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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I'm so sick and tired of hearing that Donald Trump is just like Hitler"
Maybe so,
But the people who support Trump are just like the people who supported Hitler.
They fall for the same shit, they enjoy being conned, they readily believe lies, they have blind loyalty to the detriment of their own country, they worship ignorance and denigrate knowledge.
Perhaps our country is still strong enough to withstand a demagogue who wants to be a dictator, but if more people think like Trump supporters now, and into the future, our country, as we know it, may not survive.
doc03
(35,431 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Zambero
(8,978 posts)Unlike Trump, Hitler was fond of animals and was a vegetarian.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... and the parallels are STRIKING and FRIGHTENING. The speeches, the tactics, the blaming, etc... followed by how the gullible followers just EAT IT ALL UP, and how they become increasingly violent and complicit.
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)Donald Trump is exactly like Hitler, and his supporters are too.
If you don't want to be called a Nazi, then don't think, talk, and act like a fucking Nazi.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Hitler had a multi decade long agenda and plan to achieve that agenda. Trump does not know what he is doing tomorrow AM.
Hitler advocated the removal/destruction of an entire racial/ethnic group. Despite Trumps obvious racism/bigotry he is not advocating that. And before saying that you know he would, remember he has not. And Hitler did.
Hitler operated in a wrecked nation that just lost 2 million men and had no Democratic tradition and no real rule of law. In fact, Germany had only been a nation for 60 years. We are, well not like that.
I hate trump with the heat of white hot hell. But we do ourselves no favors comparing him to Hitler.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)... by time the Nazis took power in the German parliament so relatively few knew of the industrial level murder committed by the Nazis.
The Trump administration ... IS ... like Hitlers administrtation though that was
- Mostly run by out and out anti state thugs
- Full of people with the overt reasoning of enriching themselves
- Full of lazy thinking sycophants that made everyone outside their cult the enemy