Trump has made his repeated promise to deport 20,000,000 minorities and foreigners a central feature of his campaign. What does Trump intend to do with them? History provides the key. And what history? The history of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, when another great power, seeking a cheap way to victimize a large part of its population to benefit the majority race, also started a program of mass "deportation" of minorities, in order to provide its majority race with more land, more money, more of everything, at the expense of the others. There was a word for this: lebensraum, or "living space," the notion that the majority race deserved what it craved so much that it justified any abuse of those considered to be lesser humans. Hitler proposed to "deport" Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and eventually all other non "Aryan" residents of the Third Reich. The Nazis soon discovered that deportation was impossible; it was too expensive for Germany, and oth...
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"I faded out after about 45 seconds." - GE, October 4, 2016.
Little wonder. - DH, October 5, 2016.
And Poll, just to be honest, I did hear a little of it, because my wife was watching it in the kitchen. What I heard was Mike Pence doing a great job of regurgitating the canned Republican responses he was taught to squawk like a parrot. Maybe great debating technique, but it sure doesn't make him an honorable man.
Dikran ends with an "n," not an "m."