10-05-2016, 08:11 PM
(10-05-2016, 04:10 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Let's laugh at Trump while we can, I wrote. Because if he's elected:
1. We won't be laughing, we'll be crying.
2. We won't be allowed to laugh at him.
and/or
3. We'll just be tired of his sick sarcastic humor and stunts by then.
or even:
4. We'll all be dead and/or fleeing the country.
You forgot:
5. We will be in prison or hiding.
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.