Matt Bors for December 16, 2015

While the last panel was LOL-funny, I think there’s a deeper message here. The constant refrain that we should always vote for the lesser evil (and be happy with it, loser!), the wish to let inertia rule, to accept worsening conditions, to not make waves, is at its heart the mindset of sheep.

They are already shouting “Sieg heil” at his rallies. Whatza matter, isn’t English good enough for them?

I agree with what I heard Whoopi Goldberg say this morning; “It isn’t Trump who scares me, it’s his followers”. Thoughts of the thirties are rational analysis.

He is correct though – have to use the words the right way or they will just lose meaning.

People made fun of Hitler in the early 30s. Trump is the face of a dangerous ideology in American politics.

The US concentration camps were a product of the California Board of Realtors wanting to grab cheap real estate, Hoover’s racist FBI, and people who believe anything, flooding the government with lies on top of the panic. It is interesting that Japanese ancestry in Hawaii did not go to the camps – it would have collapsed the economy. Canada was forced to take action, but only had them move east of the coastal range (without barbed wire and machine guns), took their property as crown assets, and returned it after the war.

“Those people don’t look at all Japanese. Why are they in FDR’s internment camp?”So, you would agree that repeating one of FDR’s biggest mistakes would be a bad thing. Why don’t you explain that to your fellow conservatives who are ready to round up people based on ethnicity & religion?Or, is this just another cynical post to find any Democrat from the last 200 years to deflect attention from the shameful debacle that is the current GOP?

Hippogriffl. Our neighbors, American citizens who came from Japan, had all there assets seized and sold at auction when they were sent to the camps. A local banker bought all those assets, house, pottery, land. When they were released from the camps, he sold all their property back to them, for ONE DOLLAR!! THAT was a true American. (BTW: his two sons both fought in the Pacific theater, and thankfully, both survived the war.)

WE need to reflect on those values today, and demand anyone seeking our support for the Presidency, understand those same values of humanity, not hate and bigotry, as we hear from “the right” (radical right) today.

^BTW, hippogriff, I fought in Viet Nam, and my son fought in Bosnia against “radical Muslims”, and "radical Christians from Serbia, and in Iraq, as well as serving in other nations around the world I can’t mention.

Neither of us is able to say we “hated” those enemies, even though not fond of being shot at. WE were in THEIR countries, an important point to consider with all our foreign interventions, and strive for hegemony across the world.

Prisons are a ‘gun-free zone’..

Good argument, as long as you posit that he WOULD build internment camps but would NOT end elections. Add some unicorns and you’ve got a Nobel.