Hey! Dictators are supposed to be eloquent and charismatic!!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

How does someone with close to a 60% DISAPPROVAL rating get this crappy Congress to go along with his dismantling of the Constitution? Exactly what electorate are they representing? What the hell is going on?!!!:wtf:

[Waya]

1. Dictators also rule by fear........

.....bullying and brutality......

[fasttense]

2. Look at the wimpy, egotist Hitler

He was such a nerd. He was ugly and seriously lacked social skills. Yet look what he did to Germany. The crazy King George lacks social skills and resembles a chimp. Yet he has managed to take power away from congress and the people, and destroy the Constitution. He has vested the executive branch with powers that belong to the congress and the judiciary. We are no longer a democracy but a dictatorship. He has done the bidding of the robber barons. Time to rise up and take action.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Not necessarily.

If you watch Hitler speak, he has a formula of starting in a soft, hesitant voice. He's searching for the "right" words (or making an appearance of that). He then progresses by stepping up the cadence, raising the volume of his voice, gesticulating. He crescendos by shouting, screaming, you know, losing it. And he ends with the classic "Sieg Heil!" The audience eats it up.

Maybe that's charisma, but I say it's audience manipulation the way theatre affects the masses. It certainly isn't eloquence.

[Bridget Burke]

4. I saw a Hitler speech a few years ago....

On the History Channel, no doubt. I'd studied German for ONE year, a long time ago. But I understood most of what he said. It was frightening.

Hitler was an excellent orator.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. He got experience from speaking in smokey Bierkellers (beer halls)

during the 1920s. He knew which words and gestures provoked an audience.

[Hav]

7. .

I agree with you, I never saw Hitler as eloquent. I always thought that he was a pretty bad speaker with ridiculous gestures. Comedians had an easy job to mock him by just imitating the way he moved his arms and so on. Bad voice, bad delivery, mostly shouting.
So I think that it was more about what he said that resonated with the masses...which actually makes it worse.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Where are all the posters of happy people?

You know, like this:

[Hav]

8. More like this...

Jesus Camp or a Repub meeting? You decide:

[PassingFair]

9. The poor, and the religious, those with their "lumps in the bed"

next to them, those who are scared of the TV,
the hypocrites, the disenfranchised, racist,
rural masses are getting their own back.

GET USED TO IT.