Donald Trump

[SebastianBlue]

All sounds a bit Hitler Youth, to me.

That was the allusion.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

That was the allusion.

It’s like they aren’t even hiding it anymore.
This election is a real worry for the US.

 

[SebastianBlue]

It’s like they aren’t even hiding it anymore.
This election is a real worry for the US.

Part of the autocrat’s strategy of seizing and maintaining power is to not to hide the lawlessness and/or immorality, even whilst denying what they are doing is wrong.

To act, without real consequence (if they can manage it), in spite of their actions being obviously unjust and wicked, is one of the ultimate ways to dishearten, frighten, and dissolve hitherto righteous opposition. It is meant to imbue hopelessness and cultivate a sense of futility in efforts to oppose them. It is a mark of psychopathy. It is a sickening “thrill”.

Putin is a master of it — he’ll do something evil and illegal and then act as if he never did it, even though everyone knows he did it, why he did it, and that he knows they know. He’ll order the poisoning of a dissident and then publicly say he desperately hopes they recover quickly and that he will ensure they have the very best care. The doing it, in spite of the visibility, with no repercussions, builds power. It establishes that they are above the law; that consequences are for lesser people. And that the lesser people are the ones that should worry about their words and actions.

And Trump’s handlers, among them Miller and Barr, have been taking copious notes.

They flood the field with these sorts of ‘you know we know you know’ actions and statements. Little by little they chip away at opposition resolve, muddy the waters for the less ardent observers (so it becomes more difficult to even discern what they are doing because of the sheer volume of lawlessness and depravity), and degrade the checks and balances meant to stop them from doing it all in the first place.

It’s a strategy we have seen before and will see again until oblivion. We just have to hope oblivion isn’t soon, in this case.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

It’s like they aren’t even hiding it anymore.
This election is a real worry for the US.

Were they ever hiding it?

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Trump Youth

This fucker is pulling out all the stops on the organ. His support will be thinking its un American not to vote for him.

I would like to think that idea`s like that would get laugh at over here, though it will go down a storm with the flag waving morons who don`t see it for what it is.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Ban me pal.The vitriol from the left is unbelievable.

Oh Dear

 

[Vic]

Now he's lying about Churchill lying.....

At 4.30....

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Ban me pal.The vitriol from the left is unbelievable.

Vitriol and left?

Well, you've got me wrong on both counts.

Just because someone despises a criminal,despot wannabe dictator it doesn't automatically make them a 'leftie'.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Vitriol and left?

Well, you've got me wrong on both counts.

Just because someone despises a criminal,despot wannabe dictator it doesn't automatically make them a 'leftie'.

You mean you aren’t on your way to destroy Mount Rushmore???

 

[SebastianBlue]

Vitriol and left?

Well, you've got me wrong on both counts.

Just because someone despises a criminal,despot wannabe dictator it doesn't automatically make them a 'leftie'.

You’ll always be a ‘leftie’ in my heart, you rabble-rousing scoundrel.

You mean you aren’t on your way to destroy Mount Rushmore???

No, that’s Project 1619 (the amount of sticks of dynamite needed to do the job).