Too bad Zero Mostel is no longer around. He was blacklisted by goons like this and probably would have left the stage to kick his butt.
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Yeah, he might’ve hurt someone else when he landed.
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When they yell: Heil Hitler, Heil Trump, um I’d say so yes.
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One of the most striking figures from our work, which will soon be published in the Journal of Democracy, shows that younger generations in long-standing democracies are much less likely to consider it “essential” to live in a democracy than earlier cohorts.
In the United States, 23 percent of millennials now express that having a democratic political system is a “bad” way to run the country.
In the last survey, almost half of millennials expressed approval for a “strong leader”. In fact, there is reasonably strong evidence that younger citizens are not only more skeptical of democracy than they once were but also more drawn to political extremes than in the past. Anti-establishment sentiment is real — and depending on the circumstances, it can be mobilized by parties of the right as well as the left.
The World Values Survey first asked whether it would be good to have a “strong leader” who does not have to bother with parliament and elections in 1995. Since then, public attitudes to democracy (parliament and elections) vis-à-vis authority (a strong leader) have soured in most democracies.
But the opposite of panic is not calm; it is complacency. And complacency has been the dominant response of Western elites to the looming threats of Brexit, of Donald Trump and of the rise of illiberal politics. The comforting assumption that the past will remain a reliable guide to the future — that countries would not vote for extreme candidates when they never have before, or indeed that core norms of liberal democracy wouldn’t come under attack where democracy has always been “the only game in town” — hasn’t worked out very well so far. Now is the time to stop being complacent.
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And didn’t get the joke.
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I say that trump made this behavior acceptable. Which it isn’t.
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This is what happens when you let your MAGAt infestation get out of control…
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Only the best people.
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Oddly it is younger people who tend to vote for democrats.
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Is THAT the problem here, having the cheaper ticket?
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More of a shame that he didn’t.
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Jeff Bezos owns Amazon.com. Amazon produces “the man in the high castle” for its prime video. This series explores an alternate reality where the Nazis won WWII and occupied America. Bezos also owns “fake news” Washington post.
… So, basically, Trump is supporting his hated “fake news” by giving them free advertising that the story isn’t so far - fetched…
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Location, location, location…
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“Ich habe eine Wiener Wurst!”
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There goes our next AG…
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They have not been exposed as much to dictatorships as we were - we grew up with the Iron Curtain.
They are fucking spoiled. They should have to live in a dictatorship and get a clue. This is what I thought - they don’t know shit and are bored with too much peace and prosperity.
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Rupert Murdoch has our backs, so no worries.
/s
…or not so snarky.
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Given the way the economy has changed and become more and more unequal since the 1980’s, can you blame them? No one under 40 can really remember what democracy and the economy were like in the US before Reagan. None of them have ever known a government that wasn’t primarily dominated by white-wing right-wing extremists, except for brief interregnums circa 1993-94 and 2009-2010.
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At least he connected the two (Nazi= Trump) for the uneducated, one of Trump’s core beloved constituencies.
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Um, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF was not originally written in yiddish. The Sholom Aleichem stories on which it is based were in yiddish – FIDDLER was in English from start to finish, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein.
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