Thursday, October 11, 2018

Trump Doing His Hitler Thing

UNLESS I'M DREAMING a very bad dream, President Trump has been having campaign rallies on a regular basis ever since he was sworn in, correct? Am I imagining this? No, I'm not. These rallies are full of high intensity emotional excitement, much of it anger, as the President screams insults and threats at his opponents, and proclaims his own greatness, how many accomplishments and victories his administration has already achieved in making American great again, and incites anger at all the usual suspects, Hillary Clinton, Democratic congressional leaders, the media, you know the list. On many occasions I and many other people with some historical knowledge have compared the Trump phenomena, including his followers to Hitler and his followers, but these rallies take the cake, these frenetic, frothing, screeching semi religious revivals are the most Hitleresque aspect of Trump of all. During the one the other day the mob was chanting "lock her up", yet again, but this time referring to Diane Feinstein who, according to Trump, has a secret [piece of legislation in Congress called the "Open Borders Bill", which she soon intends to spring on the American people, maybe after the elections, when Feinstein hopes there will be a Democratic Congress. The whole thing is a lie, of course, completely made up by The Great Prevaricator, our pathological liar president. He must be mentally ill, to tell so many huge, obviously fabricated lies in front of so many people, without the slightest show of shame, or humor, or guilt. Even more frightening is the sheer number of people who brainwash themselves to believe him. What must their mental illness be, some complex combination of schizophrenia, paranoia, stress, denial, and delusion? these weird rallies are exact duplicates of the sort Hitler and other dictators tend to stage, to mobilize and inflame their base of support, which is always a minority of the population, but a very frightening, vociferous minority. Trump's shocking pathological lying, and the willingness of his followers to either overlook or embrace the lies are extremely alarming, perhaps harbingers of an America with out of control culture, full of anger, aggression, and fantasy. You can almost see Trump talking his minions into believing that not only would it be in the best interests of the world to become more like America, but that it is America's sacred duty to Americanize the world, by whatever means necessary, and if that proves impossible, then the rest of the world is a deadly threat to America, and must be dealt with strongly. And what about America's enemies within, the liberals, the Jews, the minorities....will it become "necessary" to "deal with" them as well, with Trump leading his minority faction of extreme conservative patriots determined to make America great again, as it once was and is finally becoming again, to ever greater heights of virtue and power? Stranger things have happened.

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