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.....
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
this is eight years and one president off.
Precious snowflakes of this ilk are in for an even ruder awakening when they discover that they are the source of all of the excesses they claim to oppose.
This is all made up nonsense and I for one refuse to see my country run by these scoundrels.
Or if they think we’re all retarded or in walkers and wheelchairs or are missing all our teeth.
Yet another horrible leftist calling for unrest to ‘get back’ at a duly elected President. The only treason or sedition I see is with leftists. They really are horrible people.
JoMa
How many regulations has this "authoritarian" eliminated?
a free press,
Where can we find one of those? The one we have is a wholly owned subsidiary if the DNC.
a new [South Korean] president (who’s conducted a Nobel Prize-worthy campaign for peace on the Korean Peninsula, by the way)
Do we know of any American involved in ending the Korean War after all of these years and denuclearizing the peninsula?
oh sure. Let’s have a general strike. It’s a socialist/communist tactic that has worked so well in third-world countries to keep them firmly third world. Virtue signaling for egocentric fools.
They can quit not working!
It takes a special kind of ignorance to write this and even more special to believe (unfortunately I have several members of my family that do)
I have seen a few stories where the puppet masters behind all this anger are trying to control it but I am afraid the beast they created has gotten loose and we are headed for some violent times.
Here, we have Trump is successfully talking, not bombing - N. Korea being Trump's triumphant Exhibit A.
More dialogue was always an unfailing "plus" to the Left. Remember the frigging Doomsday Clock?
All these attacks on the President - so much manufactured bull crap - I grow real tired of it and I'm sure Trump feels exactly the same way (as does at least half the Country).....
If Trump is a dictator, how come these SJW lunatics haven’t been rounded up and incarcerated or shot?
As a former Democrat myself Thank God I left before the kool-aid could turn my brain into absolute mush like Will Bunch’s has. I hope their meltdown continues. The total political defeat of these people from coast to coast is what will save this nation!
If this isn't planned, it sure is one hell of a nice coinkiddink.
Democrats talking about ‘treason’ is quite the projection.
bingo.
Yeah, a lot of people will be affected if a bunch of journalists go “on strike”
I love it when these writers try to hit rhetorical highs...only to write screeds.
Let’s have a general strike. Tomorrow. I could use a long weekend.
You left off the “Barf Alert” label.
Justice is coming this November!!!!
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