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In 2019 the principles of Godwins law no longer apply. FACT
Initech
(100,043 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,570 posts)The difference now is that "power/control" is in the crazy mix and is effecting the whole country and even other countries negatively. His mommy and daddy made this monster.
Initech
(100,043 posts)"Ever try going mad without power? It's boring, no one listen to you!"
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)If it goosesteps like a fascist...call him a fascist.
Kid Berwyn
(14,808 posts)excerpted from the book
The Splendid Blond Beast
by Christopher Simpson
Common Courage Press, 1995
Friedrich Nietzsche called the aristocratic predators who write society's laws "the splendid blond beast" precisely because they so often behave as though they are beyond the reach of elementary morality. As he saw things, these elites have cut a path toward a certain sort of excellence consisting mainly of the exercise of power at the expense of others. When dealing with ordinary people, he said, they "revert to the innocence of wild animals.... We can imagine them returning from an orgy of murder, arson, rape and torture, jubilant and at peace with themselves as though they had committed a fraternity prank-convinced, moreover, that the poets for a long time to come will have something to sing about and to praise.'' Their brutality was true courage, Nietzsche thought, and the foundation of social order.
Today genocide-the deliberate destruction of a racial, cultural, or political group-is the paramount example of the institutionalized and sanctioned violence of which Nietzsche spoke. Genocide has been a basic mechanism of empire and the national state since their inception and remains widely practiced in "advanced" and "civilized" areas. Most genocides in this century have been perpetrated by nation-states upon ethnic minorities living within the state's own borders; most of the victims have been children. The people responsible for mass murder have by and large gotten away with what they have done. Most have succeeded in keeping wealth that they looted from their victims; most have never faced trial. Genocide is still difficult to eradicate because it is usually tolerated, at least by those who benefit from it.
The Splendid Blond Beast examines how the social mechanisms of genocide often encourage tacit international cooperation in the escape from justice of those who perpetrated the crime...
According to psychologist Ervin Staub, who has studied dozens of mass crimes, genocidal societies usually go through an evolution during which the different strata of society literally learn how to carry out group murder. In his book The Roots of Evil, Staub contends that genocidal atrocities most often take place in countries under great political, economic, and often military stress. They are usually led by authoritarian parties that wield great power yet are insecure in their rule, such as the Nazis in Germany or the Ittihad (Committee of Union and Progress) in Turkey. The ideologies of such parties can vary in important respects, but they are nonetheless often similar in that they create unity among "in-group" members through dehumanization of outsiders. Genocidal societies also show a marked tendency toward what psychologists call "justworld" thinking: Victims are believed to have brought their suffering upon themselves and, thus, to deserve what they get.
But the ideology of these authoritarian parties and even their seizure of state power are not necessarily enough to trigger a genocide. The leading perpetrators need mass mobilizations to actually implement their agenda. For example, the real spearheads of genocide in Germany-the Nazi party, SS, and similar groups- by themselves lacked the resources to disenfranchise and eventually murder millions of Jews. They succeeded in unleashing the Holocaust, however, by harnessing many of the otherwise ordinary elements of German life-of commerce, the courts, university scholarship, religious observance, routine government administration, and so on-to the specialized tasks necessary for mass murder. Not surprisingly, many of the leaders of these "ordinary" institutions were the existing notables in German society. The Nazi genocide probably would not have been possible without the active or tacit cooperation of many collaborators who did not consider themselves Nazis and, in some cases, even opposed aspects of Hitler's policies, yet nonetheless cooperated in mass murder. Put bluntly, the Nazis succeeded in genocide in part through offering bystanders money, property, status, and other rewards for their active or tacit complicity in the crime.
Continues...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Genocide/SplendidBlondeBeast.html
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Impeachment may not be the answer at this time due to Pence's pardon powers if he takes over the presidency, but at the very least, tRump needs to be CENSURED to force him to reality and humble his sorry ass.
The requirements to Censure:
"A majority is all that's needed to censure. While a majority of the House can impeach a president, it takes two-thirds of the Senate to convict and remove the chief executive from office. The Senate could pass a censure resolution by majority vote."
https://www.nj.com/.../08/whats_the_difference_between_censure_and_impeachme.html
This is do-able, Folks!
40RatRod
(532 posts)IMHO.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I kid you not. Fascism.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)To turn the Title of an old Sinclair Lewis novel to it can From it cant....though in that book Lewis spun a tale of it indeed happening here.
Approximately a third of this nation are 100% with this crude not so bright con man.
It is going to be quite hard to beat this move toward an Autocracy.
Scary times for sure.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)betting he's bigger and stronger than the USA.
He's wrong. Fuck that cowardly nazi.