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soldierant

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5. I can't remember things this dark before in mylifetime. But my parents could.
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:56 PM
Oct 2024

They lived through the Great Deprssion and World War II (and also World War I, but ntey were like 11 and 12 when it ended), and also through Joe McCarthy's purge (which I vaguely remember, only because the HUAC carried it on for a while.) It got a whole lot better after that before it got worse again starting in 1980.

There will always be fascists around. Some people just have that temperament, and it has nothing to do with right or left. We need to learn to deal wu=ith them befi=ore they solidify. I'm a huge fan of The Political Compass (a dot org site0If we could get it taught in secondary school civics, it might help. At the very leaqst we might could identify them early.

Assuming we survive this, it should be multiple generations before they start to get strong again. Those generations need to be taught how to idenyify the ttrned before they become too strong. That may be difficult, but not impossible.

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