alternet.org — "Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag." Is democracy slowly disappearing? Hitler and Franco did it in Germany and Spain. Is Bush doing it in the USA?
Dec 29, 2007 View in Crawl 4
osbjmgDec 30, 2007
If he learned this in history class, why do you need to bring your grandfather as a character witness?In all seriousness, I don't know why people think this can't happen today. Don't be ignorant guys, this can and is happening right now.
cmackattackDec 31, 2007
Why the hate on the young and naive? If anything, I would think that the older should be happy to have a a refreshment of people wanting to acknowledge and fight oppression. Moreover, the young could and should be pissed at the old for allowing this to happen or continue to happen....I fail to follow this logic of, oh it's not that bad! Or, oh, this is nothing new! Don't worry...go back to sleep. f**k that! New issues, old issues, measured as a little bad, or measured as a lot of bad...f**k that! f**k that! f**k that!As Bob Marley said; Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
aadyssJan 1, 2008
A beliver in personal resonsibiliy. Sorry momomathew. These people will never accept responsibiplity for anything. It would require much too much effort on their part. Big "L" on their foreheads.
adamgorleyJan 3, 2008
I'm not sure if you understand that it's almost precisely your attitude of "I will probably just leave" that has caused the current lack of democracy/citizenship. Why not stand up for your rights and "wake up this country" yourself?
evocatusJan 6, 2008
Mother Democracy + Father Capitalism, have always resulted in facist children. You would think that short of turning hard Communist, we would get it all figured out....eventually.
erich100Feb 3, 2008
The techniques have changed a bit, but the result is the same.
groovydooFeb 7, 2008
iLovemaria, wake up! Under apartheid in South Africa, the blacks during that time had the highest standard of living of any and all blacks ion the continent of Africa. Should they have remain a faithful, pissed on, underclass with no access to to clean water, fair wages or health care? Just because the USA is the best; in your eyes that is, are you saying we Americans should take it albeit Fascist and all just because it is the most affluent country?