The frequency of hate crimes Has gone up- and people don’t feel the need to be ashamed anymore- sort of like when Uncle Adolf started targeting the Jews as ‘other’. I keep thinking of Santayana’s line; ‘Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it’. The last time a demagogue took over a democracy, he spent his first term packing the courts and taking over the police with his stooges, who then made everything he was doing perfectly ‘Legal’…. and 6 yrs from the time he was first elected, he had outlawed elections and taken the nation to war.Does any of that first part about packing the courts and putting his flunkies in charge of the police sound familiar….?And Weimar had a really Wonderful Constitution, too- on paper
The frequency of hate crimes Has gone up- and people don’t feel the need to be ashamed anymore- sort of like when Uncle Adolf started targeting the Jews as ‘other’. I keep thinking of Santayana’s line; ‘Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it’. The last time a demagogue took over a democracy, he spent his first term packing the courts and taking over the police with his stooges, who then made everything he was doing perfectly ‘Legal’…. and 6 yrs from the time he was first elected, he had outlawed elections and taken the nation to war.Does any of that first part about packing the courts and putting his flunkies in charge of the police sound familiar….?And Weimar had a really Wonderful Constitution, too- on paper