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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Antifa founders identified! [View all]RVN VET71
(3,068 posts)Dad saw action in North Africa and Italy -- and was enroute to the Pacific when the bombs were dropped. So he was spared the certain carnage that an invasion of Japan would have caused. I hope your Dad survived the war. The men and women of that generation had a lot to tell us, to teach us.
I know what my Dad thought of fascists. He hated them. I also know how he felt about killing. He hated it.
Concerning fascists, he didn't dwell on the subject but when it came up, he left no doubt what his feelings were.
Concerning killing, he didn't tell me about the nazi soldiers he killed until after I returned home from Vietnam. Later he angrily and loudly lectured my cousin about the value of human life when my cousin began bragging about the "gooks" he'd killed in Vietnam.
If he were alive today -- he passed 30 years ago -- he'd be in total agreement with me about the traitors and cowards running the government and destroying the institutions of democracy.
But that Antifa generation had the backing of the United States Government when they went off to fight Nazism in Europe and Imperial Fascism in the Pacific. Here, today, antifa is a dream, inchoate and lacking unified leadership. The Republicans are all fascists and cowards, the SCOTUS is led by Roberts and the 5 conservative goof balls in SCOTUS who have no respect for their Country or its founding principles. The Dems are mostly stuttering their opposition, nervously, and calling the Fascists "uncooperative" when they should be calling them -- all of them -- Fascist usurpers of democracy. (The Dems! I cannot and will never forgive them for what they did to Al Franken. But the Dem Party is all we have to fight the Fascists: it's like the Polish cavalry against the Nazi Panzers -- with the exception worth noting that the Polish cavalry acted with defiant, if hopeless, courage.)
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