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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is who they have always been, they are just not pretending anymore....
THISThe Paranoid Style is so very very Trumpian... the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary; the refusal to accept the ineluctable limitations and imperfections of human existence, such as transience, dissention, conflict, fallibility whether intellectual or moral. . . systematized misinterpretations, always gross and often grotesque. Frank Cohen
PLUS THIS
Prosecutorial animus or favouritism be like It is in this realm in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself. Robert Jackson
EQUALS THIS
Totalitarian wannabees comparisons with the fascist model of leadership are far too close for comfort... Hitler lied shamelessly about himself and about his enemies. He convinced millions of men and women that he cared for them deeply when, in fact, he would have willingly sacrificed them all. His murderous ambition, avowed racism, and utter immorality were given the thinnest mask, and yet millions of Germans were drawn to Hitler precisely because he seemed authentic. They screamed, Sieg Heil with happiness in their hearts, because they thought they were creating a better world. Madeleine K. Albright
AND THIS
They hate the rule of law, they despise it because it attempts to limit the worst excesses of their destructive rule...Under the Nazis, law was debased beyond recognition. It became a tool of hatred and viciousness the very antithesis of everything normally connoted by the notion of law: justice, goodness, fairness, due process, protection of the individual against the excesses of government, even morality. Harry Reicher
The desecration of the rule of law and the destroying of democracy is happening before our very eyes, although for the theocratic wankers that surround Trump and enable him to literally piss all over the constitution, this makes a perverse kind of sense, because a "Christian" nation under "God' would be, literally, a theocratic fascist dictatorship as they send in BORTAC 'SWAT' (brown shirts) tooled up thugs to democratic cities across the nation, in yet another intimidatory salvo, this is who they have always been, they are just not pretending anymore .
vlyons
(10,252 posts)He commanded his eastern army to stand and die fighting, when they were surrounded. And in the end, he sent out young boys, all that was left, to defend Berlin against the invading Russians. Before he committed suicide, he wanted all Germans to be annihilated, because they were not strong enough to win the war.
Perhaps you've seen pictures of Berlin and other German cities once the war ended. Trump never admits a mistake, never apologizes for the harm he does, never accepts responsibility, when he gets caught cheating and stealing and fraud.
They masquerade as Christians, but there is no Christian charity or loving one's neighbor, or the self-discipline to not lie, steal, kill, or cultivate hatred and ill-will. All that matters to them is money and the power to keep the money rolling in.
Wounded Bear
(58,674 posts)and I guess it's now almost centuries as we approach the bi-centennial of the 13th Amendment.
Blacks and Hispanics have been experiencing this all along. In time, us white folks will feel the lash, make no mistake.
Remember, "If you're not with us, you're against us." Their words, not mine.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)We still have the freedom to criticize. Thats a huge deal. They are masters now at manipulating the masses. We must keep on keeping on!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Their personalities are disgusting.
So they wear masks so they avoid detection of just how fucked up they are.
bucolic_frolic
(43,218 posts)They're firing on all cylinders now