Hello Greg,

>ml>what are you? a damned crook like so many others???
>
>I am a Patriot, like so many others.
>
>Patriot
>noun
>a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it
> against enemies or detractors.

ΓÇ£One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is
whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the
world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things
about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an
individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown
bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of
pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of
excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no
time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they
do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be
considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most
patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.ΓÇ¥
~ Andy Rooney, My War

Today, Germans are our friends.  And to think, according to Reporters
Without Borders, Germany ranks far higher than the USA in regards to
freedom of the press (free speech).  Why is that?  Not because any of
them are good Nazis, as most Germans have denounced that philosophy
long ago ...

>ml>it was not a "gotcha" question but you surely seem to have
> ml>misunderstood it like so many other ignorant people...
>
>adjective: ignorant
>
>lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
> "he was told constantly that he was ignorant and stupid"

Germans were a well-educated people who openly praised Adolf Hitler.
He took office through legal means, and was widely supported until
just before Berlin fell to the Allied powers during WWII.  Even
after the war, many former Nazis continued to serve in government
positions, although no longer serving a Fuhrer as their god.

What I am saying is the German people went in with their eyes
wide open.  Not closed and shut, or ignorant in any way.  They
knew who and what Hitler was, and chose to follow him anyway.

After the war, Germans asked the rest of the world - "Why did you
bomb our cities?  Why did you bomb our schools?  Why did you bomb
our hospitals?"  To them, the world was the agressor, with Germans
defending their own homeland.

>synonyms: uneducated, unknowledgeable, untaught, unschooled, untutored,
>untrained, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unread, uninformed,
>unenlightened, unscholarly, unqualified, benighted, backward; inexperienced,
>unworldly, unsophisticated;
>unintelligent, stupid, simple, empty-headed, mindless;
>informalpig-ignorant, thick, airheaded, (as) thick as two short planks,
> dense,
>dumb, dim, dopey, wet behind the ears, slow on the uptake, dead from the
> neck
>up, a brick short of a load, two sandwiches short of a picnic.

Germans are not a stupid or ignorant people.  And neither are
Americans.  Germans knew who and what Hitler was.  Americans know
who and what Trump is.  As such, we both got what we asked for.

>All that is missing is your photo...

I do not have a funny mustache.

--Lee

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