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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 12:18 PM Jan 2018

My Degree Of Unbelievability Gets More Profound & Deep By The Hour. And terrifying As Well.

If you have ever witnessed something so unbelievable that you cannot imagine seeing it then you might understand our national dilemma. It is like someone who witnessed what Hitler did. He seemed to go to levels no one on the planet out imagine as the events unfolded through the 30's and 40's. Or the unbelievability about what Japan did at Pearl and how they took over so much territory.

Trump and the GOP is the same way. They find new ways to shock and stun us every day.

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My Degree Of Unbelievability Gets More Profound & Deep By The Hour. And terrifying As Well. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2018 OP
You're right, it is like we are in some new reality that we can't understand. madaboutharry Jan 2018 #1
I am honestly feeling traumatized by this fucktard and his administration. smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #2
I remember a book about how/why the average German got swept up in Hitler's reign. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2018 #3

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
1. You're right, it is like we are in some new reality that we can't understand.
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 12:21 PM
Jan 2018

Every day there is some new shock to the system and before we have a moment to process it, Trump comes up with something else. It feels like the 60% of country is like a boxer on the ropes.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. I am honestly feeling traumatized by this fucktard and his administration.
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 12:38 PM
Jan 2018

I don't think we can take much more of this. This man is evil incarnate.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. I remember a book about how/why the average German got swept up in Hitler's reign.
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 01:05 PM
Jan 2018

And it is exactly like what is happening now.
Those interviewed said each incremental step was followed by an even more surprising, shocking step, so that the previous step was seen, in retrospect, not as bad as the current one. Thus step by step, what went before was normalized, became the event to compare to the next outrage.
and the propaganda about "fake news" as, over time, legitimate news was silenced.
So in a gradual, then quicker fashion, the systems of civilization were taken over, many of the objectors fled the country or were killed.

a reminder that Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, he had 6 years to consolidate internal power before he started gobbling up neighboring countries.



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