01-06-2017, 08:03 PM
(01-06-2017, 07:42 PM)radind Wrote:(01-06-2017, 06:37 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I would not be surprised if Republicans tried to outlaw or 'merely' regulate the Democrats into irrelevance as Commies did in central Europe in the late 1940s. Such would indicate that they have no intention of losing any election.
I do not expect this to happen, but I do think that such action would be more likely from the Democrats than from the Republicans.
I hope that you are terribly surprised.
It would certainly be made to look as if it were done by Democrats or by people associated with a cause inimical to the Republican Party. It could of course be done by a rogue snookered into doing something egregious who then is betrayed by those who sponsor his deed, or some simple-minded extremist.
We do not need or want any Reichstag fire.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.