Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

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(07-04-2016, 07:23 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: "Authoritarians are thought to express much deeper fears than the rest of the electorate, to seek the imposition of order where they perceive dangerous change, and to desire a strong leader who will defeat those fears with force. They would thus seek a candidate who promised these things. And the extreme nature of authoritarians' fears, and of their desire to challenge threats with force, would lead them toward a candidate whose temperament was totally unlike anything we usually see in American politics — and whose policies went far beyond the acceptable norms.

A candidate like Donald Trump."
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/tru...itarianism

Fear brings out the worst in people. Just think of how Hitler manipulated the German people -- fear of Britain, fear of America, fear of Bolshevism -- and above all else, fear of the Jews, the unifying factor behind all menace. Capitalist plutocracy in Britain and America and Soviet Bolshevism had the same source:



Literally, "Behind the Enemy Powers : the Jew"

The monster bears an amazing resemblance to the great Hollywood actor Edward G. Robinson, practically typecast as a villain. But by all accounts, Edward G. Robinson (who was Jewish) was a wonderful person.

Stalin's Hell-frozen-over Soviet Union was not the place for someone with a vulnerable ego. Stalin used fear against short-lived (a real enemy of Stalin would of course be killed quickly), imaginary, and even vanished enemies to unify the masses.

Contrast FDR, who told us in his inaugural address:

...This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.

Yes, there will be genuine dangers to meet in any difficult time. We need not create new dangers in the misguided belief that fear brings heroism. Fear brings vindictiveness toward people who might as well be collaborators. It causes people to take revenge upon people who have done nothing wrong and have shown no desire to do wrong.

So how does a nation of moral courage handle danger? Hardly a nation so stared defeat in the eye and fended it off as did the British in World War II. Almost all objective observers expected the British to buckle under the inevitable power of Nazi Germany. The British put up with economic regimentation far more severe than even Nazi Germany to the extent that the British economy was almost as totalitarian as the Soviet economy at the time. But consider also that Churchill wasn't pitting one British group against another. Foreign nationals associated with Axis powers were interned, in part so that the Axis powers would not get a chance to insinuate themselves among refugees. But the internees were treated kindly.

Donald Trump offers us no confidence in ourselves; he sows pointless discord that can only hurt us.