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The cancer infecting the political Left
(12-09-2020, 06:58 AM)Einzige Wrote: All bourgeois politicians have cults of personality behind them.

More likely it is dictatorial leaders and puppets. I've named names. I could have as easily mentioned Quisling as Petain. 

It is best that we not have a cult of personality as a cover for serious inadequacies in a leader or as a pretext for the worst misconduct possible. Donald Trump has the most blatant cult of personality of a President in office in American history. Heck, FDR chose to ensure that if Americans saw anyone as a near-deity in the American political heritage it would be Washington or Lincoln.
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.


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RE: The cancer infecting the political Left - by pbrower2a - 12-09-2020, 12:26 PM

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