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Below is a sign posted in the U. S. Holocaust Museum
Early Warning signs of Fascism
Powerful and continuing nationalism
Disdain for human rights
Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
Supremacy of the military
Rampant sexism
Controlled mass media
Obsession with national security
Religion and government intertwined
Corporate power protected
Labor power suppressed
Disdain for intellectuals and the arts
Obsession with crime and punishment
Rampant cronyism and corruption
Fraudulent elections.
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Looks and sounds just like Trump!!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Gee, I wonder who this sounds like? 😔
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A very good piece very much to the point .
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/28/beware-another-reichstag-fire
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Looks and sounds like Obama, Bush 2, Clinton, Bush 1, Reagan, etc. . . .
Yes, many of those things have been going on for quite a while to set the state for the Salmon Swamp Monster
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set the stage ay ay ay
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Unfortunately Trump is a consequence, not a cause. All of the things on that list began quite some time ago.
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This hit the nail on the head so well it’s scary.
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A timely posting.
😎
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At a conference at the Holocaust Museum last summer, my fellow educators and I kept looking at each other in alarm as we were reminded about Hitler’s rise to power. I know it’s Godwin’s law, but there are a LOT of similarities.
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I have read a lot of Holocaust literature. I am an English teacher. More than that, I grew up knowing that I had Polish relatives who were enslaved in work camps by the Nazis. My uncles had their tattoos. I am a second generation American. My mother’s people were Polish. I abhore Trump and his Nazi ways.
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I did read somewhere that the only “reading” Trump has done consists of books about Hitler that were kept in a locked cabinet by his bed.
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I don’t think that any of those concerns did not exist before Trump,
all existed under the previous president(s) Obama, GW, et al.
The former Chairman of Avis once said that the President is the “towel boy”
of the Fortune 500 companies. It’s hard to know who is doing the anti Jewish
activities, but it does seem well organized, to systematically do all of that damage,
presenting an apparent face of anti Semitism.
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Joseph,
Your statement that the anti-Semitic bomb threats, vandalism, and cemetery descretaions are “well organized…presenting an apparent face of anti Semitism” is deeply and personally offensive to me. It is repellent to imply that Jews are desecrating their own cemeteries and sending bomb threats to their community centers. Do you think that the six million Jews who perished in the early 1940s were part of a Jewish plot to win sympathy. You disgust me. Go defile someone else’s blog. I never want to hear from you again.
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“Apparent face”?
Yes, Diane, that is anti-Semitism.
There is no “apparent” about it.
I assume that you have blocked him. As well you should have.
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He is blocked.
I don’t want racists or anti-Semites or other peddlers of hate on this blog. It is my living room and I kick out those who are vile.
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Good.
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