You may be right. I hope you are
You're right to bring up the Congressional statement that you mentioned in your reply to Czar. That's a good step in the right direction. But white supremacists win national elections, even in so-called leftist hotbeds like France and the Netherlands. They've got free elections over there, last I checked. More free than ours, in many respects. I respect what you're saying, but your argument still boils down to "It can't happen here." I don't think you can back that up.
Until very recently, we had an overt white supremacist who was given a specially created position in the president's innermost circle. These people's hands aren't far from the levers of power. And if they do win enough elections to gain significant power directly, they will give themselves the power to do whatever they'd like. The Constitution of Germany that was still officially in effect in the 30s and 40s included broad civil liberties and personal rights. I don't think they suspended those because people attacked the Nazis.
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Posted: 09/21/2017 at 2:19PM