Excellently put, but we should be aware in a long-term historical sense too, though. The Beer Hall Putsch was early twentieth-century Germany's equivalent of a Village People farce. (View Post)

"We are not Germany in 1933. But we may be Munich, 1923. On 8 November of that year, a couple of thousand Nazis staged a failed putsch to topple the Weimar Republic. Ten years later the same ins… (View Post)

Whatever the difference in suffering, images are almost everything our society. That image of the Capitol swept round like a burning cauldron of crowds, like a renaissance painting, or the man standi… (View Post)

It very much can. A week to ten days ago, the proportion of Daily Mail comments that the coronavirus was a plot against civil liberties, and hospitals were empty, was hovering around 50%. Many of the… (View Post)

That sums up some of the current problems in a nutshell. (View Post)