Free Republic's own 'FerFal'

Free Republic ^ | 6/6/12 | marron

[ansel12]

Neither were 1920's Germans, 1900's Russians or 1930's Chinese.Explain to me how we are immune to the passions that drove them over the edge.

Yes they were, they all had many centuries indicating and expressing their volatility, and violent divisions and religious wars, they all come from a different history, a different culture than the centuries old America.

This isn't about some "passions".

[null and void]

Huế. Interesting that nearly all the cabbies in Washington DC are Somali...

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Huế. Interesting that nearly all the cabbies in Washington DC are Somali...

[elcid1970]

Zo.... vaht’s zo surprizing about zat? Verrrry interezting!

;^)

[riri]

he real globalist agenda

You seem to understand the big picture.

As President Bush told Glenn Beck. (paraphrasing) "Whoever gets the office after me will very soon realize they have very little choice"

[null and void]

I wasn’t. I’m 3/4 Germanic...

[MHGinTN]

I’m no political guru. Frame your question so that it has a fixed focal point. When you refer to ‘it can’t happen here’, what is the “it” in your question? And why do you ask me to address a non sequitur like, “Good thing Americans are a fundamentally different people from Germans, eh?”

[Iron Munro]

But I do think that our benevolent Congresscritters will figure out a way to get paid even if no one else in our government is.

Elected officials at all levels (local, state, federal), and many bureaucrats, will find ways to confiscate, extort, or just plain steal enough wealth and power to maintain or increase their lofty positions.

And let's not forget that wherever a vacuum is created an opportunist will rush in to fill the void.

[null and void]

Hope you're right, know you're wrong.

For my own part, I had been feverishly excited all day. Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got into my blood, and in my heart I was not so very sorry that I had to return to Maybury that night. I was even afraid that that last fusillade I had heard might mean the extermination of our invaders from Mars. I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Good thing Americans are a fundamentally different people from Germans, eh?

I appreciate the sarcasm but you are correct. We are fundamentally different in one significant way;

"A gun behind every blade of grass..."

This one thing will guarantee that the coming collapse will bear little resemblance to 1930s Germany.

[Kartographer]

Americans REAL Americans

I read about them everyday they serve and serve this country well and they come from those same schools you are talking about. And I read ever day about others even younger like:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2889460/posts

They are here among us and when the time comes they will only need some to lead them. That will be the job of those ‘getting on in age’. Selco talks about this on his blog about how when things went to hell in Bosian it didn’t take long for the young to learn the vaule of the expereinces and the wisdom of the old.

[SENTINEL]

Kart, you must not know, but the FerFal is a Freeper.

I can't recall his screenname at the moment.

For the benefit of those who don't recognize the name, get and read this excellent book, about the economic crash of Argentina during the 90's.

[Iron Munro]

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Here's the link:

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[ansel12]

Americans and America is it's own people, not Russia, or Germany, or Cambodia, or China, and it already has it's own centuries of history and it's own culture, and it's own national character, even it's own unique religious foundation.

[ladyrustic]

Yours is a naive hope, but we are, unfortunately, no different than the rest of mankind.

[null and void]

Ah.

I contend that Americans are the same flesh as people all over the world, we all share, at a fundamental level, every flaw and strength the most sophisticated Berliner, the highest Mandarin, the most independent Amazonian tribesman has.

This commonality is why I don’t think it’s a non sequitur to compare Americans to other peoples around the world. Although we are, by and large, a kinder, gentler and more giving a people than the earth has ever known, that is a thin veneer of civilization we have managed to pound onto our baser nature.

The ‘it’ is the ability of circumstances and demagogs to peal away that veneer and convert a civilization into an unimaginably cruel and evil parody of itself.

We are not that many generations from murdering Indian children because “nits make lice”, from owning and beating slaves to death, from lynchings, from incinerating entire cities full of men, women and children. We still have the genes for all those horrors and so much more.

How is it possible to avoid revisiting equivalents of these shameful acts in our future (both in general, and specifically given our current cultural trajectory)?

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This one thing will guarantee that the coming collapse will bear little resemblance to 1930s Germany.

Hope so.

[ansel12]

Yours is an ignorant post, and naive.

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Please see post #56.

[Lancey Howard]

The most critical thing to always keep in mind is that the political class will do whatever is necessary to protect itself, FIRST. When the SHTF, the scumbag government elite will hunker down and throw EVERYBODY else - - everybody else who is not “connected” - - under the bus and do whatever else is necessary to keep their own comfy lifestyles fully intact. They will be the LAST people in America to suffer in any way, shape, manner, or form. That fact is simply not arguable.