Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did it happen, and could it happen again? Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard dive into the history and circumstances that allowed Hitler to become Führer of Germany.

There are two POS's running for office.

Neither one is qualified to be POTUS

who was sticking cigars in his intern in the Oval Office while being impeached?

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,"

I'm sure our NATO allies feel great about comments and stories like this.....

All I stated was that this was the best the dems could come up with.

He could stick cigars up his own ass for all I care, brainiac. I care nothing about religion, religious values, etc.

So, I have to fervently believe in HRC to vote for her?

moosedrool -- "BELIEVE ME, I'VE SEEN IT ALL"

How has the GOP fallen so far

GOP Platform Supports Transferring Western Public Lands To States

The new language in the platform, approved Monday, states:

“Congress shall immediately pass universal legislation providing for a timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to states. We call upon all national and state leaders and representatives to exert their utmost power and influence to urge the transfer of those lands, identified in the review process, to all willing states for the benefit of the states and the nation as a whole. The residents of state and local communities know best how to protect the land where they work and live.”

Don't nuke it, just start a new thread and link it to the old one.

...sadly i think the US needs to go thru this... may just be the innoculation the US needs...

Trust me, the Trump movement is one of those movements that convert democracies into regimes.

I also think that most of us want the same, a safe place where we can live and raise our children. Anything more is a bonus.

... sible (Billary)

Uh, you clearly never studied the constitution or how our government works.

“It’s nuts and completely indicative of who he is,” Mr. Schwartz said. “There’s no basis of anything legal. I suspect that Donald Trump called up his chief legal officer and said, ‘Go after that guy and do whatever you have to do.’ ”

And he's a God damned climber :-)

Never trust a man who claims to be a self-made man.

Taking the advice of anyone else..whether on this site or anywhere else.....is grossly irresponsible.

Kris, I didn't say that. LOL

Fruc....that's entirely none of your business.

Being Responsible

Just listen to Gary Johnson for a few seconds.....

a vote for him is a throwaway vote.

The best thing about our elections is this......Its a secret ballot.

Where does Trump stand now Dirt? Well, he would have been in good standing if he hadn't stepped on his dik this morning and thrown away a good portion of Cruz's supporters while going on endlessly belittling Ted and by extension his base voters. Pence, who was standing behind him during the diatribe, should have given him a swift kick in the ass. Ahead two steps and backsliding one and a half.

Pondering these things it occurred to me that if the Orange Turd somehow makes it into the Gold House I might as well just say f*#k it to doing all that sh#t. It won't matter. It'll be an uphill battle to fight for what is right while we march towards world war 3.

If trump gets elected, the environmental/conservation movement will be set back fifty years.

I think after we see an independent run in the middle instead of far left or far right we'll see independent voters and moderate voters give them a real shot

You are totally mind controlled.

Taking advice of anyone else ... is grossly irresponsible.

If trump gets elected, the environmental/conservation movement will be set back fifty years.

John Anderson 1980 ring a bell? Didn't work then, unlikely to work now. Anderson drew from the middle, and got blown out.

But the artists have the right to complain and say THEY don't approve.

things are more polarized now and both parties seem to be moving towards the extremes.

Donald Trump Is a Unique Threat to American Democracy

“You feel that you’re this country’s rightful owners. There’s only one problem with that: This country isn’t yours. You don’t own it. It never was. There is no ‘real America.’

You don’t own it. You don’t own patriotism, you don’t own Christianity, you sure as hell don’t own respect for the bravery and sacrifice of military, police and firefighters. Trust me.

I saw a lot of people on the convention floor in Cleveland with their ‘Blue Lives Matter’ rhetoric who either remained silent or actively fought against the 9/11 First Responders Bill reauthorization. I see you, and I see your...”

...who either remained silent or actively fought against the 9/11 First Responders' Bill re-authorization. I see you, and I see your...”

Like most Americans, I'm very tired of the status quo.

Tim Kaine this morning still whining about Trump saying McCain is not a hero?

OMFG! is that all they got?

When it comes to McCain it doesn't matter to this American.

One can certainly find fault with McCain, however, the insult was much broader than McCain, it pointedly was directed towards ANY service person who was a POW.

but you can no longer call yourself a patriotic American if you still vote for Trump

Donald Trump is a piece of SH!T!!!...

He can fuk off and should stand down...

It's time EVERYONE understands that...

On the other hand, as a conservative, I grow weary of fellow middle-class conservatives acting as if it were possible simply to bootstrap your way out of poverty. My dad was able to raise my sister and me in the 1970s on a civil servant’s salary, supplemented by my mom’s small salary as a school bus driver. I doubt this would be possible today. You’re a conservative who has known poverty and powerlessness as well as wealth and privilege. What do you have to say to your fellow conservatives?

I think you hit the nail right on the head: we need to judge less and understand more. It’s so easy for conservatives to use “culture” as an ending point in a discussion–an excuse to rationalize their worldview and then move on–rather than a starting point. I try to do precisely the opposite in Hillbilly Elegy. This book should start conversations, and it is successful, it will.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

I think you hit the nail right on the head: we need to judge less and understand more.

It was Khrushchev's missile crisis.

Michael R. Bloomberg, who bypassed his own run for the presidency this election cycle, will endorse Hillary Clinton in a prime-time address at the Democratic convention and make the case for Mrs. Clinton as the best choice for moderate voters in 2016, an adviser to Mr. Bloomberg said.

The news is an unexpected move from Mr. Bloomberg, who has not been a member of the Democratic Party since 2000; was elected the mayor of New York City as a Republican; and later became an independent.

seriously, if you lefties think that trump is, in one or even two cycles, going to be able to transition the u.s. into some form of a hard or soft dictatorship, then it doesn't matter who gets in because your system has already failed and it's time to start preparing for actual revolution.

while it's stating the obvious, that's because there is a whole system of checks and balances and if you think that trump is going to be able to run amok over all of them, then there are bigger fish to fry than just trump.

seriously, if you lefties think that trump is, in one or even two cycles, going to be able to transition the u.s. into some form of a hard or soft dictatorship, then it doesn't matter who gets in because your system has already failed and it's time to start preparing for actual revolution.

President Trump could misplay his hand and get into a shooting war in the China sea.

regardless you'd have to convince me that hillary is less of a threat to world stability, in the long run,

outweighs the cost of the supreme court nominations.

"Get it? He does nothing!"...

Try telling that to Osama Bin Laden...

finally one last rant: nobody on this board seems to give a shIt that the dnc, that is supposed to be a neutral organization, has been proven, by the most recent wikileaks email dump, to be in bed with both hillary [proving the "bernie-bros" and anybody with open eyes correct] and many media services as well [my personal favorite so far was the "agreement" a politico reporter had with the dnc to have them review his story before even his editors had and which along with everything else that was shown proves at least to some degreee the ole smoking duck and fox network correct regarding their left wing media bias and cia news network claims]

"How are the American people ever going to know what the truth is?

How are they going to know what the truth is about what we are doing and have done over the years?"

"We operate in secrecy, we deal in deception and disinformation, and then we burn our files."

this is who We The People should be vot'in for! they're the one's that deal with our lives. who give's a fuc whose president, he/she's more concerned with the rest of the world anyway.....

"Get it? He does nothing!"...

Try telling that to Osama Bin Laden...
+++++++++++++++++++++

Locker, he was the sitting prez as Navy SEAL's destroyed Obama, so Obama gets the praise?

Obama is rad beacuse he got Osama? That's his achievement?

They killed all seal team 6 because they were afraid they would spill the beans on the bullsh!t Bin Laden ops .......

Craig, communism and socialism (by Lenin’s definition) are ideologies born of the left. Totalitarianism has no ideology.

The US govt. should fight a totalitarian war against illusion.

The Soviet Union would still be around today if not for corruption.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-unique-threat-to-american-democracy/2016/07/22/a6d823cc-4f4f-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html

bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA

Jul 24, 2016 - 12:14pm PT
Kennedy was gonna Make America Great Again, he had vision.

Today he would be moderate Republican, even conservative. A little cliche, but to all the millennials asking where their American Dream is?

I paraphrase Kennedy:

"Ask not what this country can do for you, but what YOU LOSERS are gonna do for this country, other than whine!"

A conservative lives as if it's survival of the fittest
A Liberal lives to make sure he's got his brothers back.

Let the horse out of the barn, and evolution just happens in response to the events that influence life.

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled--but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
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No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!

all Americans are my brothers, I want my Government to have THEIR back.

Politicians in the USA are WAY MORE corrupt than they were in Poland, for sure.

There is nothing more dangerous than a true believer - and a true believer is one who has been encouraged to express his - usually suppressed - darkest instincts. That's what DT is doing.

Pople in the USA have no clue how easy their life is.

^^^ where do you think evolution gained it's start? from "conservatism" or "chaos"?

Pople in the USA have no clue how easy their life is. But, we tend to envy other people, than to be happy with what we have. In the article cited by Ksolem, they complain that a lot of poor people use illegal drugs. As somebody who knows what "poor" means, I almost started laughing. How those poor people can afford buying drugs in the first place??? You call them poor?

You seriously can't try to equate an ideology to a biological event

I think we humanely owe these people food, shelter, and guidance.

interestingly, i have never heard a blue whale, porpoise, lion, or chimp say anything like that