It's become a surreal world
I was feeling discouraged. This morning I woke up and my first thought was "I live in a time when NASA has gone rogue. There is something totally badass about that."
It was heady having such hope again, but as the day went on and I talked to friends I realized something.
I am living in a country where civil servants have been forced to go rogue ( Read more... )
It was heady having such hope again, but as the day went on and I talked to friends I realized something.
I am living in a country where civil servants have been forced to go rogue ( Read more... )
These are facts, look at the parallels between Hitler and Trump happening right now:
Step 1: Hitler discredited the media (that didn't agree with him).
Step 2: He silenced the scientists and government employees.
Step 3: Hate crimes against minorities grew to the highest in the country's history. Clashes between parties became so extensive that Hitler ended civil liberties giving "law and order" as the cause. Those that opposed him were ridiculed and threatened.
Step 4: wealthy supporters purchased media outlets, employing only those faithful to the ruling party (Fox News was the start).
In the final step, Hitler declared that the only way the country could be unified was to restore traditional values. Minorities including gays, the disabled, non-Christians and people of colour were considered "inferior". And you know what happened next. (or are you a Holocaust denier as well?)
So far, Trump, on film and in print) has mocked and/or insulted: the disabled, war heroes, women and people of colour (like John Lewis). His backers are now using Orwellian newsspeak or, as they call it, "altfacts" to try to make his words and actions seem normal. Some of his cabinet and staff have ties to the American Nazi party and the KKK.
Clinton didn't lose the popular vote. She won by over a million more votes.
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2) Bull. The scientists and government employees were behind him as well. Fascism was the new "scientific" way for technocrats to run a country, and they were happy to have an "enlightened" leader like Hitler.
3) True. The communists and national socialists were at each other's throats. Once again, it was left wing rioting -- just against each other, that time.
4) Hitler's wealthy supporters already owned the media outlets (see #1.)
I would like to argue this with you, but you are so historically illiterate it would be like trying to argue the merits of different aircraft with someone who insists that flying is witchcraft.
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