11-18-2016, 07:34 AM
(11-18-2016, 05:34 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(11-17-2016, 05:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: There is a terrible orange menace coming over the horizon, a threat to all our livelihoods and fortunes. A threat to our health, well-being and sanity. Trumpzilla is his name. Trumpzilla is coming; prepare and fight!
Obama Wrote:In an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems," he said. "If people, whether they're conservative, liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process and are taking absolutist views and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down.
I wonder if this is what Obama meant by 'demonizing'?
![[Image: trump-zilla.jpg]](http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Campaign-2016/trump-zilla.jpg)
Welcome to the Weimar Republic circa 1930, where political life was rapidly polarizing between nationalists and socialists.
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.