11-10-2016, 02:51 PM
(11-10-2016, 02:30 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(11-10-2016, 02:11 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: There is another test. I'm not sure what the test is for, exactly. One states a political opinion. If the individual hearing the opinion launches insults and other social attacks, there is something wrong with the individual launching the personal attack. I'm not sure I can properly describe what the test tests without failing the test.
I don't know. Perhaps we should get Playdude to actually express a political opinion of his own creation. Assuming he could do so without referencing DNC propaganda. I don't have high hopes of ever conducting such a test.
There are fighting words. Praise Hitler in the presence of a Jew and you can expect extreme hostility. In fact, praise Hitler in front of any decent person and you can expect extreme hostility.
It is more ambiguous with someone well known but controversial, like Jimmy Carter or Margaret Thatcher. Good people might disagree on both of them.
The DNC? It's now in hibernation, and it is clueless of what may be the beginning of the end of itself and the Party itself. I have a fear that the Republican Party will morph into an authoritarian, monopoly party like the old Spanish Phalanx of Francisco Franco and shut out or control any opposition indefinitely. We shall see soon enough.
Falangismo? That might be the course of the Republican Party.
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.