Mitt Romney Reminds me of a Nazi

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46. The only reason Romney hasn't ordered the murder of millions is he hasn't had the opportunity, yet..

I think the psychology is virtually identical between Mitt Romney and characters like Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.

When I look at Mitt Romney, I see in him authoritarianism, narcissism, lack of conscience or empathy, an insatiable craving for power, and intolerance of challenges to his authority. And he's the leader of a political party marked by authoritarianism, fanaticism, bigotry and barely-restrained violence. This is a dangerous combination.

Mitt Romney is very dangerous, and declaring that the Nazi comparison is off the table is, in my view, even more insulting to the memory of those killed in the Holocaust, than making the comparison frivolously. With the social norm against making the comparison or "going Godwin" is the implicit assumption that "It can't happen here."

I've got news for you. It can. America is not special, and we're just as vulnerable to falling to tyranny and being sucked into cruelty as any other nation in the world. Hitler wasn't a legendary demon of myth. He was a member of homo sapiens, expressing personality traits that are not only not unique, but not particularly rare.

Give Romney power, and people will experience injustice and violence, and very likely some will suffer and die. Will the number of people killed be 12 million like Hitler's death toll in his concentration camps? Maybe not, but at this point, we're only talking about degrees. Maybe only a few thousand will die, or go to prison unjustly, or get hurt. But I am certain that number is not going to be zero. That is Romney's personality. Give him power, and he WILL use it to hurt people.

It DID happen with Bush and Cheney. How many died in Iraq? How many people suffered at Gitmo and Bagram? How much of our morals did we flush down the toilet when our country started waterboarding? How safe do you think you are against indefinite detention, or police abuse?