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In reply to the discussion: Mitt Romney Reminds me of a Nazi [View all]Pbs1914
(147 posts)I am just calling a spade a spade from my own perspective. Yesterday's Jews would be today's Muslims. it could happen so easily and half the country in those red state areas could or would be willing enablers. "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran".. said one of the very few, if/only semi-rational member/ss of the Republican party in the last election, and BEFORE the tea party became a polarizing extreem right force/movement setting the republican agenda even further right.
To answer your question, it was in fact intended as an attempt (that I believe succedeed in reading the responses) for meaningful conversation. Because Romney can come off as a doofus, or gaffe prone etc. at times I think (well his poll numbers are at or above 45%, so he's got the backing of a great deal of the populace) he is able to present as less harmful and sadistic than he is. But the actual policies.. (including the project for a new american century)... are so vile that in a moment of candor, even newt ginggrich called it/them right wing social engineering. I simply see the parellel/s and did not feel the need to sugar coat it in this instance.
From the top of my head I can not recall the actual name ascribed to it, but a study was done looking at the role of authority and order in regards to a stranger initiating an electric shock to anther stranger and continually increasing the voltage. It found that most of the people in the study, after being coerced, did in fact continually increase the electric shocks to the suppossed subject (there was none) despite the cries and pleas they heard. I am pretty sure you are familiar with that study, and with its correlation to "The Anatomy of Human Destructivenes."