Posted on 07/19/2018 1:27:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It can't happen here.
That’s more than just the title of a suddenly highly relevant Sinclair Lewis novel about the rise of an American dictator, written in 1935 — another era when despots were on people’s minds, for some weird reason. No, “it can’t happen here” long been the national motto of a United States of America that has long thought itself immune to the slings and arrows of everyone else’s world history.
An authoritarian president with nothing but contempt for 242 years of democratic norms, a free press, and a judicial system untainted by political interference? It can’t happen here, the American exceptionalists all told us. An unqualified narcissist gaining the Oval Office with the help of crimes committed by a foreign adversary? Of course it can’t happen here!
And there’s a flip side to all of this denial. The notion that the will of the people can regain control of the plot narrative — that also could never happen here, not in America. Remember what just happened in South Korea in late 2016 and early 2017 (coincidentally, the same months that America was electing and inaugurating Donald Trump) — the so-called Candlelight Revolution in which as many as two million people, fed up with their corrupt president, Park Geun-Hye, took to the streets of Seoul? Those protests continued until Park was impeached and removed from office and a new president (who’s conducted a Nobel Prize-worthy campaign for peace on the Korean Peninsula, by the way) replaced him.....
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Idiotic nonsense - every bit of it.
And I’m so sick of the ‘free press’ BS - as if they should not be questioned.
President Trump is not hindering a ‘free press’ just because he’s not allowing them to report what he knows to be lies.
The MSM is free as can be to produce propaganda, but when they do, they should expect to be called out on - and held accountable for - their deceptions/lies/distortions/half-truths/our-sources-tell-us fakery.
As Americans, we still have the right to say the MSM is lying.
Will apparently has his panties in a bunch.
Seems to me this rabbit dog (news paper) is barking up the wrong tree. Don’t wore citizens support “President Trump” than oppose him. So who really is trying to usurp democracy? I say the demented minority press. These people want a new violent uncivil war.
If the Filthadelphia Inquirer went up in flames America would be greatly improved.
They don’t seem to realize that is the big hole in their argument. If what they were saying were really true they’d be too scared to say it. They don’t realize that normalizing the use of “Nazi” is over the top, if they were really dealing with Nazi’s they’d have witness people being lined up and executed.
It’s pathetic.
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This person doesn’t live in the same world that I do!
Imagine the outcome if leftists, who eschew all guns and quake in their shoes if one of their kids bites a pop tart into a gun shape, provoke a civil war.
“Little Willy” (I don’t know that for a fact) is just the first of today’s long line of foaming-at-the-mouth Leftists. Rage, anger and hatred is all the Left has left to offer normal Americans.
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