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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 31. I have never seen sustained political resistance and opposition like this towards a president before in my life that I can remember.

Is there a comparison in modern history? [/quote]

Your question really should have gone to people over 60.  It was like this in the 1960s, with a divided country and a lot of anger on both sides.  There was more violence back then, but we are still just at the beginning.  Things could get a lot worse.[/quote]
I agree. I'm 63 and even I was too young then to directly witness the worst of the Vietnam protests. The protests were intense and violent because virtually every family was impacted by the Vietnam War as a result of the draft. People lived in fear of being called up. Unlike now, we saw ground combat every night on TV, along with the body count for the day. People knew the war was pointless, which made it much worse.

I don't think there are any parallels in the recent history of our country to the situation that we are facing today. I've never been so afraid. This truly reminds me of Germany in the 1930s. The speed with which Trump and Bannon are attempting to take over and destroy our country is astounding. Even more astounding is that the corrupt Republican Congress is allowing this to happen.[b] I don't think that the people who voted Trump into office had the faintest idea what they were unleashing. They still don't.[/b]

I don't know what the answer is, but it will take sustained vigilance and protests all across the country to even hope to change this situation. I'd like to be able to rely on an independant press, but that has been directly threatened by the administration and weakened by the profit motive. Young people, especially, have to be willing to inform themselves much more than before, and they have to be active participants in their own destiny. This has to be done NOW, before it's too late.

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I believe that most people who voted for Trump thought he was going to lose and thought they were just registering a protest vote. The whole country thought he was going to lose. He thought he was going to lose. No one looked more shocked than him on Wednesday morning.[/quote]

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