Steve, again I understand your aversion, but in my opinion, you are greatly overestimating Mr. Trump by calling him Fuhrer Trump. If he was a tyrant, it appears to me that he was not a very capable one. He was only able to remain in power for 4 years, a single mandate. Not such a big achievement of tyranny.
Also, I think that by speaking about him again and again, you are giving him perhaps strength and importance, even though I understand sometimes that's just as a reply to Eric.
I respect your opinion mccoy and that of others here as well, I have never hinted I am infallible in my evaluations of others. But I see a very danger to democracy itself with Fuhrer Trump, he is not the kind of man that respects any type of human decisions on who should be elected. His praise always went to tyrants across the globe. He attempted to change the judicial system, undermine voting rights, and pardoned hard core criminals in this nation. What beacon of democracy would be left if he became President again? He needs to be recognized for what he is; a thug.
It is not just a reply to Eric but rather a testimony and evaluation by many psychiatrists around the world. He is a sociopath, and shows no remorse in his criminal acts against humanity. In modern psychiatry he would be classified in, Antisocial personality disorder. I can point to countless psychiatrists that would characterize his behavior as such, besides being a narcissist and an egomaniac. He would be a very dangerous example to the world if he comes to power again. Furhrer Trump is the most dangerous example to democracy this nation has ever witnessed as ‘President’. I recognized this very early on and have no sane reason to retract or even temper that intuition. I have always felt this to be true and would gladly put an end to such comments if I did not recognize his criminal mentality and cult like following similar to Charles Manson.
Hitler on peace
From Adolf Hitler, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939. London: Oxford University Press, 1942.
2 February 1933: Any one like myself who knows what war is is aware of what a squandering of effort, or rather consumption of strength, is involved. (p. 1003)
23 March 1933: The German nation wishes to live in peace with the rest of the world. (pp. 1016-17)
17 May 1933: It is, however, in the interests of all that present-day problems should be solved in a reasonable and final manner. No new European war could improve the unsatisfactory conditions of the present day.
On the contrary, the application of violence of any kind in Europe could have no favourable effect upon the political or economic position which exists to-day. Even the ultimate effect would be to increase the disturbance of European equilibrium and thus, in one manner or another, to sow the seed of further conflicts and complications.
The result would be fresh wars, fresh uncertainty, and fresh economic distress. The outbreak of such infinite madness, however, would necessarily cause the collapse of the present social and political order. A Europe sinking into Communistic chaos would bring about a crisis, the extent and duration of which could not be foreseen.
It is the earnest desire of the National Government of the German Reich to prevent such a disturbing development by means of its honest and active co-operation. (p. 1046)
Fuhrer Trump?
Steve, the comparison is funny but I believe not very close to reality.
Trump is a picturesque guy who spoke what he thought and therefore hated by many. I don't like him particularly and he has shot himself in the foot after the facts of Capitol Hill, revealing to be not too cunning. However, he represented about 50% of Americans, who wanted in power a figure which was less political and more business-like. And who disliked the excesses of the left. He had to have some qualities to become the POTUS.
Hitler was a totally different ballgame. A sinister personage, inspired by a powerful demon, who was able to deceive most Germans and above all the Catholic Church. And he was proud of the latter. He was voted chancellor by 90% of Germans if I'm not wrong, Uwe will correct me in case.
Hitler was a demonic genius, dedicated to the obliteration of a whole ethnic group, who organized an invincible army. After a few years though his brain started to lose the initial efficiency, maybe it was the result of the demonic suggestions, which ended up destabilizing his mind. And causing his doom, together with the ruin of a whole nation, with the facts recounted by Uwe that are well known.
Trump seems to be nothing like that. He was not too cunning, nor evil, as the facts have shown.
Your evaluation seems unlikely to me mccoy. Hitler did not learn from history and the aggression of Napoleon into Russia. In fact he made the grave error of his efforts to conquer, of fighting on three fronts at the same time; Asia, Russia and Europe.
Trump also relies on his cult like charisma, and the danger of his followers is that they willingly and complacently follow his lead and influence, similar to Charles Manson, Hitler and Putin.
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The prevailing narrative is called Doublethink it is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy.
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