(June 27, 2018 at 1:02 pm)Cathooloo Wrote:(June 27, 2018 at 10:54 am)henryp Wrote: "Vote for our guy, or you're a nazi!", I imagine, seems juvenile.
...and your labeling everything you don't like as extreme far left isn't?
We don't have an extreme far left in this country, at least not one that has any political power, and no, the Democratic Party isn't it.
Cry me a river. FWIW, I don't use the Nazi pejorative, but I'm happy to label people who support fascist polices as such.
Again, we are not at a point in political history to claim "That can't happen here."
I agree.
And when you have 50 former REPUBLICAN law agents warn of political scapegoating and where it can damage national and global stability, you cannot say it is partisan.
If the GOP were the party of Lincoln were now as it was back then, I'd be a republican. If the GOP were the party of Teddy as it was back then, I'd be a republican.
And it is a myth that democrats all love the USSR and Cuba. WE DONT! I hate one party states and theocracies which are simply religious one party states.
It isn't a "pejorative" at this point in history.
Trump has during his run and still is..
1. Attacking his own, McCain
2. Vilifying the free press.
3. Vilifying his own intel
4. Scapegoating other nations and races and religions.
The same tactics any authoritarian uses.
If you don't want to use "Nazi" that is ok too, Stalin did it, and even China cracks down on dissent.
Those steps I listed above are how one consolidates power and squashes dissent.
But Trump is literally using authoritarian tactics, lets not pretend only Nazis used authoritarian tactics. But they still did, so it is not a "pejorative".