01-09-2021, 12:15 PM
(01-09-2021, 10:32 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-09-2021, 03:42 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The assault on the Capitol, to make a long story short, looks more like the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 than any semblance of anything in American history, with Trump taking a role more like that of Vladimir Lenin than like any statesman in American history. Note well: Vladimir Lenin became a dictator by nullifying an election that did not serve his purposes.
Even then, the Bolshevik Revolution was no action against a democratic major power with as long a tradition as the United States. It is really hard to come up with anything really compatible.
True. The Bolsheviks aborted a democracy in infancy. There was more to the situation than we have in America... a war going badly for Russia, the impossibility of major reforms of a social order during a war, and of course the novelty of institutions that had yet to establish themselves. Lenin could control the soviets, but never a democratic process.
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.
