11-17-2019, 03:15 AM
(11-16-2019, 06:44 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: PBR are you naturally clueless or do you have to work at it? Impeachment, if it fails, and it will fail, disgraces the Democrats not the President. Or did you learn nothing from the Clintons at all? If anything as the Impeachment drags out and more and more of it is feels and hearsay the more and more it looks like the President will win by a landslide this time round.
But feel free to continue with your delusions.
Clueless? I have never attached myself to any totalitarian cause or personality.
Eric Hoffer, in his The True Believer, explained that some people are in need of an ideology that answers all questions, and then some. The answer is to lie, cheat, steal, torture, and even murder in the name of that ideology or cause. When that cause fails, the victor wins over the True Believer easily.
As he put it, "The opposite of a raging fascist is not a raging communist. The opposite of a raging fascist is a sober liberal".
It is hard to see what ISIS has to offer a racist neo-Nazi, but neo-Nazis have gone to ISIS. Maybe it is the excitement of lying, cheating, stealing, torturing, raping, and murdering. Many defeated members of Saddam Hussein's secular Baath-fascist cult found a gaping hole in their lives when Saddam Hussein was defeated. They went to the perverse form of Islamic fascism in the form of ISIS.
It was highly advantageous to the Soviet Union that the True Believers in fascistic causes such as the Romanian Iron Guard, the Hungarian Arrow Cross, the Slovak Hlinka Guard, and the Nazified Wehrmacht, left with no meaning once their idols were defeated, could easily attach to Communism to be brutal enforcers of Soviet overlords. They could accept the catechism easily because they believed in little -- certainly not in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for the whole of Humanity, not in the responsibility of one person to another, and probably not in love or culture. But before that the Nazis and fascists attracted renegade socialists who were too fanatical for the mainstream, and even Communists.
I know what you used to be, and it was ugly. You are as nasty toward me in defending Donald Quisling Trump as you were in defending someone far worse. A hint: his original surname was "Dzhugashvili".
As an adult I have gone between center-left and center-right. I have consistently shown contempt for extremism of any kind.
Fanaticism shows the absence of principle.
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.