frigidweirdo
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Considering it's only the written word and I can't see your facial inflections and body language (easy to confuse/misinterpret peoples meanings) plus it almost looks like you are possibly comparing Trump with Hitler............ That's why I phrased it the way I did; "here's what it may look like, is that correct or not?" A simple yes or no would have sufficed.It appears that you believe all or most conservatives are really fascist and racist at heart or am I wrong?It doesn't grow unless you believe that most Americans don't believe in freedom, don't hate Nazism or any other form of totalitarian government. This country isn't the white enclave it used to be with 18th and early to mid 19th century mindsets. You worry too much about nothing and using violence to get one's point accross is unlawful, I don't care who does it. Again we are a nation of laws not a nation of mob rule.The problem is, if people don't worry about it, then it grows. What those on the left did was use violence and get the message out there. The media has therefore been full of the message that might otherwise have been ignored.
The discussion is out there and kids are seeing this discussion, and it's mostly anti-Nazi.
I think Trump got elected. I think there are enough Americans out there to make it happen.
Hitler got elected with what, 33% of the vote? 33.09% actually. Trump got 46.1%
How did Hitler go from 33% of the vote to 92% of the vote later that year? He played politics. He stirred things up, he used nationalism, he used bullying, he burned things down.
Yes, it was a different system, and it would be harder for neo-Nazis to take over, but what Hitler did wasn't easy.
Could it happen in the US?
Well, you get someone like Trump, make him a bit more supportive of the neo-Nazis, get a few Congressmen, start making stuff up and get a few Supreme Court justices thrown off the court, put your own people in, you just made it two out of three. What about Congress? Well, you start fiddling with stuff, changing boundaries, preventing a few people from being able to vote here and there and suddenly you've got yourself a nice old majority that can't be damaged in Congress.
Then if you can get enough state legislatures on board, you can change the constitution, unless you got the Supreme Court to change their meaning on what the Constitution means, which has also happened in the past.
The US system is open to abuse because it has been abused, all it takes is someone with the energy and charisma to push it through, and it could happen.
It appears does it? How is that? What in what I have written gives you any hint that I think all or most conservatives are racists?
Well I a simple yes or no might have sufficed, but then I couldn't see your facial inflections and body language....
Or perhaps you can just take me on what I said. I do try, unless I'm being heavily sarcastic, to get my meaning across as much as possible.
Trump has run his election on emotion and Nationalism. So too did Hitler. However I did say if someone more racist, but doing what Trump has done, then you never really know what you could get. Am I comparing Hitler to Trump? A little. Am I saying Trump is Hitler? No, I'm not. Though I do think Trump is dangerous, Hitler was a completely different matter.