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By the way I'm not talking about Brexit as a thing as making me feel less British. We leave, we leave, whatever.

I'm on about the aftermath. The post-fact era (especially this total turd with anger at the courts) and the apparent justification that outbursts at foreigners are okay because we voted out.

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Absoltely terrifying.

I'll be called a drama queen but:

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"I sometimes fear that 
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress 
worn by grotesques and monsters 
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. 

 

Fascism arrives as your friend. 
It will restore your honour, 
make you feel proud, 
protect your house, 
give you a job, 
clean up the neighbourhood, 
remind you of how great you once were, 
clear out the venal and the corrupt, 
remove anything you feel is unlike you...

 

It doesn't walk in saying, 
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."

Read that paragraph and try to tell me that isn't **** happening?

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1 hour ago, tonyh29 said:

Florida goes to Clinton

 

game over 

Well they say an hour is a long time in politics ....

Trump lead increasing in Florida with 94% of the vote in 

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Especially this bit.

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Fascism arrives as your friend. 
It will restore your honour, 
make you feel proud, 
protect your house, 
give you a job, 
clean up the neighbourhood, 
remind you of how great you once were, 
clear out the venal and the corrupt, 
remove anything you feel is unlike you...

Line for line, this is literally what is happening in the States at the moment. It makes Brexit look like a minor gaffe.

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1 minute ago, villakram said:

@StefanAVFC your being a lot ridiculous

How?

Read that line by line and tell me that isn't what's happening with Trump?

Fascism arrives as your friend. 
It will restore your honour, - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
make you feel proud, - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
protect your house, - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
give you a job, - "unemployee rates are up" (they're not)
clean up the neighbourhood, - "crime rates are up" (they're not)
remind you of how great you once were, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
clear out the venal and the corrupt, **** THE ESTABLISHMENT, CROOKED HILLARY
remove anything you feel is unlike you... BUILD THE WALL, BAN ALL MUSLIMS

Call me ridiculous all you want, but I bet they called people like me ridiculous in 1930's Germany.

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Just now, StefanAVFC said:

How?

Read that line by line and tell me that isn't what's happening with Trump?

Fascism arrives as your friend. 
It will restore your honour, - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
make you feel proud, - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
protect your house, - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
give you a job, - "unemployee rates are up" (they're not)
clean up the neighbourhood, - "crime rates are up" (they're not)
remind you of how great you once were, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
clear out the venal and the corrupt, **** THE ESTABLISHMENT, CROOKED HILLARY
remove anything you feel is unlike you... BUILD THE WALL, BAN ALL MUSLIMS

Call me ridiculous all you want, but I bet they called people like me ridiculous in 1930's Germany.

Trump did not create this, that you are only appreciating the lack of clothing on the empire now is great, welcome to the party.

Remember BushI&II/Thatcher/Reagan... oh, that's right they were concentrating on doing things that didn't impact you so you didn't really care all that much. This Trump will end the world thing is naive embarrassing drivel.

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1 minute ago, Davkaus said:

It's pretty scary times, with Trump this close, and the poll results of far right parties across Europe.

Isn't that a lesson ignored from history though ... 

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Try reading the posts before labelling people's opinions 'drivel'

Trump himself won't end the world.

Brexit on it's own won't end the world

I'm not even talking about him as a politician or Brexit as an event.

I'm talking about the impact of these things on the popular opinion. That it brings nastiness and hatred out of people's heads into public opinion. It happened after Brexit. Hate crime was up. Now we have politicians calling for 100,000 to march on independent judges for simply doing their job. How isn't that scary?

We're lurching further to far right as time goes on, and the last time that happened in Europe, well.

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