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May 27, 2023Liked by Joe Duncan

Thank you for this well written summary.

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May 27, 2023Liked by Joe Duncan

I’m glad you wrote this, Joe. One day in 2016 when Trump was running, I was in the waiting room at my dentist’s office, and the TV was on. One of the news stations was talking about the presidential campaign. While making some small talk with a stranger in the waiting room about the campaign, I also said “we CANNOT put a Hitler in the White House.” The lady paused to collect herself, looked at me, and then said “I do not agree!” The dental hygienist then opens the door to have me come in for my appointment. After my teeth got cleaned and I got ready to leave, the receptionist then tells me of how offended she was at my comment. Of course I was not going to apologize for that; I told the cold hard truth, she didn’t want to acknowledge reality, and it’s not my problem if she’s too blind or not ready to even CONSIDER how similar Trump and his worshippers are to Hitler. I am a realist, not an optimist or a pessimist. I do not believe in sugarcoating. (It’s one of the many reasons I don’t want to have kids.)

If people don’t start paying enough attention, if people don’t learn to see more than just what meets the eye, if people don’t acknowledge even the ugliest of realities, if people will not allow themselves to believe that some people actually are capable of some inhumanly horrendous levels of evil, the horrors in history that we’ve tried so hard to keep from repeating WILL BE REPEATED.

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Germany’s invasion of Poland - Sept 1, 1939.

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