descent into darkness

 

Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist

1922 - 2007

book:  Prisoners of Time

written by Christopher Clark

reviewed by Andrew Anthony in

The Guardian

(August 10, 2021)

reader comments

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                           I'd recommend these three books in sequence to see how eerily familiar is America's possible descent into darkness:  

Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner; 

I Shall Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer; and 

My Opposition by Friedrich Kellner.  

        These are all diaries kept by ordinary, literate civilians and give a stunning insight into how it felt to live through the lies, propaganda, violence and horror that slowly, inexorably overwhelmed a once civilized population.  

And Biden seems unable or unwilling to get a voting rights act through Congress.  If he doesn't, and before November next year, I fear there's no way back.

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                        Thank you for these recommendations.

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                   Trump isn't really an aspirational dictator, not at his age, just a poisonous old man, it is his sons I'm worried about....Heaven help the US, the world, if either of them gets elected.

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                       "There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it.  This is it:  Only nut cases want to be president."

Kurt Vonnegut

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On You Tube there is a video titled

"Day of Rage:  How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol."

uploader:  The New York Times.

It's about a half hour:  it takes you inside the events of January 6th--it's pretty interesting and evocative of the experience.

One comment under the video reads:

---------------------- See what ONE conman can do with a bunch of delusional people?  And those who know me thought I was over doing it when I pointed out that was exactly how Hitler did what he did. ---------------------- [end of comment]

Congressman Paul Gosar, R-Arizona

Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-Florida

and Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin

appear in the video, saying stuff like, "it wasn't anything, it was just tourists visiting the capitol" ... these guys are gaslighting the American people.  

If William F. Buckley were here, he would kick these people and others like them out of the Republican Party, pronto.

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