(06-02-2016, 07:38 AM)radind Wrote:(06-02-2016, 07:25 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: One of the greatest theoretical physicists, Stephen Hawking, has publicly stated that Donald Trump is a callous, dangerous demagogue.
Unfortunately the concerns that the greatest theoretical physicist of his time, Albert Einstein, went unheeded in Germany about 85 years ago.
Also ignored was the warning of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Quote:http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...effer.html
… "After years of political instability under the Weimar republic, most Christian institutions were relieved with the ascent of the nationalistic Nazi dictatorship. The German Evangelical Church, the foremost Protestant church in Germany, welcomed Hitler's government in 1933. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, however, although a member of the German Evangelical Church, was not complacent. In his April 1933 essay, The Church and the Jewish Question, he assailed Nazi state persecution.”…
Hitler promised bread and circuses. So did Nero, Caligula, and Commodus, arguably the three most entertaining, and three of the most memorable (for all the wrong reasons) of Roman emperors.
To anyone voting for Donald Trump because he will be more entertaining -- go to Wal*Mart and buy yourselves some entertainment. Wal*Mart has plenty of $5 racks of video and audio.
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.