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Brainstormy

(2,380 posts) Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:10 AM Aug 2017

A rapid, rabid regression of history

I'd been saying for a while that the Republican assault on women's rights had started to make me feel we were back in the 60s, but the racism that has been stoked under Trump seemed reminiscent of the 50s. Trump's "fire and fury" rhetoric can't help but make you realize that the nuclear horror of the 40s is a real possibility. Now this, in Charlottesville. The 30s! A good plot for a movie. Except it's real.

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A rapid, rabid regression of history (Original Post) Brainstormy Aug 2017 OP

How long before we are back in the nineteen-teens? Aristus Aug 2017 #1

Republicans are great at protecting the interest of the rich and everyone else can go to hell.... dubyadiprecession Aug 2017 #2

Aristus

(66,325 posts)

1. How long before we are back in the nineteen-teens?

Reply to Brainstormy (Original post)

Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:14 AM

Aug 2017

With a horrific, devastating, seemingly unending war that grinds up lives, resources, treasure, and hope, and ends by destabilizing entire continents, leading to spreading fascism, dictatorship, and territoriality...

dubyadiprecession

(5,706 posts)

2. Republicans are great at protecting the interest of the rich and everyone else can go to hell....