My daughter, who is studying in Berlin, and I, were just discussing that democracy for Germany was the 15 years of the Weimar Republic and then in the East it did not come again until 1989. So, it is no wonder that there is less understanding of it and people are more vulnerable to Bots that encourage them to vote for the AfD. In the USA…
My daughter, who is studying in Berlin, and I, were just discussing that democracy for Germany was the 15 years of the Weimar Republic and then in the East it did not come again until 1989. So, it is no wonder that there is less understanding of it and people are more vulnerable to Bots that encourage them to vote for the AfD. In the USA, our democracy has not been for all the entire time. Women did not get the vote until the the 1900s, and the Equal Rights Amendment still has not been passed.
David: I read (many years ago) that when the Church executed someone for witchcraft, they got the murdered person’s property. Executions went on until the law was changed and the Church could no longer collect the estate.
Reminds me of laws enabling local police to keep property and cash from anyone arrested for a drug crime (I don’t think they even had to be convicted). What a spree if local arrests that incentivized! Was that a Reagan thing? Seems like something he would do.
My daughter, who is studying in Berlin, and I, were just discussing that democracy for Germany was the 15 years of the Weimar Republic and then in the East it did not come again until 1989. So, it is no wonder that there is less understanding of it and people are more vulnerable to Bots that encourage them to vote for the AfD. In the USA, our democracy has not been for all the entire time. Women did not get the vote until the the 1900s, and the Equal Rights Amendment still has not been passed.
Not to mention a collective racial subconscious and the desire of the super menschen to acquire Jewish property.
David: I read (many years ago) that when the Church executed someone for witchcraft, they got the murdered person’s property. Executions went on until the law was changed and the Church could no longer collect the estate.
Reminds me of laws enabling local police to keep property and cash from anyone arrested for a drug crime (I don’t think they even had to be convicted). What a spree if local arrests that incentivized! Was that a Reagan thing? Seems like something he would do.
I understand the feeling. I felt that way when Obama was elected and my father did not live long enough to see it.