Question about "THE GOOD GERMAN". - Democratic Underground

sicksicksick_N_tired

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Tue Nov-13-07 07:32 PM
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Question about "THE GOOD GERMAN".

Was it about BEING German?

Is it like BEING American?

Is disciminating between leaders and people EVER "good"?

What's your interpretation?

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BuyingThyme

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Tue Nov-13-07 07:35 PM
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1. Good guys finish last.

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mmonk

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Tue Nov-13-07 07:38 PM
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2. It's a descriptive phrase about people from a given time

following their leader without remorse or careful thought of action and is used comparatively to people whose actions closely mirror that behavior trait.

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sicksicksick_N_tired

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Tue Nov-13-07 08:43 PM
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7. Or,...a mass of disenchanted and struggling folks intentionally FED dreams,...

,...dreams that they CAN POSSESS by pure determination. They NEVER acknowledge those that feed them only want to gain control over them.

The manipulation doesn't hurt the bottom of the economic scale as much as it does the ghostly middle.

When those who possess everything required to make a 'dream' real (e.g. appearance and education) find out it was ALWAYS a faux facade,...maybe, the "Good American" will get a clue.

Maybe.

I am amazed at the complicity or laziness or whatever it is that is happening in face of this 'unitary'.

I want to leave.

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mmonk

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Wed Nov-14-07 07:59 AM
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8. I understand your wanting to leave. I myself am tired

of thinking about it. I'm tired of my actions yielding nothing anymore when in the past, actions did yield results.

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Der Blaue Engel

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Tue Nov-13-07 07:42 PM
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3. Apparently, I'm one

Since I plan to vote for the Democratic nominee.

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ShaneGR

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Tue Nov-13-07 07:43 PM
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4. Basically it described a woman who was a good nazi...

Basically, she went along with the regime, because she was a "good german."

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mmonk

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Tue Nov-13-07 07:46 PM
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5. I think it's also very important in what

Edited on Tue Nov-13-07 07:46 PM by mmonk

it says about people. Very apropos to people who ignore it's lesson.

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Individualist

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Tue Nov-13-07 07:46 PM
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6. I suggest you read some books about Germany covering the time period when Nazis were in power.

In the meantime, there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Germans

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