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ORIGINAL: flyhumbleguy

Be careful throwing around nazism claims. The nazis were a special breed and you'll realize how lucky you are should such ever come anywhere close to dominating the American political scene. The more socialism comes to the fore, a nazi reaction becomes more likely to result certainly.

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ORIGINAL: flyhumbleguy

Please. If Obama hadn't ratcheted up the hate, he'd have not had his subscription renewed. He ran a highly divisive campaign that pitted rich against non-rich, old against young, women against men, and non-white against white. Grand healer and unifier I think not. Hope and change became hate and blame. Forward was more like backward. The gun and bunker-building businesses are going to see their stock prices go more through the roof than they already have. More food will continue to be hoarded and stored. I hope you aren't squeamish about eating bugs and are scheduling time to learn how to catch and cook rats. And that could be a rosier scenario.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

mote.  just saying.

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ORIGINAL: dirtybrandy

Just wanted to comment some common misunderstanding of Americans concernig socialism. First, you've never experienced socialism, not even with FDR, so you have such misconceptions that one can't know where to begin. Nazism wasn't even a special branch of it as someone said, the word socialism in its name was just a lie. The Nazi party was a perfect blend of capitalism -see the association with the Krupps for instance- and nationalism, nothign to do with socialism. Obama isn't a socialist, just a left wing capitalist. Socialism can be good -like in Sweden or Britain in the 60's- or not so good like in Cuba. There's even something in the middle like Germany's social market economy. In America there's more risk of a soft kind of nazism if the extreme right in the Republican party gets stronger than of any sort of socialism. Believe me.

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ORIGINAL: dirtybrandy

Just wanted to comment some common misunderstanding of Americans concernig socialism. First, you've never experienced socialism, not even with FDR, so you have such misconceptions that one can't know where to begin. Nazism wasn't even a special branch of it as someone said, the word socialism in its name was just a lie. The Nazi party was a perfect blend of capitalism -see the association with the Krupps for instance- and nationalism, nothign to do with socialism. Obama isn't a socialist, just a left wing capitalist. Socialism can be good -like in Sweden or Britain in the 60's- or not so good like in Cuba. There's even something in the middle like Germany's social market economy. In America there's more risk of a soft kind of nazism if the extreme right in the Republican party gets stronger than of any sort of socialism. Believe me.

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ORIGINAL: flyhumbleguy

Please. If Obama hadn't ratcheted up the hate, he'd have not had his subscription renewed. He ran a highly divisive campaign that pitted rich against non-rich, old against young, women against men, and non-white against white. Grand healer and unifier I think not. Hope and change became hate and blame. Forward was more like backward. The gun and bunker-building businesses are going to see their stock prices go more through the roof than they already have. More food will continue to be hoarded and stored. I hope you aren't squeamish about eating bugs and are scheduling time to learn how to catch and cook rats. And that could be a rosier scenario.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

From the GOP website, an amazing message.

1. Its jeering tone is just nasty.
2. It talks vaguely about high-propensity voters. Translation - you'll never get your voters out.
3. "In the four party-registration states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada), we are poised to win the Election Day vote by even greater margins than we did in 2008." Um, in 2008, you LOST all four states. Get your facts right.
4. To say that the Romney campaign has contacted the same number of people as the Dems is technically accurate, but Romney contacts were robocalls and Obama's were live people. Did the GOP not know the difference?

On the whole, an amazingly dumb thing to say. Its tone won't win them many Independents, either.

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ORIGINAL: flyhumbleguy

Please. If Obama hadn't ratcheted up the hate, he'd have not had his subscription renewed. He ran a highly divisive campaign that pitted rich against non-rich, old against young, women against men, and non-white against white. Grand healer and unifier I think not. Hope and change became hate and blame. Forward was more like backward. The gun and bunker-building businesses are going to see their stock prices go more through the roof than they already have. More food will continue to be hoarded and stored. I hope you aren't squeamish about eating bugs and are scheduling time to learn how to catch and cook rats. And that could be a rosier scenario.

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ORIGINAL: flyhumbleguy

Be careful throwing around nazism claims. The nazis were a special breed and you'll realize how lucky you are should such ever come anywhere close to dominating the American political scene. The more socialism comes to the fore, a nazi reaction becomes more likely to result certainly.