Democrats organize to fight back

[Kinser79]

(03-12-2017, 01:56 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The anti-Trump resistance must be bigger than the Tea Party, and for good reasons.

Do you have any numbers for this? From what I've seen its mostly wing nuts screeching in the streets. I've been to Tea Party events and Occupy events. I'm not seeing anything similar to Trump. Or is this just wishful thinking?

Quote: First, Donald Trump has the majority of an authoritarian Establishment on its side

And yet it is the Democrats and their darlings in Tech who want to censor the internet, even censor the President himself. Are you sure it is the GOP that has an Authoritarian Establishment? I mean there are authoritarians in the GOP but they are in the DEMs too. But whose calling for censorship and who isn't?

That's a rhetorical question.

Quote:-- people who hold that people whose beliefs are contrary to theirs deserves to be rendered permanently irrelevant.

Strange, I don't recall any Tea Partiers or hell even all 5 of the Klansmen in the country calling for punching communists, yet "it's no crime to punch a nazi" (never mind that while there are nazis around they clearly are not the likes of Milo Yiannopolos a gay jew who won't shut up about black cock).

Quote: Second, Donald Trump is a dictator, and he has the legislative branch under control. The only questions about the Trump dictatorship are of its competence and ruthlessness. Third, an American dictatorship would be difficult to escape and could get away from much.

Obama had the legislative branch under his control from 09-11. I notice you didn't call him a dictator then. Sure the GOP hacks on the board certainly did, but you didn't.

So then if Obama can have Congress in the control of his party, and be president and not be a dictator then how come Trump is a dictator under the same conditions? Because he's not on your particular team?

Partisan hack detected. Don't feel bad--it isn't news to anyone.

Quote:So we have no heritage of executive despotism? Neither did the Germans going into 1933.

Are you sure about that? Kaiser Willhelm II ran a pretty tight ship, as did Bismark before him. Or is that Fake History?

Quote:Except for those Americans who have first-hand experience under a dictatorial regime we don't fully understand what we are dealing with. (OK, blacks of a certain age in the Jim Crow South... but that would now be people over age 60 who might know the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission as a KGB-like organization in the service of segregation).

I know lots of people who have first hand experience with dictatorships--primarily Latin Americans but my Neighbor Lady survived the Holocaust (yeah she's pretty old but we check up on her...nice lady). Both types of such persons have detected no dictatorships.

I'm sorry PBR but to put it quite simply mature democracies have no history of reverting to autocracies. No matter how much anyone may wish for that to happen.