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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Sat Aug 10, 2019, 08:05 AM Aug 2019

Could this quote be any more relevant today?

History repeats itself.
Has to.
No-one listens.
Steve Turner

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We (still) live in scary times (Original Post) Soph0571 Aug 2019 OP

(15,751 posts)

1. It took a long time to get people to listen to the so obvious Nazi threats. As late as 1940,

Sat Aug 10, 2019, 08:32 AM

Aug 2019

even the heroic, powerful, FDR had to stand on the isolationist plank in an election year.

Hard to get people to listen.