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Chris Ganger's avatar

“Americans” hate Neo Nazis.

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Tony B's avatar

Sadly, there are quite a few Neo-Nazis in this country.

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Leah Baum's avatar

Yes, the whole Republican Party are modern day Nazis.

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

Not so moderate many of them

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Josie Esquivel's avatar

Since FDR, alas.

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Chris Ganger's avatar

Yes, very sadly indeed. But liberals and democrats are still the majority. Just because the GOP lies more and they’re louder, doesn’t mean they are a majority. We’ve had fascist movements before. I must say, it is scary. I think we’re figuring out how to fight back. Hope is good.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

That should have been made clear by our ultimate disgust and disdain for Musk.

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Ray C's avatar

Hatred just feeds them. They LIKE your hatred.

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Robert Goldbach's avatar

Yes, as Michael Cohen said, hatred gives them a reason to exist.

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DW's avatar

They have Been here, They were here before WWII. It is the Fascist Party. It is in CA., Iceland believe it or not South America and Mexico. Argentina and Brazil harbored them. The FRIGGIN Roman Catholic Church helped them escape. It is in fact part of History.

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Chris Ganger's avatar

And? Are you suggesting that Americans are now wholly fascist? A history lesson on fascism doesn’t change the fact that we are an ANTIFA country. That is why we joined WWII. The nasty effect of years of getting bombarded by vicious FOX propaganda has emboldened fascism and brought it out from under the rocks. We are a kind nation and must fight it.

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DW's avatar

No NOT AT ALL and if this makes you angry it should. Everyone thinks this is something NEW. It has been here and while we were sleeping and living our daily lives As We Should be able too, this hate has been growing and learning to use our very Democracy against us. HISTORY is EVERYTHING!! Learn from it so we don't do it again. It is NOW being used against us. They are now trying very hard to burn those books and to deny the History that makes them look bad. Fascism is here in OUR White House and in OUR Congress. Learn that History it will in fact make you stronger, The Old Saying is True, Knowledge Is Power!

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DW's avatar

Ca. sorry Canada.

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AllieSpeak's avatar

I recommend everyone interested in political poetry read this guy’s work: https://open.substack.com/pub/krisfeliciano/p/anatomy-of-a-scapegoat-a-poem?r=6sp3l4&utm_medium=ios

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Steve's avatar

'Divide and conquer' is the oldest trick in the book.

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Christine's avatar

What brilliant piece of literature ! As a concerned Australian I am awed by your insight but alarmed by my total belief in what you’ve written.

Can America ever recover ? Ever heal ?

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Americans thought we had healed after the Civil War but the truth is that the Confederacy just went underground. "The South will rise again" has always been their rallying cry and they found themselves a leader in Donald J. Trump. Trump is NOT a President, he is a GRAND WIZARD.

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Paula G's avatar

Unfortunately I think you’re correct

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

It didn't go underground for long. A little more than a decade after the Civil War ended, the Old Confederacy was rising again. And they had no shortage of leaders before Trump came along. The white Southern Democrats worked overtime to prevent Black people from benefiting from the New Deal and Black veterans from benefiting from the GI Bill. After the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, those Southern Democrats became Republicans -- and helped elect Ronald Reagan, from whose administration we've never fully recovered.

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Mel's avatar

And we will likely never fully recover from this administration either. At least not in most of our lifetimes.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Almost certainly not in mine -- I'm in good health, but I'm also 74. This is one reason I get impatient with people who think this all began with Trump. I've been watching the decline and fall of the GOP since the onset of the Reagan administration, and it didn't really start there either.

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Robert Goldbach's avatar

I, too, recall the parade of manifestations: the John Birch Society, the George Wallace followers, Newt Gingrich's "Contract for America" (some referred to it pejoratively as the Contract "On" America), the Moral Majority, the Tea Party and on and on. It's a sinister, persistent trait in our society, where self-loathing breeds hostility toward others. Perhaps we can't defeat it entirely; but we MUST knock it down to size so that it never again runs our government and consumes our society.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Hell, you could even go back as far as the Nixon Administration. I mean the guy literally came up with the Southern Strategy and he was a full blown racist himself.

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Judy Sherwood's avatar

This level of fear and hatred has been smoldering under the surface for a very LONG time. It cannot be conquered or countered with logic - logic is in the thinking brain/frontal lobes. It's primal... firmly ensconced in the reptilian brain... inaccessible to logic.

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Sherry's avatar

You are 100% correct. I know living in California and briefly in Texas that people do not like the Mexicans. For insurance and food stamps and to welfare and all these programs that do not take care of them without a really good reason. It is not easy nor is it anywhere you wanna be being on food stamps or snap. And look what rump is trying to do to our snap benefits.I will join up with anything to stop this please let’s stop this.

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Bob Seemueller's avatar

Worse, Trump is Adolf Hitler reincarnated. The Nazi's in the 1930's learned from the KKK after 1865.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Even Shady Vance recognized Trump as the new Hitler before he sold his soul to him.

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Patris's avatar

We don’t hate each other. Some republicans like to think so. But guess what? We don’t even hate them. We simply want them to get the hell away from trying to do their version of ‘governing.’

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Eliana Pesola's avatar

I'm hopeful that we will recover, that our young generation will see through everything that it is happening and will come back with a new inside of what they want their country to be. This can't be it, it is very hard to believe that there were voters that wanted the Country we have now.

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Christine's avatar

There’s a lot of Youth protestation (GenZ) around the world right now - mostly from countries where the average age is low. GenZ is growing and these are the citizens of the future. There’s a song in the musical Les Miserables, warning of the dangers of ignoring “little people” !

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Let's not forget that "our young generation" includes many fans of the late Charlie Kirk.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

I think that anything is possible - it takes people willing on both sides. It may take many generations for it to take hold. Think of it as the rival gangs who have been enemies for many generations and then all of a sudden 'boy meets girl' and the fighting gangs must make peace to be able to share in future generations.

Sounds corny, but happens to be how many a battling bunch of people are finally brought together... not by force... not by coercion... but by a family, a baby, a new generation.

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WJB Motown's avatar

The Pedphile Protection Party is to far gone. The hatred is an endless list of people, places and things that is infinite. The cult will drink the Orange Kool-Aid at the drop of a Cankles overloaded Depends diaper.

You do not understand Narcissitic losers very well.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Possibly you are correct that this generation and generations to come are too far gone... but is it endless? How would we know? Somewhere down the line it is possible that it will get worked out one way or another... could be that the coastal and northern blue states will join Canada - that would take care of a lot it right there. Certainly the narcissistic losers won't be involved in sorting it out, that is for certain.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Major synconicity dude.......I just remembered that Justin Trudeau was having talks with California leaders duing Cankles O1.

Deprograming people that are cult followers and suffer from NPD.......is that even possible???

Many councellors will NOT try to help Narcissits!! They are basket cases.

They are so full of themselves and make a mockery of any rehab attempt

Going NO CONTACT is the way to save yourself from a NARC!!!

So it is back again to........Blue states should separate from Red States.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Yeah... you can't fix a narcissist. You can only stay away from them... unless... you want to screw with them. I've done both - stayed away from some, screwed with others.

Sometimes I wonder about the final outcome. What will it be?

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WJB Motown's avatar

The final outcome of this Orange disaster??? Right now it is hanging in the balance.....The good thing happening is that Cankls health is failing.

He is the (cough.choke hack) strongman........dictator wanna be.

So Maga is showing small signs of weakness..........

Taco could go crazy and call in the army...start a war.....

It all depends on the people continuing to rise up against this regime

It is up to the American people to keep their democracy alive

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Leslie Olsen's avatar

You can shun a malignant narcissist, they will yell, beg, and threaten until they find another naive enabler that believes their "victim" story. I was naive once, never again.

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

Not sure if there is hope for us. Jan 6th insurrection should have been a wake up call and it wasn’t

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A Pat's avatar

A small % of people bought a load of BS a decade+ ago. Coupled with a lot of men from that group blaming women for their low self esteem. Mix this with Christofascism and racism and you have a nasty intoxicating drink. Good will prevail over time.

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Deborah Shell's avatar

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Hope you’re right! The EVIL that pervades our country at present, feels entitled to not share the benefits of our American, but to have and own it ALL! (Exclusively for themselves )

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Shawn Murphy's avatar

This article is pretty special in terms of understanding the depth of the con. Mr Cohen has done a great job at outlining the impact of deception. We must find a way through this.

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June Mita's avatar

This Americans hating Americans is not new. I live near what once was a thriving silk industry. At its peak, many workers were Irish, German, Polish. They were not allowed to ride on the trollies after their shift was done. They were not allowed to live near the silk mills. They had to live on the opposite side of town, some 3-5 miles from the mills. They mostly had to walk to their tenement housing. Americans have always hated immigrants and naturalized citizens. They hated Native Americans. Even at our founding, our ancestors hated the British, their own culture. It isn't right, but we are still in that mindset. This is just the latest reinvention of it.

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cindee68's avatar

This is a class war disguised as patriots vs "terrorists." We need to wake up and realize that it is the billionaires against the peons, and that they are happy to continue amassing wealth far beyond what they need while 99% of the population holds them up. They need us in order to keep on keeping on. We must recognize the threat and unite against them! Economic blackout 11/25-12/2. No black Friday, no supporting those who we have been allowing to hold us back. We are stronger together! The 99% pay the price while the rich get yachts tax-free and huge tax cuts that could fund the entire country without them losing their way of life. How much is enough?

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Kathleen M. Eisenhauer's avatar

Exactly!! I will add that, there are many Americans that want to have their views, religion, morals, bigotry etc…set the agenda. But sorry, that’s not how life works! As people, living in a diverse upbringing and environment, we all make choices regarding what to believe and how to live. I don’t hate a rump follower, but I certainly don’t respect anyone that follows such a cruel, corrupt, and narcissistic liar! I will talk to them as a neighbor or stranger as I would anyone. But, will I chose to spend time w/ them? That would be a ‘No’. No matter who it is, life is too precious to spend time w/someone who believes in rump’s egocentric, racist, disgusting lifestyle. Hate will never win over love, nor the right of individuals to choose their own path in life! Oh and by the way, rump….Release the Jeffrey Epstein’s files!!

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cindee68's avatar

Love your response, but we need to say TRUMP out loud. We may be attacked, but we (together) are stronger than them. Welcome to the resistance.

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Kathleen M. Eisenhauer's avatar

I hear ya, but that’s the nicest word I have for him.

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Wd52's avatar

Well, half (1/3 actually) are fools who were suckered, and chose to destroy America and the other 2/3

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Emily McNamara's avatar

It is shocking when confronted by someone, a regular person, reflecting the Scott Jennings smirk, the sneering, hateful disrespect, without returning it with the same or with what the trumpers call the TDS response, the usual condescending, holier than thou, look down one’s liberal nose. I have decided to respond differently. When someone remarks to me in that creepy undertone of white superiority, which is what it is, I will quietly remark back “I disagree with you. I am not interested in your hatefulness.”, then turn away. I am not interested. I don’t want to attempt to change their mind, educate them, give them a platform for their hatefulness. I’m not Jesus or Ghandi or the Pope. I am a grandma who has raised 3 kind, rational, friendly, loving people and is helping to raise 6 loving grandkids who have taught me more than I’ve taught them. I don’t even argue with the Trumpy son-in-law. He will find out.

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TonyCastaneda's avatar

AMERICANS DO NOT HATE AMERICANS ,DESAGREE TO AGREE OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND.WE THE PEOPLE JUST SHOWED THE WORLD BY MARCHING NEXT TO EACH OTHER,THAT WHEN WE TOGETHER WE FIGHT FOR GODS COUNTRY.DISPITE OUR DIFENRENCES WE STILL PROTECT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM EVIL FORCES FROM WITHIN AND ABROAD.

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Terry's avatar
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We fight to keep god out of public life - enough with the god bs. So called god got us into the crap - most wars have religion and so called god as the root...god is a construct created by man - enough!

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Robert Goldbach's avatar

We need even more people out on the street on November 22. (Anniversary of Kennedy assassination, ironically). "Remove the Regime!"

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john augustine's avatar

go away troll

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Denise's avatar

Not true!

We HATE the Draconian trump administration…

Don’t fall for STANKY MAN’S BS

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S. R. T. Allen's avatar

We have to agree to disagree.

That's how people with differing views can continue to be civil and respectful to one another. No one ever wins an argument, nor do arguments and yelling, etc, ever change anyone's mind.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Nope... only finding common ground and setting boundaries and respecting each others' boundaries will end the war. We are never going to convince haters to stop hating and they are never going to convince us to stop being compassionate, helping people, and having empathy.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Democratic Blue States should ditch the Red states. Blue states need to stop paying for states that hate them and send Gestapo troops into their cities.

Enough is enough....see ya later!!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

I'd certainly like to see what the red states would do if we actually cut them off. Tough Love, so to speak! I certainly wouldn't invite a person to sit at my table if it was clear they hated me and wanted me to die, which the MAGAs do. I'm all for the Blue dots in red states joining the rest of us in our blue states and leave the red ones to their own devices to figure it out without our wallets.

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WJB Motown's avatar

I do not understand the hatred from Red states towards the Blue.

Now they are sending Gestapo, SS units into Blue cities???? It is absolute crazy insanity. Time for Blue states to bid farwell.

Maybe it is best for TacoTits to raze the nation to rubble. Then it can be re-built with universal healthcare.....freedom for everyone to be themselves

Ban and eliminate Fake Christian fascist Nationalism.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

jealousy!

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WJB Motown's avatar

Okay.......totally unreal........" I like the uneducated"

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LynseyFS's avatar

"Trump didn’t invent this sickness; he just understood how to sell it." Exactly - he's nothing more than a narcissistic Worldclass Slimy Used Car Salesman.

(no offense to all used car salesmen)

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Nancy's avatar

I believe you are correct. I see this happening with some of my friends. They tell me to stop watching the news. When I tell them something they say they didn’t know that and where did I get my information. When I read something, I usually try to fact check with at least one other source. It’s scary to watch these friends that I know are intelligent people just ignore what’s going on. That’s why we have this problem, well some of it anyway. Just because we’re older doesn’t make it okay to ignore criminal activity by our politicians.

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Heide’s World's avatar

What did you say to him, Michael?

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Cheryl Thomas's avatar

That's exactly the question I came here to ask.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Who is the real audience for this article? Who is the "We" of which you speak? Do you have links to proof of the stats you share? How cynical you are... Perhaps you need to move out of that area where you no longer feel at peace, where hatred can come into your coffee shop and interrupt your peace, your conversation and your espresso.

This statement, "That’s the new national pastime, by the way: inserting yourself where you don’t belong" seems to include you in the hateful people with no empathy and with the group who doesn't think that others should exist, at least not at your table while you are talking. It's obvious you know this interloper as you have indicated a great deal about him - so no just passing stranger, but someone apparently who you believe doesn't belong in your sphere interrupting your coffee or your conversation.

If we are to become or overcome the hatred and lack of empathy you claim we all possess, perhaps it should start with you and a smile the next time you see this person; maybe invite them to sit down and share some coffee and conversation. Or are you immune to listening to feedback?

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john augustine's avatar

u r delusional....go back drinking the maga koolaid

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Bluesmurf's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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