"I have lived 61 years, lost my parents and my sister plus many many pets and this is the darkest day of my life."
Several years ago, I read a story which chronicled the life of one of the original female founders of the Weather Underground, a radical revolutionary group from the sixties.
The part that sticks in my mind was the fact that this persons father was a committed Communist, who had immigrated from Russia. The father knew Stalin personally. Turns out that the fathers sister had been sent to a death camp by Stalin, never to be heard from again.
The fathers prized possession, which he proudly and cheerfully displayed to friends and family was a biography of Stalin, which the 'great man' had personally dedicated.
For every murderous tyrant such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, there are a million enablers...true believers, who are totally complicit in the brutality and horror, though they themselves lack the will or active agression to actually participate in the madness.
These are the people who stand by silently, perhaps with an inner smile, as people are loaded unto trains like cattle.
The people on DU are prime candidates for manipulation by tyrants. Would they stand by as well if a leftist strongman assumed power and proceeded to 'correct' the American conservatives for their sins against humanity?
They are not just 'over there' they are here, everywhere.
They are always with us.
Man, your post #47 ran a chill down my spine!