01-19-2018, 12:21 AM
(01-18-2018, 10:45 PM)nebraska Wrote: Americans are whistling down to the concentration camps.
Nearly broke and too old to start over elsewhere, and knowing from history that there really are fates worse than death (such as a Gulag or a KZ-lager, and in view of a sordid part of the American heritage, a slave auction), I keep Valium and vodka ready.
Donald Trump and his flunkies scare me. At least the fascist pigs who ruled Germany, Italy, and Japan in the last Crisis Era.
I used to have the conceit that a country in which the intellectual elites know Macbeth will never put up with thug rule. If Shakespeare didn't give a fair warning, Orwell offers another.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.