(December 21, 2020 at 11:05 am)Brian37 Wrote: ^^^^^^^ This.
Never in my life would I have ever thought that our military would have to make public statements saying they would not get involved in negating an election.
It isn't about one man. It is about the long term damage Trump can cause, even after he leaves office.
Germany didn't fall in a day. It took over a decade to go from an open democracy to a fascist state.
We got a breather with Biden, but democracy has to be defended from generation to generation. It isn't a given.
Right now I don't see America falling, but we will get pockets of domestic terrorists for sure. But that cannot grow and we cant let his far gone base on the extreme right grow.
I most certainly want to be wrong and everything will be ok. But the fact that Trump got elected in the first place still should be a warning not to take anything for granted.
Yes, I agree with everything you said. The only question I have is what can we do? How do we stop the growth of this demented ideology? Trump's ideology is that of protectionism, racism, nationalism and he embraces religion as a way to inspire support. Trump doesn't have a religious bone in his body. Hitler used all of these same elements and he had the backing of a large swath of the population because in the short term, his tactics produced the results that mattered to them. I can tell you that of the people I know who are Trump supporters, they feel the same way even though I know the reality is much more complicated. All they see is low unemployment and high stock market and think Trump is a genius. How do we convince them otherwise?
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
