(March 4, 2016 at 9:21 am)pool the great Wrote: Come to think of it, a fuck head like Trump recieving these many votes means that there are that many Americans that support his ideas. How do you people live in peace knowing that the next person you meet might very well be a Trump fan?
Every population has its share of people who in different circumstances would be fully fledged members of a fascist party. What Trump has done is to show us who they are. These kind of people aren't hard to spot once you know what to look for. These are people who lack empathy and who will happily steal from or hurt others when they recognise that they can get away with it without consequence. Or people who lack critical thinking skills who are ready to turn a blind eye, preferring instead to have their own comfortable prejudices confirmed to them by the media and ignore questions that they cannot answer.
All it takes is a lack of imagination and a sustained willingness to accept what you are told without question. Read Rudolf Hoess's autobiography, the commandant of Auschwitz if you want a first hand account of a genocidal mass murderer. There is nothing particularly abnormal about how that man thought. If he had been fighting for another side he might even have been decorated as a war hero considering how easy it was for him to stay cool in combat and kill people. Or he could have made a good politician with a logistical mind like that. Yet while murdering millions of Jews he loved his family and recognised the suffering that he caused in others.
Even if Trump doesn't get in, the problem remains. The conversation has moved so far to the right now it drags the left along with it. Check out that video I posted earlier of Bush senior and Reagan debating immigration back in 1980. They seem like bleeding heart liberals compared to even the democrats nowadays. And there is still the disenfranchised segment of the population who are angry and prefer the option of destroying everything to 'shake things up'.
