Author Sharon E. Cathcart ✅Apr 17, 2023

Quote from article: Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election.

My thoughts: A whole bunch of people, myself included, started pointing out parallels between the Trump-era GOP and the Nazis well before he was elected. We were accused of employing hyperbole, and told to "give him a chance."

Well, just call me Cassandra ... because here we are.

Just. Like. I. Said. We. Would. Be.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/whats-behind-the-gops-war-against?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

What’s Behind the GOP’s War Against Democracy?

And are rightwing billionaires who want more, more, more money willing to make common cause with bigots, fascists, and wannabee killers to get it?

The Hartmann Report
Show threadThreadbaneApr 17, 2023
@sharonecathcart
You think you've had tough row to hoe, I felt the same way about Reagan! And I was right too! It's been a long fall, but the tripwire seems to have been school desegregation, which indirectly destroyed public AND private education systems because half the white population refused to cooperate - and still does. Inferior, anti-scientific religious and private k-12 cropped up everywhere, public schools were defunded and here we are, a nation of racist nitwits.
Show threadAuthor Sharon E. Cathcart ✅

@Threadbane I was in high school when Reagan was elected, and oh-so-proudly apolitical.

Heh.

I got older and came to know better.

Apr 17, 2023 at 8:04pmWeb