Godwin's Law is dead, per Godwin himself. We are far too similar to early 1930s Germany right now. Could go the same way. If it does, its chief accomplice will be people who should have known better who tsk tskd those who were sounding the alarm. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.....and there's a whole lot of people promoting doing nothing about these problems.
I’m fine speaking for people who live in the South in saying that we don’t really come into contact with “extreme-right” , “nazi” , “Q anon” , “hitler” or whatever the most recent slang term is. On the other side, all you have to do is spend a few minutes walking around a city in California or Portland and you’ll come into contact with Antifa left-wing individuals who are determined to cause havoc. Why is that?
Congress needs a Hacksaw Iron Sheik moment.
I think I have identified the disconnect here. You apparently think that 'peaceful transition of power' only applies to the day when power changes hands.
Like I said- blissful ignorance.
Bet.
That survey is not designed to get at people's actual beliefs. It's designed to bait them into giving their opinion on the ruling class. An opinion that's not completely baseless. It does seem pretty likely there have been some pretty connected people working to protect Epstein's clients and/or blackmail victims. But that doesn't mean they actually believe those people have control or are actual satan worshipers.
No we aren't, unless you think the Communist Party in this country was as popular as it was in the early 1930s or that a Great Depression is causing Americans to join extremist parties intent on destroying democracy. There's a strand of conservatism that claims America is in its Weimar stage because of the cultural left and the insistence that all cultural norms once accepted are actually oppressive and need to be abolished. I don't believe it and you just posted some generalizations. I bet someone could point out that we're like the 1890s and the Gilded Age too. Doesn't make it so. I think we're like the late Roman Republic, I mean Roman Empire, I mean early Stuart Dynasty, I mean late Han Dynasty, I mean....
This blissful ignorance argument isn’t holding any water. I thought you’d come back with something better.
Any good pollster can make his survey results say whatever he wants them to. It's all in how you pick your sample to survey and how you structure and word the questions.
Dude.....no we aren't. That's ridiculous. People are generally split down the middle as far are right or left leaning. We aren't in a deep depression. We don't have a slick-talking unifier blaming all our problems on a race of people. If either side ever had that guy rise up.....the best they could do is convince half the country, and not even that, the propaganda is almost impossible to spread, because of the sheer amount of media. People aren't being kept in the dark about anything in America. We are actually bombarded with information.
I dont view people that own guns to be by default, a far right extremist.
people said that in Germany too. They GAVE Hitler power. They convinced themselves it was all fine.
Not really.
true. But a significant chuck thinks we are.
we dont?
Hitler only had 1/3 the country.
I wish that were true.
It's hardly new or controversial is right. Prior to gender studies, basic history showed how different societies were different but also similar. Gender studies just came up with new b.s. Gender studies is mostly horseshit theorizing devoid of actual science about human behavior and genetic and neurological influences on choices and behavior. Just pick up a gender studies journal to see how crazy that stuff is. Also, look up the Grievance Studies Affair to see how one prof and a couple of others wrote make believe articles that used applied gender and feminist theory and got published in academic journals.
This is an argument that would only hold weight if someone like Trump caused that Party to lose elections. Trump has shown that if a Hitler-type took power in the GOP....there's nothing in place to stop him. There's really not any way to debate against that, it's plain as day at this point. The only thing that stopped(?) Trump is his sheer incompetence. But even that clown sheered right through the norms that have held democracy in place in this country through thick and thin. They're gone. The next would be quasi-dictator has his roadmap to power. The GOP WANTS that result....and eventually they will find their guy.
Thanks for that. I'm not sure I want to watch it in a theater. I want to watch it the way Joey read the shining, to be able put it away for a minute.
Trump's a buffoon and narcissist with no coherent ideology. Lots of people in other countries have supported similar people (caudillismos south of the border) and he and his candidates have lost elections. Democracy is fine. Trump couldn't even get a wall built. Some dictator he is. The GOP has a base that's behaving like an ethnic group and supporting their guy. Identity politics does that. Maybe we need to ditch that nonsense.
And Trump, unlike actual Nazis, appears to be anti-war. It's the Bushes, Clintons, Bidens and Obamas who embrace militarism a lot more.
The secret to trolling and sarcasm is to leave genuine doubt as to whether somebody is that stupid or whether they are being sarcastic/trolling. And I have to give it to you, in that you do a great job of walking that line. I'm pretty sure you're trolling and that you can't be that stupid, but you're just believable enough to leave that nagging doubt.
Trump was anti-war?
Its reddit if there were no oversight and focused fully on depravity, illegal images, violence, etc.
Jan 6 was pretty disgraceful. I'm glad people are being sent to prison for participating in it. But, it had no chance of succeeding. It's pretty fascinating to see all the people who support Trump not end up well afterwards, especially ordinary Americans prone to making poor decisions. That Pillow Guy, an incredibly successful entrepreneur, lost a fortune too.The transfer of power was anything but peaceful. People erected gallows at the Capitol, and chanted 'Hang Mike Pence' because he was going to certify the election. The crowd then forced their way into the building which caused Pence, as well as legislators from both parties, to go into secure hiding.
Trump later defended the group in an interview by saying the anger was warranted due to the fraudulent election(that still has never been shown to be...fraudulent).
People were calling for the VP to be hung, and then rushed into the building where he was and forced the VP and others into hiding.
...but the transition of power was peaceful according to you.
"appears to be anti-war"
Your premise is that the extreme right is close to embarking on a nazi-type blitzkrieg. They aren't. They don't have that type of power. Trump doesn't have near the power of a Hitler. It's not even close, he can't even keep his Twitter from being locked.people said that in Germany too. They GAVE Hitler power. They convinced themselves it was all fine.
Not really.
true. But a significant chuck thinks we are.
we dont?
Hitler only had 1/3 the country.
I wish that were true.
If the VP had been like Trump and his crowd, it would have succeeded. If the swing state SOS had been, it would have succeeded. Next time, they will be, the loons have seen to that. If we ever elect someone like that as POTUS again, he will see to it that he never loses an election again. There just aren't enough leaders anymore that will stand up and stop it.
I watched the Dems barely beat an incompetent buffoon, whose buffonish attempt at a coup only failed because his own VP and a couple state SoSs weren't on board. What were you watching?
Yes. You have quite the imagination if you believe this: "whose buffonish attempt at a coup only failed because his own VP and a couple state SoSs weren't on board." Our Constitutional framework isn't that easy to defeat.
You sound way too paranoid, like some of the worst of the right-wing Qanon types.
O that's right, it's all the right wing wacko's fault that everything is falling apart and faith in our institutions is waning. Has nothing to do with the left wing wackos.
Things really aren't falling apart. Well, our infrastructure needs to be worked on. For most Americans, today is one of the best times to be alive in history.
