Where the fuck are the Democrats?

[NNadir]

159. I'm here. I'm a Democrat. There is an advantage, in my view...

...to giving people what they asked for, as in the old adage, "Be careful what you ask for, you may get it."

The United States is about to experience a grotesque and unprecedented disaster, something all of us here opposed.

Hopefully our country's flirtation with fascism, even the embrace of it doesn't end up with Philadelphia ending up like Hamburg in 1945, New York looking like Dresden in that year, Washington looking like Tokyo in that year, and Charleston looking like Hiroshima in that year.

Nevertheless, Germany paid a price for those enthusiastic crowds depicted in Reifenstahl's 1935 "documentary" Triumph of the Will." Interstingly, by 1950 no one would confess to being in those filmed hysterical crowds, and yet the crowds existed.

Japan paid a price for confusing the Emporer will the source of the Universe.

Some Americans who confused Trump with their professed God Jesus, will pay for their confusion.

In Germany, in Japan, and indeed in Italy, there were innocents who suffered as well. Sophie Schall was beheaded. Bombs fell on Social Democrats.

There were of course collaborators who gave up. We will have our cases of Fritz von Papen. But we are here; we're here, and though it rains on the just and unjust alike, though bombs fall on them alike, we must have the courage, remain as true to ourselves as we can, and wait and work, each in our own way and time for a better day.

They, the fascists, will fail because nothing breeds incompetence like arrogance.