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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/opinions/capitol-attack-beer-hall-putsch-authoritarianism-weaver/index.html

"The darker and more likely truth is that American democracy is in grave danger despite Trump's election defeat in November. In 1923, a fringe, right-wing party in the democratic German Weimar Republic attempted a coup that history remembers as the Beer Hall Putsch. It was amateurish in its execution and quickly crushed by authorities. Democracy was saved...or so it seemed at the time.
The Weimar government's response toward the perpetrators of the coup, however, was timid to say the least. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party leader who plotted the putsch, was convicted of treason and served less than a year of his five-year sentence. With Germany reeling from hyperinflation and a shattered economy, Hitler was on his way to becoming the dictator of Germany, the initiator of World War II and the mass murderer of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
Our republic cannot afford to ignore the possibility that January 6 represents the same warning sign of creeping right-wing authoritarianism in our own democracy. Our government must act swiftly by seeking the maximum punishment under the law for all those who smashed their way into the Capitol. This is the moment for resolve, not handwringing. The republic must make clear that it will defend itself from this existential threat."

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But... but... but they canā€™t really legally legislate ā€˜cause we canā€™t see their hands on the Bible and some of them maybe didnā€™t even really say the right words. I can read lips. One of them was pledging allegiance to Satan.

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@1 Garb Garbler for the WIN! Agreed and seconded. And thank you, too, for providing the informative link.:)

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Reassuring to see young women of color like Sen. T'wina Nobles joining our distinguished state congressional delegation, with hopefully many more minority newcomers in the years that lie ahead, as Washington State and America gradually expel this fascist, intolerant Trumpism and all the evil intellectual retrograde it portends. Let us continue to vote for women and minority candidates, and eschew these hairy ogres who represent business as usual. Support younger, more socially attuned candidates and displace all the old illiterate Republican weirdos like that Culp clodhopper, who drive around on their tractors naked and harass minorities. In fact, Culp is so ignorant and inbred, he didnā€™t even bother to submit a Voterā€™s pamphlet statement when he supposedly ā€œranā€ against Governor Inslee, who is a total progressive gubernatorial stud and proceeded to flatten him like an aluminum can runover by an earthmover. Hopefully we can continue to expel some of the ignorant crackers serving out in the desert, as educational levels continue to increase, thanks to Democratic Party policies that encourage free thought and intellectual development, not disturbing Freudian gun fetishes and adherence to foolish rumors and mythologies. Consider the sea change in electoral behavior we saw in usually conservative domains like Arizona and Georgia. You can feel the country and our beautiful green state gently swaying leftward, away from anger, ignorance and inbred hillbilliism, with the inauguration of Biden-Harris in the offing, and the delightful prospect of Trump, the orange screeching howler-monkey being extricated from office in the most dehumanizing fashion, shaved with an industrial-grade livestock shaver, sprayed for lice, swabbed with alcohol and injected with mind-altering sedatives, forced to wear an orange jumpsuit that coordinates with his oddball orangeish crown, and sent off to federal prison with the rest of the detritus and miscreants of his administration for an extended period. No Presidential Library or lifetime pension for your, Mr. Trump, only life in prison.


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