Invoking the specter of Nazi Germany, Obama warns against complacency
Source: ChicagoBusiness.com.
December 06, 2017
GREG HINZ
American democracy is fragile, and unless care is taken it could follow the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Mixed in with many softer comments, that was the somewhat jaw-dropping bottom line of Barack Obama last night as, in a Q&A session before the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicagoan who used to be president dropped a bit of red meat to a hometown crowd that likely is a lot closer to him than the man whose name never was mentioned: President Donald Trump.
Obama's comments came after a series of playful questions from moderator and Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobsonin the great Batman vs. Superman debate, for instance, we learned Obama sides with Batmanbefore she eventually asked him what he's learned as a world citizen of sorts.
One thing he's learned is that "things don't happen internationally if we don't put our shoulder to the wheel," Obama said, speaking of the U.S. "No other country has the experience and bandwith and ideals. . . .If the U.S. doesn't do it, it's not going to happen."
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cilla4progress
(26,092 posts)Here. If he called it, he called it right!
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)But thanks for stating the obvious. We're already there, pretty much glaringly obvious.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)A Republic, if you can keep it. .
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLINat the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberationin the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylands delegates to the Convention.
Note that it will not be democracy that fails us. If we vote to do away with government of, by and for the people, it will happen.