[rlmorel]

I think there is some truth in your post.

That is why the opinion of those who have lived under REAL repressive societies carries weight with me. A few years back, I spoke with a man who had immigrated from the Soviet Union and became an American citizen, and he was nearly frantic with anxiety and anger over the things he was seeing in our government.

He recognized all the ploys, the propaganda, the code words, the promises as the road to tyranny, because he had seen them all and lived through them all before.

Many of us see it, but we know there is a portion of the american electorate out there that doesn’t see it at all.

Hearing the vehemence in his voice greatly disturbed me.

[thecodont]

That is why the opinion of those who have lived under REAL repressive societies carries weight with me. A few years back, I spoke with a man who had immigrated from the Soviet Union and became an American citizen, and he was nearly frantic with anxiety and anger over the things he was seeing in our government.

He recognized all the ploys, the propaganda, the code words, the promises as the road to tyranny, because he had seen them all and lived through them all before.

Many of us see it, but we know there is a portion of the american electorate out there that doesn’t see it at all.

Hearing the vehemence in his voice greatly disturbed me.

Ping to you, ottbmare. You posted once about some woman of your acquaintance, also an immigrant from Eastern Europe and a new American citizen, supposedly an educated woman, who (inexplicably) has expressed a desire to vote for BO. Do I remember correctly?

Buckeye McFrog: I've met someone with similar background who knew the old Soviet Union all too well and didn't want to return to those ways.