.
He was a brilliant man, a civil sevant who held two full-time jobs, and while doing that received no fewer than 7 masters degrees from various institutions in fields ranging from English Poetry to European history to Lingusitics to a Masters in Hebrew Letters. He was a 4 year veteran of the Pacific Theater, a Purple Heart recipient, and enlisted on December 8, 1941. He was a pragmatic liberal Democrat who understood the vagaries of politics and could ratiionalize the ascent of Reagan as a natural outcome of market forces predisposed against Carter and the Watergate anomalies.
He used to say that the only difference between the US and Germany pre WWII was that the Germans were more intellectual, more cultured, better read, and more capable. Thus could Americans fall for the idiocy that is this new fascism here in the United States. In my house, Mein Kampf was required reading and learning of the ascent of totalitarianism of whatever stripe was absolutely mandatory.
He said it was only a matter of time - the decision to change from a titular democracy to an obviously repressive society required only two things. Panic and stupidity.
Well, we have both in great quantity.
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