08-16-2017, 01:42 PM
(08-16-2017, 09:14 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: On the old forum I had posed the question of what event might be a trigger for this 4T as Harper's Ferry was to the Civil War 4T. Could the events in Charlottesville this past weekend be the one? After all, they both occurred within the same state.
Virginia in 2017 is not Virginia in 1859. John Brown, mixed up as he was, had sentiments with support in large parts of America. Fascist pigs such as the KKK and neo-Nazis have no mass support in any part of America. The killer is about as morally attractive as the late John Allen Mohammed (remember him? He was the serial killer who shot people from inside the trunk of his car. He was executed in Virginia for murders in Virginia).
We generally recognize the Klan and neo-Nazis believing things completely out of touch with any but a minuscule part of America and no part of the commercial, culture, religious, or political elites in America.
What is exposed is the moral depravity and the incompetence of the President. We all associate Nazis with mass murder on the greatest scale in the shortest time. We associate Klan groups with support of hatred that began as nostalgia for the old slave system but that has morphed into a call for genocide once Klansmen started adopting Nazi symbols and ideology. Such is nothing new. What is new is that we have a fresh victim -- a pretty white girl with no objectionable characteristics. This is more effective for consolidating sympathy for her than does some black kid who made a fatal mistake when the cops made a fatal mistake in a lethal encounter.
Americans have never been less tolerant of ethnic, racial, sexual, and religious bigotry. Elected Republicans are scared of the crass, mealy-mouthed statements of this President. In a parliamentary system there would have been a vote of no confidence for a Prime Minister who has shown such crass indifference to the sensitivities of well over 99% of the People. We have a President who acts as if he has no responsibility except to those personally connected or sharing his ideology.
It is time for President Trump to resign for the good of America and even for the good of the Republican Party. Sure, I am a Democrat, and I recognize that it might be advantageous for my Party that a crippled President be in office so that my Party can make political gains that it cannot with someone like Mike Pence (more extreme in his economic and social agenda, but more competent).
There are just too many clear and present dangers, most obviously an insane leader in North Korea who could initiate a Korean civil war with the potential for mass death on the scale of the Rwandan genocide and the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. .
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.