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I watched Joe Scarborough say this morning on MSNBC that he didn't think the Trump pledge was a big deal, after all, newly sworn in immigrants also raise their right hands to pledge, and nobody thinks they're Nazi's.
Then I just heard another moron on Fox News say that people in court raise their right hands in court, and certainly that's not Fascist.
Don't they get it? The Trump pledge is akin to Hitler's because it is a mass pledge to an individual.
A pledge to God, country or an organization is not a mass pledge to an individual, and is generally acceptable.
A pledge to an individual is not acceptable, except to your spouse.
Dopes
0rganism
(23,970 posts)"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair
louis c
(8,652 posts)I think I'll use it.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)He is good for ratings. That is all that matters.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)donna123
(182 posts)When I saw this, I almost wondered if it was a joke. I do believe that there was no Hitler analogy intended (unlike some of the other stuff Trump has done that appears to be a nod and wink to white supremacist stuff) and yet Trump and his followers don't seem to get the point that you make about mass pledges. It kinda funny in a way but then, it's scary yet again.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)It's a pledge that they "Solemnly Swear to vote for Donald J. Trump".
Not an organization, not a country, not God. An individual.
Raise your right hand and swear...............
What if I was there just to listen? Lots of voters have gone to different candidates' rallies just to educate themselves about the candidates. I live in Boston. I have traveled to New Hampshire to hear or meet a candidate I didn't even vote for in Massachusetts.
This year I went to a Bernie rally in New Hampshire, yet I voted for Hillary on March 1 in Massachusetts.
Mass political pledging in America is just not done.
Tell me where you ever saw that before for an individual.
Anytime, Anywhere, other than Nuremberg