As the United States hovers at the edge of fascism, the history of Germany can help.

William Lindsey :toad:

@feisty_lemming It might affect a very few, but, honestly, not many, in my view. I say this as someone raised in the Southern Baptist church in the very evangelical (and right-wing) culture of the American South, who has two first cousins who are Southern Baptist ministers. I know my people. They are not pliable or willing to be informed or reconsider their long list of bad choices from defending slavery to welcoming Jim Crow to combating desegregation and women's and LGBTQ rights.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Sofijania Well, there's all that — and there's a nice piece of waterlogged swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you if you're interested. P.S. The plural is not formed by slapping an 's on the end of a single noun.

William Lindsey :toad:

@CassandraVert So well-stated and well-noted.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse I do, too. I keep in mind how they nattered on about the big red wave coming in 2020, and it never arrived.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse I will keep doing all I can in my own little way to fight — and am happy to know others are fighting alongside me.

William Lindsey :toad:

@KathleenC I very much agree. Thank you for making these points so clearly.

William Lindsey :toad:

@beingreal I very much hope you're right about that.

William Lindsey :toad:

@jwcph I think it's one thing to say that making these points won't turn GOP voters towards any light, and another to say that it's "too late" to make these points. I think they have to be made over and over and I'm grateful to Timothy Snyder for doing so when the media have been mealy-mouthed about all of this.

William Lindsey :toad:

@DRBLD2009 Not sure if you're responding to that statement by Jess Piper or something else.

William Lindsey :toad:

@tantramar @fsinn Touché — wonderful skewering of that tired, mendacious mainstream media meme of "economic anxiety" as the heart of the Trump voter's universe.

William Lindsey :toad:

@SherBeareth I say the same every time I read something he says that's worth considering.

William Lindsey :toad:

@the5thColumnist Indeed.

William Lindsey :toad:

@pjs Thank you. I'll read this with interest.

Chris Mackay 🇨🇦

@wdlindsy @fsinn “economic anxiety” — that’s the term I was half-remembering and flailing about for. You got the idea even though I didn’t fully land it.

William Lindsey :toad:

@stuartb @Burnt_Veggies Same here.

William Lindsey :toad:

@tantramar @fsinn Ah, but you did land it! I knew right away the meme you were highlighting.

JustRosy

@wdlindsy And on top of that, here's what else they're voting for:

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Attached: 1 image Future Headline: Trump's Mass-Deportation Economy FAILURE Brings SOCIALISM to USA! https://calendar.ucsc.edu/event/japanese_american_farming_experiences_prior_to_and_during_wwii The Humiliating Wrath of Anti-Immigration Economics on Ordinary US Citizens: https://justrosy3.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/the-humiliating-wrath-of-anti-immigration-economics-on-ordinary-us-citizens/

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William Lindsey :toad:

@JustRosy Thank you for that valuable reminder. Brings to mind George Takei's painful accounts along with a dramatic telling of his family's interment at Rohwer camp in Arkansas. That was such a shameful period in American history, one of many such shameful episodes.

JustRosy

@wdlindsy Thank YOU for the reminder! I knew I forgot to include something! He's the whole reason I first found out about it! It wasn't in my childhood history books at all. Lemme go fix that!

William Lindsey :toad:

@JustRosy You're welcome. Because I grew up in and live in Arkansas, reading what was doing to Takei and his family is even more painful, since they were sent to a camp in Arkansas. A neighbor of mine discovered at her college in Arkansas a large cache of artwork produced by the Japanese internees in Arkansas, and did a valuable service in presenting this artwork to the whole world as an artistic chronicle of the years Japanese Americans spent in camps here.