politics

I've been saying all year that I feel like I'm watching a crook break into a bunch of houses, steal everything, and burn the houses down while the police just stand there and say "that's illegal". Trump is on a very blatant crime spree and the people who are supposed to enforce the law are doing nothing except sometimes tell us that what he's doing is illegal

Taxing the non-rich to give tax breaks for the rich isn't even outrageous conservatism: it's par for the elitist course. Our own trump-loving cons still preach Pz Reagan's trickle-down theories, and want to secede because we insist they care a little about the plebes.

Paying back their rich friends for bankrolling the campaign is and has been a big part of their platform.

The benefits of having a massive cult that literally thinks you can do no wrong.

Still waiting for the American people to do something.

Me

Apathy fuels the machine

Monster doesn't seem like a harsh enough word for what he is.

Sometimes I wonder if Hitler was a similar person. It's hard to know because of how different we see leaders today. It's not just some news article you read or some speech every once in awhile. We get constant exposure and also constant exposure to so many different people talking about them in different ways.

Like, I don't think Trump is like Hitler. Not in the way we think of Hitler from the way he's taught in history. But, materially, he is creating extremely similar results. I don't see Trump as very passionate on his hatred or racism. Like, I think he's more concerned with what being racist and hateful gets him.

I don't know where I was going with this thought. But I guess my point is that it's weird to see a modern day leader implement almost verbatim the same policies and propaganda as the Nazis did. While, idk, being so incredibly, almost, apathetic about it? He seems to be so focused on only what benefits him and gets other rich people to like/respect him. Which is odd, at least in comparison to how we think of fascist leaders of the past. Most being portrayed as extremely passionate about their hatred. Maybe he's just old? His heart seems less in causing pain but more so, apathetic about it, as long as it benefits him in some way.

Edit: reread my comment later and it's obvious now that what I was trying to get to was that history is told outside of class conflict. The important part missing is that the idea of Hitler is this idea of "pure evil" in order to exclude his actions from being connected to the capitalist class and it's interests. It's to treat him as a "special case" and not understand what his material interests aligned with.

This isnt to say Hitler was less bad than portrayed. It is to point out that the great man theory of history is using him as a scapegoat for the interest of the capitalist class and it's concentration in favor of capitalism at that time. Which, well, we are seeing again today.

I think some replies here missed that. Talking about human aspects of Hitler's art or otherwise. Which could easily be said of Trump. I think what is missing is not a personal analysis. It's class analysis. Trump and Hitler's class position align.

If only.

Can I at least get a reach-around?

Maybe a protest in about 3 to 4 months will get him shaking in his boots?

You'd think