windshoppe Loc: Arizona

Anyone who knows anything about the period 1925-1945 in Germany has seen this possibility coming for a couple of years. The parallels are remarkable. Hang on, indeed!

whitewolfowner

Not only are they exact, but this country is being modeled after it with every i dotted and t crossed, with mistakes they found corrected. My mother told me that back in the thirties a relative (German background) was being beaten by her husband. And of course back then, no one got divorced. So instead the family packed her and her children up and sent them back to Germany with relatives to get her away form the abusive husband. The children were being fed propaganda about America, making it look really bad. They spoke up and said, hey, we just came from America and it is not like that there. That evening they were visited by the gaustopo (probably misspelled, but could not find it to correct) and told under no circumstances to shut those kids up. In the middle of the night, the man of the house, woke the mother up, signaling her to be quite and to follow him. He led her to the basement and whispered to her that she had to silence them or they would be hauled off to a concentration camp or worse and that they had to be real quite about it because the walls had ears. He also explained to her that they were bribing the children in the schools to squeal on their parents if they were doing anything the government deemed wrong. Does any of this sound familiar. Already, when my son was starting grammar school back in 1998, the police came in and talked to the children and tried to get them to blow their parents in if they were doing drugs! Now we have cameras on every street corner, even in small hick towns in the middle of nowhere. Before you know it, we'll have to register to use the toilet every day!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

So have such illustrious papers as the NY Times for several decades doing false news.
TV as well as we all remember Dan Rather faking a Chevy Truck blowing up in order to continue the false narrative about them and to hurt the big evil GM corporation.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

Sure... remember how Nero blamed the Christians for burning Rome? The people actually believed it. People will believe any lie as long as it's
fantastic and big enough. You're correct about the NE.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Hitler knew this very well the hero of Time magazine. So did Stalin the hero of the NY times

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

I just accept all this as "human nature" --same as giving human beings a "ball" and they will use it to amuse themselves and others. Human nature and the "ball" i.e. (that is) in the DNA of man -- same as man will naturally fake news. Seriously, the connection is very obvious and IS very pathetic in many ways.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Remember that everyone has a bias, whether they admit it or not & that "news" is manipulated to get better "ratings" or more "clicks"

mdfenton

Here is a fine example of CNN mis-reporting the record of Jeff Sessions....

http://www.weeklystandard.com/in-alabama-jeff-sessions-desegregated-schools-and-got-the-death-penalty-for-kkk-murderer/article/2005461

whitewolfowner

I was i the news business. A journalist is not supposed to report bias or opinions unless they clearly state it; it's called an editorial. A journalist is supposed to report facts and nothing else. They are also obligated under federal law to show both sides of a story and give each side equal time. The main stream media has been violating this for decades and no one has lifted a finger. It would be nice if President Trump would have this addressed by the US attorney general. If so, many in the business will be in trouble, but don't worry, the Clinton Foundation will still have plenty of money to fund their prisons too

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana