(November 27, 2016 at 12:09 pm)Full Circle Wrote:(November 26, 2016 at 10:31 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No moron, they are alike in attitude. BOTH are selfish narcissists and opportunists. They are not alike only in the context of the governments but both ran selling populism and both like to be feared.
It is not off topic. When you have even 50 Republican former law agents calling his rhetoric dangerous that goes way beyond "boorish" it is TOXIC and can lead to deaths in more wars, in a very literal sense. I only agree that right now Trump has a far way to go, true. But if more of his loyalist take the same tactics he did to win more elections that sets the very same road long term.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/us/pol....html?_r=0
He likes the fear and is ruthless in his business dealings. He conned his way to the presidency by selling the same hyper nationalism populist salespitch. Again, the only difference between Trump and Castro, or Hitler for that matter, is that we are still enough in tact that he is limited. BUT HIS TONE is toxic, both with global diplomacy which right now is the biggest concern, but domestically if GOP wins more elections replicating his demagoguery we will have a a one party state.
You could have stated your case without the epithet. You are certainly as obnoxious on this forum as over on TTA.
While I dislike and distrust Trump, to compare him to Castro is a flight of imagination. It is making Castro sound benign. Should the American public be vigilant? Absolutely. When he starts to jail dissidents and reporters and executes a few then your comparison will have merit. Until then Chicken Little try to remain grounded in reality.
I AM grounded in reality. Our own history is full of very horrible transgressions to certain groups of people and those transgressions WERE based on otherism and xenophobia and sold with political demagoguery. AGAIN it isn't that he can topple the government on day one, or in 2 years or even 8 years. HIS TONE is TOXIC and if more politicians adapt that tactic to win, it can and WILL lead to the same horrors of the past.
We had slavery, we committed genocide against Native Americans, we had black lynchings and at one point a majority of congress being members of the KKK. And the internment camps of innocent Japanese. The amount of hate groups shot through the roof upon Obama's first election. Now we see Trump filling his staff with anti LGBT asshole pence and won with strategist and racist Breitbart asshole Bannon.
Vigilance ABSOLUTELY which is why everyone should remind everyone else of the past so we dont repeat it. But right now it seems we are regressing a bit.
