The Great Switch

Ok, you trolls out there, her is political analysis to consider but you will have to dig out your old U.S. History books you never looked at before and READ.  Of course you won’t and I will get a bunch of half WITS with Fox News crap in response.

YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.  YOUR LACK OF READING AND SMUG ME FIRST IS BEING USED AGAINST YOU AND YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL HAVE TO FIGHT THE WAR THAT WILL KILL US ALL!
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Let me get this straight...the anti-Communist Red hating party of the past, who still stands for a tough foreign policy, lots of Defense Spending, break treaties with Iran etc., is now warming up to Russia; following their fuhrer’s lead the Republicans now like Russia?

Now this is the Russia that has invaded the Ukraine, recently poisoned British nationals and directly tampered with our elections (and has done the same in several democracies).   Russia is consistent, it always attacks democracies and never attacks autocracies.

Why. Because it is an autocracy having shed its brief experiment with democracy a few years ago.

Russia is a fascist plutocracy, with socialist organization of several functions (like health care).  It is no democracy, is a single party state essentially, with a small group of men running things..

It is homophobic to the max, racist to the core, and getting poorer due to its lack of inclusion and diversity.

That’s right inclusion and diversity is a positive thing in governments. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

Immigrants from Europe, Africa, Asia; etc., helped enormously to win WWI and WWII, wars essentially against plutocracy, aristocracy and fascism.

Wilson and Roosevelt after him, depicted the wars as crusades for liberal democracy, for a chance for the common man; etc.

Did it happen:  to some degree yes.  After WWII, which cost over 50 million deaths and untold damage, the world turned to democracy and freedom as it rebuilt.  Fascism was actually outlawed, racism as well,  in Germany and other fascist states.

The most radical “fix” was used on Germany and Japan, dividing Germany up for over twenty years to educate the fascism of of them.  Japan took a pledge that they still adhere to, to not militarize again.

The world saw unparalleled wealth, as the post war baby boom made America into the world’s  only super power and rebuilt Europe and Asia.  Europe and Asia benefitted from the destruction of their infrastructure with an  economic boom, rebuilding the cities destroyed by American  bombers  in record time.

The world was basically rebuilt in thirty years, making a lot of people very rich.  And the Soviet Union, who as the second strongest nation to emerge from WWII in spite of high damage and many deaths, became a rival of the United States in a Cold War, that threatened the atomic destruction of the world.

But that changed when the United States, that had waged a consistent and well thought out policy of containment of Communism (that cost the mistake of Vietnam) stuck to a bi-partisan policy that ultimately broke the Soviet Union and turned it to an experiment of democracy.

Both parties in America had a mutual enemy of Communism, that clashed with their capitalism, and continued for years to oppose Soviet aggression everywhere.  And finally, under a very conservative President, the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union amazingly broke apart into several states, and atomic threats even were reduced.

But then an amazing thing happened.  A right wing movement began in America fueled by the opposition to  Civil Rights advancements of African Americans and other people of color.  A backlash is now in effect in the United States to the election of the first African American President.  Long latent fascist authoritarian tendencies have been reborn under a failed plutocrat, whose racism and fascism is flaunted not hidden.

And the white lower middle class has embraced him as a savior, as someone who will “Make America Great Again.

They are too uneducated and yes stupid, to understand that the diversity of immigrants is what saved the word TWICE during WWI and WWII.  It was America’s immigrants who returned to their home countries to stop the madness that was tearing the word apart.  It was this strength of the United States that rebuilt the world after WWII in the image of liberal democracies that stressed for a time, the well being of their people over preparations for war.

Europe was very sick from 1914 to 1945.  The illness of fascism and autocracy killed 50 million people and almost pushed the world into the abyss.

But the dream of America and democracy saved us.

Now the nightmare of America threatens to kill us all.....