Disturbing Goebbels quote from 1928

[anamnua]

The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.

Not all dictatorships are established by coup d’état; some come to power through democratic processes including elections.

[Bluethroughu]

1. This was handed down to the Koch brothers from their family...

This why we have Project 2025 from their Heritage Foundation, nothing but Seditious planning against the Constitution and our Democracy.

[markodochartaigh]

3. The Dutch, they didn't send their best.

"Harry’s political leanings ranged from conservative to libertarian, a trait continued by his grandchildren. Harry in his paper’s editorials was opposed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal proposals. He was especially opposed to the Social Security proposals, bank regulation, and was strongly opposed to the workers’ rights to form unions to improve their working conditions."

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/harry-koch

[soldierant]

4. It's a real relief to learn that the family was not German -

my maternal grandmother's maiden name was Koch, and I was afraid we might be related. I suppose we still might be, but it would very, very remote.

[markodochartaigh]

2. "A

great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”

Will and Ariel Durant

[rampartd]

6. +1 for the durant quote

[boonecreek]

5. That's how it works.

The authoritarians use democracy to destroy democracy.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Have you ever seen anyone who personifies evil more than Stephen Miller, apart from Joseph Goebbels

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[Journeyman]

8. Yes. Martin Bormann. And Nikolai Yezhov . . .