[conspire] OT (geopolitics) So much winning

[Elise Scher]

I am Jewish and starting to worry too.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM Josef Grosch <jgrosch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/20/25 09:08, Rev Anon wrote:
> > We were warned for years.  Back when the voting rights bill got zeroed
> > by an ass senator from WV, we knew this was coming.  Greg Palast
> > documented the millions who got their ballots purged putting Republicans
> > in charge.  (there's a little known government agency that counts such
> > things as purged ballots)  C'est la vie. Democracy is over get used to
> > it.  Perhaps the view looks dark but we can hope the west coast will
> > unite and secede from the fascist new fed?  West coast exit!  Get your
> > pitch-forks ready!
>
>
> One of the hallmarks on the Americans is we DO NOT listen to warnings,
> and when it comes to pass what we were warned about happens,  we are
> SHOCKED! SHOCKED! "Why didn't anyone warn us?"
>
> I grew up next door to Holocaust survivors, Mr & Mrs. Finegold. They met
> in a Red Cross camp after liberation. Mrs. Finegold was one of the
> people who had escaped from Sobibor and did not talk about what
> happened. Mr. Fiegold was in Dachau and "Yadvegor" ( I have never been
> able to find a reference to that camp, I guess I mis-heard the name ).
> Mr. Finegold was a lawyer in Berlin in the 1920's and 30's and had a
> front row seat to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of
> the Nazis. In the summer Mr. Finegold would sit in his back yard playing
> chess and passing out candy to the neighborhood children. To get the
> candy the children would have to sit and listen to Mr. Finegold telling
> stories about what had happened.
>
> For the last 10 years or so, every time Trump and/or the MAGA people
> start talking I've been thinking, "I've heard this before." History does
> not repeat but it sorta rhymes. It looks like the Trump people are
> following the authoritarian playbook. I'm re-reading history of the rise
> of the Nazis to try and guess where and how far this is going. My wife
> and I are Jewish so we are a bit skittish. Any time authoritarian start
> making lists of people they don't like, the Jews always get added to the
> list.
>
>
> Josef
>
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