2016 Postmortem
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Just read this on Huffington. I'm afraid discussing tRump has invalidated Goodwin's Law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/trumps-proposed-first-mov_b_11084210.html
Trumps Proposed First Move Eerily Like Hitlers
As a Jew, I dont like people making Hitler comparisons. I dont like when they do it to President Obama. I didnt like when people did it to President Bush. There was only one Hitler, and we have not had a politician who rose to that level yet.
That said, a chill went down my spine when I saw private remarks from Chris Christie, regarding one of Donald Trumps first moves, if he is elected. Reuters reports:If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.
Why is this scary? It is literally one of the first moves made by Adolf Hitler, upon democratically attaining power.
The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed just two months after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. It was such a major piece of his plan to ultimately become dictator, that the Holocaust Museum notes it on their timeline of events:The German government issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums), which excludes Jews and other political opponents of the Nazis from all civil service positions.
Gutting government of any civil service officers who are not completely and blindly loyal to the new leader usually is one of the first moves of someone looking to become a dictator. Another act is one Trump previously voiced support for - tighter control over a free press.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)If they didn't want comparisons to Germany in the 1930's, they wouldn't have modeled their entire convention on the film, "TRiUMPh of the Will". (
)Try watching the film and NOT comparing it to what happened this past week in Cleveland.
From his arrival by helicopter after a short hop from the airport next door to the convention center (to the theme music of "Air Force One" ; to the tone and content of his acceptance speech (blaming the auslanders...er...uh.., 'immigrants and refugees', for all of the country's problems); to the blind adoration and support of the duped masses with absolutely no dissent allowed; and to the over-the-top rhetoric and grandiose staging, the tRump campaign appears to have been using the film as a blueprint for a rise to power.
They are using Leni Riefenstahl's "TRiUMPh of the Will"as a model. For the first time since I first voted in 1972 I am truly scared of the candidate from what used to be a major political party.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)...with his Nuremberg Rally speech, accepting the National Socialis....um, I mean... Republican Party nomination.
elmac
(4,642 posts)but I will call, not compare, the republican party fascists because that is what they are.
keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)If he was truly a Nazi, the Bush family would support him as they did before and during WWll.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts)He established a super pac to thwart both reelection campaigns.
IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)so if he removes latinos for obviously being not from America, yet somehow snuck here illegally to steal judge and federal government positions away from true americans, then who is next?
He has reportedly claimed that blacks are lazy and he doesn't want them in accounting positions. He has repeatedly said that he likes to have short guys in yarmulkes counting his money and that Jewish people are good at negotiating deals. The nazis made statements like that to mock the Jews.
A trump presidency is not going to be good for people who don't look like the cheeto faced blonde bastard. Be wary of when Trump supporters talk about "European-Americans" and their heritage. Those assholes don't consider Jewish people to be European-American and they often don't have much affinity for whites with southern European heritage or the Catholic faith either.
And at some point they could come after anyone who has ever shown any support for the Democratic party, then many many DUers will be spared.