tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post7651215463803567084..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: On Guns and the Apple Privacy Battle - It's About Protecting US from Abusive Dictatorsed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-81229620716775610052016-03-15T16:12:30.080-04:002016-03-15T16:12:30.080-04:00One need look no farther than Turkey to observe th...One need look no farther than Turkey to observe the movement of a democratically elected ruler toward authoritarianism. Restrictions on freedom of the press are good early indicators.<br /><br />Abigail ShureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-54427611990752504512016-03-15T15:15:25.957-04:002016-03-15T15:15:25.957-04:00I often find myself thinking along the same lines,...I often find myself thinking along the same lines, but then pull back when I think about the choice between a constitutional democracy (flawed, atrophied, abused and manipulated as it is, but a constitutional democracy all the same) and a government elected by people who want an intolerant megalomaniac to "save" them.<br /><br />The majority of voters in Germany laughed at Hitler, thinking he was a passing fad. The Communist Party refused to ally with the Social Democrats against him, mistakenly thinking, "After Hitler, us!"<br /><br />I think we are moving into a period of intense crisis - economic, social, political and ecological - and, while Donnie on his own doesn't scare me all that much, millions of angry, willingly misled people who are looking for a strong man savior, are scary, indeed.Michael Fiorillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02120229151713643775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-29801062986195774422016-03-15T04:57:34.200-04:002016-03-15T04:57:34.200-04:00I saw a snippet of that segment of 60 minutes, got...I saw a snippet of that segment of 60 minutes, got depressed and turned the channel. The problem is most Americans are not "students of history".... no one ever sees the big picture and all the possible slippery slopes that result from their acceptance of what may appear as reasonable until one scratches the surface. As for a President Trump's possible use of brown shirts---- I recognize the slippery slope but am willing to ignore it. I'm too obsessed with my hatred for Hilary Clinton's status quo and the sell-out democratic party and their puppets such as Randi for that to resonate with me enough to change my vote. It may not matter to most but I'd rather be devoured by the wolf who acts like a wolf(Trump) than by a wolf dressing in grandma's pajamas (Clinton). The dems have done their best to undermine Bernie so if that results in President/Dictator Trump, so be it. The Democratic Party has taken teacher votes for granted for far too long. Bernie and my local assemblyman are the only democrats I have supported since Obama appointed Arne Duncan. That appointment and democrat, Andrew Cuomo woke me up to the failures of the democrats. Roseanne McCoshAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com