(February 24, 2016 at 12:04 pm)KUSA Wrote: None of this is true. I am in fact, an educated businessman. You are a 16 year old child that can't even vote.
(February 24, 2016 at 11:24 am)KUSA Wrote:(February 24, 2016 at 10:56 am)Mathilda Wrote: A well armed militia? Isn't that the common argument from gun nuts about how they need guns to protect themselves from the government?The "well armed militia" will support Trump. It's the liberals without guns that won't like him.
You really are displaying the naivety of a 16 year old. I suggest that you read The Anatomy of Fascism. Yes I know it's a book and worse than that it's erudite got long words but basically Trump is following text book methods for starting a fascist movement.
He's an outsider rather than part of the establishment. He's pandering to populist prejudices (In Trump's case demonising Mexicans and Muslims). He's a cult of personality (he refers to himself in the third person) and his followers are attracted to him rather than his policies (you said yourself that you want to vote for him because you like him as a person). He's capitalising on anger and resentment by stoking it. Fascist leaders also had their own militias to cause trouble to add pressure to the government of the day. An overwhelming theme of their movements was exceptionalism. They believed that their nation was the greatest on Earth and they advocated using force to steal from other countries (e.g. Trump stealing from Mexico to pay for his wall)
Here's the thing, the fascist movements that were successful abandoned all their promises to their initial followers when they had to make deals to get more power. Sometimes they made 180 degree U-turns. The movements that stuck to their ideological roots never became anything more than fringe movements. So if Trump did get into power, prepare to be disappointed.
If you had been born in Europe around 70 years Kusa you would have been a fascist on the wrong side of history.
There is one fundamental difference. Unlike Trump who has filed for bankruptcy multiple times, the fascist movements that made it into power in Europe were actually competent.
