[LINK] BARACK Obama has been re-elected for a second term as US President

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, tomk wrote:

> A historical analysis of the lead up to the Weimar republic has a
> fascinating correlation to what appears to be happening in the USA now.

Mate, where have you been?!

The Weimar Republic has already been used as a meme by the US Republican Party,
against their own team mates!:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/radicals-push-members-out-on-a-wing-20120713-2218k.html

> ''I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming 
> goofy,'' said Justice Richard Posner in a radio interview...

...

> ''Us public policy analysts aren't meant to make comparisons with the 1930s, 
> but it is beginning to look like the Weimar Republic.''  (Bruce Bartlett)

> The economist Bruce Bartlett began his political career working for the 
> Republican Ron Paul in 1976. He went on to work for President Reagan, helping
>  to shape the economic reforms that became known as Reaganomics. He later 
> worked for George W. Bush and has been a member of prominent conservative 
> think tanks.

> In a February appearance on The Daily Show, Bartlett, said, "Frankly one of 
> our political parties is insane, and we all know which one it is.''


We dodged a bullet and a damned good thing too.


rachel

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