02-01-2021, 11:41 PM
(02-01-2021, 11:03 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-01-2021, 08:54 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-01-2021, 08:01 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Nothing matters but the leader, his image, and his agenda? That is a personality cult. The more extreme that such is, the more dangerous is the personality cult.
People have done horrible things in the name of Donald Trump. I hope that we have learned our lesson.
I think it is more racism than a personality cult. Black Lives Matter was on the cusp of winning another round of legislation, which the radical racists could not tolerate. Trump is one of them, and the only way to keep the status quo going was to be keeping Trump in power. All for an insurrection that would only buy them a few hours? As it turned out, they lost planned protests of several more states so the delay was about a wash?
At least it makes the issue clearer.
Racism is certainly an important aspect of the reactionary cult in America. Or in a more general sense, xenophobia-- make America white and Christian again.
Much so. These folks would have never made Barack Obama an object of a personality cult. He was instead a bogeyman. Never mind that Obama ran a squeaky-clean administration, adhered closely to precedent and protocol, and had a conservative lifestyle.
Still, a black man who grabbed white women by their 'kitty-cats' without giving consent, consorted with a white porn star, had multiple wives, had a shady record with business dealings, and exhibited free-floating anger ... well, that would simply be a criminal, would it not?
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.
