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Betraying the principles of standing to tyrants and aggressors would only confirm that America as we used to know it moved to the past. Along with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, the rule of law, checks and balances, the principles, character, nature and soul of the country would part as well. What would remain? Could worship of the big buck and hatred of everything different fill the vacuum? The thinking part of the society must find these answers now. History leaves no more room for procrastination.

The first "argument" of choice of lying populists and worse, is smearing the opponent. They have nothing else to show, really. Just look, wherever they come to rule, sometimes for decades: Hungary, Slovakia, now the States, downtrodden, stagnating, backward, lowest productivity, prosperity and morale among the peers. And one more time: they have nothing real to show for all the loud bombastic talk. Only the lies and smear. Anyone who would take one word of theirs for true is in only for the same dumb carousel ride coming out hurt and scratching in all places and still having learned nothing.

But the relative timing of the events would be off. Hitler's Czechoslovakia and Austria would correspond, more or less closely with Putin's Crimea (Austria) and Donbass (instrumented internal trouble followed by invasion). Same blueprint by the way. Making an appeasement deal now would have no analogs in history then, it would be like declaring a truce with Hitler after he invaded Poland and France.

Canadian public and Liberals have a once in a lifetime (optimistic) or the last one (realistic) chance and opportunity to make a necessary and long overdue meaningful renewal of the federal politics. With time, provinces would follow. If we let it sleep away in procrastination and endless talking, the writing is on the wall.

Can one be any more dumb? Or are they going for the all-time record?

Have a detente with Hitler, his modern-day incarnation and a full analog? We need to understand that this never happened before and would go against and opposite to the decision of our predecessors in the days of WWII. We would be opening a new chapter of history and epoch of humanity. Forget dark post apocalypse stories and alternative realities, it would be a very real one.

It is true that Biden was indecisive and dithering in standing to the new hitler-style menace of our time. Sure, it's true. And in no way it can negate that what Trump is trying to pull through behind the curtain of chaos he creates fully intentionally is much, much and beyond any comparison worse: aligning, appeasing and in the next logical step, colluding with an international criminal regime. With unknown but certainly dire consequences for the entire world if Putin's aggression is normalized and shrugged off no one nowhere could feel safe. That would be a slide back all the way to the pre WWI state of the world, only with nukes this time around. Global warming may not even have a chance to catch up.

Ukraine was never a part of Russia in the modern time. If a psycho makes "claim" on you home does not give it any rights or standing. You either get it or you don't. And either of the two, you don't get it or you're lying and that nullifies any sense in having any serious discussion.

A liar, stupid, shameless and pathetic. The sovereign territory of Ukraine is recognized by the entire world, including Russia, in multiple signed and executed treaties before the invasion. The conclusion: credibility of this poster down to zero and then negatives. Only a shameless boldface liar. The brand.

I'm not sure if this is profoundly deep sarcasm and if so it illustrates the ages old mental trick perfectly and completely. A murderous lying psycho is never responsible for his acts, no way. He is only a victim of the brutal and criminal reality and really had no other choice. Just use this template it will fit precisely on each new psycho act.

Only the standard, default excuse of every murderous psycho that walked this earth since the times immemorial. Nothing new under this tired moon.

One of the: - dumb - illiterate - deliberately misleading (or several simultaneously, granted) prevents you from answering the question you threw up in the air. Which makes the discussion quite useless.

"End" doesn't mean "submit" or "appease" a fascist thug, in any American dictionary. The war with other fascism was "ended" in 1945. Which one do you use?

Random six decades old noise. Pass on.

Facts exist. They are real. Liar can lie his way ignoring or distracting from the facts of reality only with 1) the dumb 2) those who couldn't care and 3) other pathetic liars. That was the complete list.

Gooey Opportunistic Phonies? Oh well.

It saddens me much that being given the privilege to use the eyes and the brain, for free too you chose, voluntarily and deliberately, to abandon them by repeating the dumbest coin phrase, thoughtlessly rather than use your own eyes and so on. Just look, history made it easy for you (and the likes of you): you don't have to do extensive research, sit in libraries, look for and extract hidden knowledge. All has just played before your eyes, sadly, to little avail: 1. The political system, detached from the reality of the society experiences inevitable decay and corruption, including moral, of principles and values. 2. Authoritarian cult takes over one of the two default "parties". Some morally corrupt politicians (see p.1) see nothing wrong with cooperating with it for own gain. 3. It lies its way to the power and that spells the end of democracy. Any normal political entity is bound to observe and follow some minimal standard of truth and objectivity. Obviously the cult has no such limits. It can spell, spread and repeat any lie including most outrageous ones. This creates an uneven playing field and so it eventually lies its way to the near-absolute power. A logical, mathematical proof that binary political system will end democracy. Just verified in practice, real life right before your eyes. Sadly, to no avail.

John McCain's secretary gave the best answer to it: "we didn't realize that our system of checks depended so much on the character..." They didn't, really? In two centuries, and counting years to a century after Nazi? This is the dumbest, glaring oversight one could have imagined: you design a wondersome blueprint with all kind of sophisticated mechanisms and functions. And then you say, it's functioning, the switch button depends on two hundred or so fingers. Names, in a well known list. Now Hitler's goons a century back figured out quite easily how to make a hundred or so fingers sign and/or push whatever they needed. It's no mystery, did you know? And now the fate of democracy itself is bound to them because there's nothing else between them and the absolute power. How much more dumb, careless and irresponsible can it be? The binary system is a danger to democracy. With time, it will run it into the ground. The only question is, how many more cycles do we have for a meaningful change.

This is an example that with just words anything can be explained and rationalized away. Hitler, his wars, his mass killings again: any-thing. More than words is needed to keep this menace at bay and one particular group: the Republicans, failed it miserably forget all the great words they spoke and signed. They embraced the evil cheerfully and gleefully. They saw and see nothing wrong with it, and are proud of it. Just as it happened the last time: zero essential difference. A despicable miserable goo to which a formerly proud pillar of democracy has collapsed. Empty walking shells with no morality or integrity left inside ready to reshape themselves to any new call and agenda. Miserable and despicable, what other words could history find to address them? But this time, they knew everything. There will be none, zero escapes and excuses.

Reuters: Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs To drop all pretenses and keep no illusions: this is material, de facto help to the worst criminal aggressor in Europe since Hitler. Hidden behind the barrage of chaos: but no one can claim just an innocent coincidence. It has begun. Ask yourselves: if Vlad's buddies or/and puppets will come to control America, would it stop in Ukraine? Where would this world end, and we aren't even talking global warming next century but in several years (1933 - 1939)? The Republicans who acquitted the criminal are either quislings or traitors. No innocence, a century on and in such matters. They completely and cheerfully abandoned their constitutional duty to the country and the people and will be despised and regarded with dismay and contempt by generations. No coming back from this shame. The regular folk who fooled themselves into showing or making a point to someone somewhere repeated the same mistake as those in 1933 Germany. No games with this evil, no explanations: it will take all. And the fate of democracy in America, never been this unclear and uncertain. No formal processes will restore the confidence, moral and leadership standing, past this point. We'll just have to see, can American society renew its commitment to democracy - or it did it end right here.

The brainless/converted are saying it openly and without shame. Too bad America never heard of referendums, would be one nice and clear question. Who needs the intrigue?

The criticism expressed not only in words. One case of stagnating elites caused the most destructive war in the history. The next one can be developing before our eyes and can have dire and unpredictable consequences. Most top-down systems in the world are authoritarian, oligarchical or dictatorial. Your claim is factually false. The renewal of the federal political system needs to begin with a move to proportional representation. There are federal states in the democratic world (Germany is one example) so regional balancing isn't a show stopper. Proportional means that a party gets the same quote of representatives as its share of the vote. If we mean what is said (free elections and fair representation) this is the only way it could work. Every vote counts. There will be more parties. The role of the incumbents will diminish. Alliances and coalitions of smaller parties will keep governments in check. Countless administrative privileges, prorogations, prerogatives will become a thing of the past. This agenda is urgent and unavoidable if in this country we do not want to follow in the steps of our neighbor who is leaving the democracy space.

Exactly. It can be the make or break moment for the country. The writing is on the wall.

The first part we discussed to boring death and yes it will work in the Canadian context just like in fifty or so other national developed democracy contexts in the world. The second we discussed also: governments cannot be ruled by groups (or gangs) that pretend to have an absolute majority and mandate while in fact they didn't earn anything like it. They will need to cooperate with other parties to govern and those parties will keep the government in check and transparent. As is the case in every single first world democracy these days, other than the two last exceptions.

The converted: truth doesn't exist. Whatever the Fuhrer said in his last speech makes the truth. If it contradicts the one before it, it's the new truth and the old one never happened. The meek ones: please don't overreact. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. But look there are positive sides too. OK it's bad but we have nothing to do with it, it'll pass by somehow. Just believe that nothing bad can happen. The first drive the thrust, the latter enable it with passivity and readiness to accept and explain away anything. When these groups reach sufficient faction of the population, democracy and the rule of law make an exit. A dire reminder to all of us who value and want to keep it.