(January 9, 2017 at 1:35 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Humor transcends all. If you can't laugh in this fucked up world what can ya do? Masturbate yourself to death? Oh wait I already do that. Carry on.
Not just humor, or just condemnation, but BOTH. Ridicule and satire and blasphemy are necessary in a free society. But when you see the clear attempts at political demagoguery, that is where the gloves verbally have to come off with the strongest condemnation.
Some here and elsewhere, not just this website, may be deluding themselves thinking our system will automatically protect us. NO, again, when Hitler first started making noise and getting attention, their democracy was still in tact. It took years for him to consolidate power and destroy it. I really do warn people not to say I am over reacting. I am not. It doesn't even have to be him to be the one who finally destroys it, but if more politicians see his dirty tactic as a way to win, that growing tactic as a long term tactic most certainly can.
It is only our vigilance that can prevent that. I'd take Trump very seriously, both in ridiculing him making fun of him and condemning him. Not to silence dissent ourselves, but to prevent a very dark road from happening.
