How Nazi ideas and ideals that were infiltrating that country do resemble the movement behind Trumpie boy, so those who cry Nazi do have a point: there is a superficial resemblance.
what is not done is to put things into perspective.
So far no Krystalnacht destroying the local Starbucks.
we don't have concentration camps full of opposition leaders, and despite the war of words, there hasn't been a lot of pesky reporters killed so far.
And although human rights groups are worried that cut back in Obamacare might negatively affect the old and disable, it is actually the darlings of the elite who are busy killing the sick, elderly and mentally disabled (the elite's latest darling Baby Trudeau is making the Netherlands look conservative here).
so what about the shootings of newspaper people, politicians, and ordinary people who are dissed or attacked for their political views?
That is one result of the constrant hysteria on the MSM against Trump (and the alternative hysteria on the internet by the usual conspiracy types).
there are a lot of crazies out there, and the toxic rhetoric just gives them an "okay" to act out on their aggression (in the way publicizing school shootings as if they were justified by bullying etc, inspires others to shoot up their schools).
the dirty little secret is that anyone can get hold of guns in the USA...(legally or illegally: The latest kerfuffle on printing guns is a minor issue: plastic guns have been illegal for years)...
but what's the crime of Trumpie boy? tweeting? (yet his tweets get through the propaganda against him so the ordinary folks read them and laugh but get to know his side of the story, whereas a more polite GWBush was politically destroyed by the toxic coverage pushed by his opponants).
The Russia russia RUSSIA conspiracy looks like hysteria at this point, because the main point is that wikileaks might not be russia, and because what harmed Hillary was the leaks about her conspiring to steal the nomination from Bernie, so the Bernie types stayed home, but the workers who were mad at being despised by the Democrats as deplorables did go to the polls.
or is there financial shenanigans that can be used against Trumpieboy? If so, I can think of a lot more politicians who were worse.
as Lolo used to say: They are all crooks.
as for "racism": yes, it is there, but most of us try to overcome our childhood training in racism to be fair to others from other ethnic/religious/racial groups.
But the hysteria is making a lot of us who are in multi racial/immigrant families cynical: because we ethnic minorities, asians and hispanics are being morphed into evil white people by those in charge so quickly that it makes my head spin.
Again I ask: why the anti Trump hysteria?
Because he told the rich anti American Europeans to pay for their own defense? Because he is insisting that tariffs be eliminated or we will put tariffs on others? Or just because he has orange hair?
or is it a war against the "normals"? Why does "inclusion" means to shame those who have moral standards and to promote dysfunctional behavior as being good?
it is indeed Heinlein's crazy years.
Trump is the result of these things, not the cause of them.
My worry: Will the deplorables start to attack back if there is a legal or physical attack against the president??
Which is why Q is so worrisome. They posit an evil elite manipulating the world, and Trumpie boy fighting them along with a small coterie of good guys.
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so be afraid of some nut conspiracy theories on the internet?
Yet the hysteria against Trumpieboy is so over the top, considering his fairly mainstream policies, one does suspect he is a danger to someone. Hmm...
I'd say that all these conspiracy theories of evil elite manipulators running the world economy/governments was crazy, except that back in the early 1990s, I read Robert Reich's book the work of nations, that outlined what we see now; movement of jobs to poor countries, the monopolies by international business that ignore the average person, the destruction of the middle class and the rise of the international technocrats.
Examining the evidence before him, Reich concludes that his analogy of the boat is not valid for contemporary societies. A global economy, rather than discrete national economies, will dictate the economic future of civilization.
Those who will profit most from rapidly emerging new economies Reich identifies as the “symbolic analysts.” If they find themselves on a sinking ship (analogically, in an economically foundering nation), they are in a position to helicopter off their ship and land near the luxury top-deck suite of another ship that is not sinking but is steaming on a direct course to some desirable port.
Because the helicopter lacks space for every passenger on the sinking ship, only a handful, all symbolic analysts—and only the best of them—escape. The lower-level symbolic analysts, along with two other classes of passengers, those Reich identifies as “routine producers” and “in-person servers,” go under when the ship (national economy) plunges into the deep.
In his intimations, Reich sometimes sounds like a latter-day Charles Darwin, hinting darkly at natural selection and the survival of the fittest. Reich’s hierarchy demonstrates the rapid pace of change in the late twentieth century. The routine producers were secure from Adam Smith’s time until well into the middle of the twentieth century. As increased and advanced mechanization reduced the importance of routine producers (assembly line and semi-skilled factory workers), the importance of the service occupations increased significantly.here is a more recent lecture by Reich about this economic monopoly.
the socialists want to smash "capitalism" while ignoring capitalism has pulled most of the world out of poverty.
What is needed is a destruction of the monopolies that run the world, so the average man will have an opportunity to flourish.
But of course, if the crazies of both parties push the US into a civil war, who will win?
China, of course.
(unless corruption there results in their own version of Q... luckily for them, Google and the internet is controlled by the Chinese government to keep dissenters from having a voice).
but that's another essay for another time.
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