Still one of the absolutely best things I've ever read; always reread in full.
"I'm not a member of any organized political party; I'm a Democrat."
I mean, how is that any qualitatively different than people enforcing stove regulations themselves? They could do it themselves, with enough motivation.
¿Por qué no los tres?
Yeah; this is exactly what I was trying to get at.
Ah! Right you are; I misread.
Agreed; but, to be fair, "leave their post" was one of the things the person homesweethomeMrL was responding to said absolutely no one was apparently doing.
which includes the Nazi strategy of Blitzkrieg
I mean, that was a Nazi war strategy, not how they consolidated power.
The difference is that Nazis didn’t care that the citizens might oppose them, because they were fully prepared from the beginning to ruthlessly eliminate all opposition by any means necessary.
Sure but they absolutely understood that necessitated plausible deniability; every further reach of power had a cover. There's a reason the suspending of civil liberties only jumped to effect under the cover of the Reichstag fire (and Hitler finally moving to remove Röhm was to appease army and business leaders, because he needed their support) or that Hitler waited until Hindenburg passed before finally assuming complete power.
I'm not too familiar with his record before running for the Senate, I'm afraid, but, presuming it was sufficiently different that people had wanted to vote for him and no one had been sounding the alarm, part of me wonders if something had happenned when he had his stroke.
It's, obviously, not a given but brain damage can cause personality changes. I have very little evidence beyond speculation but I do wonder, from time to time.
I've been telling my husband, since he won, that he's been given a near perfect opportunity for a fascist takeover (his horrendous first term whitewashed, more popularity than ever, more or less unchecked power in the current system) and he's basically been pissing it away (though I don't want to underpresume his capability at failing upward…).
A smart autocrat would have slowly broken norms while justifying himself by bending current rules; he's gone straight to crashing the economy and smashing expectations people relied on faster than than anyone can keep track. Those who are in favor are denied plausible deniability that nothing has changed and those who're hurting so bad they may not've cared can't take hope that he's making their lives better.
It's incredible.
This always surprises me as I'm younger millennial and my Gen X dad always feels more technologically behind than me.
But it's funny because I'm only so into computers because of him as he had things like Windows 3.1 and 95 and 98 in our home from a young age and he even went to school for C++ but he doesn't really remember it (it got him an accounting gig) and his pursual of technology these days is pretty limited to pre-built stuff from Samsung and Sony than any real grasp of how it works. I struggle to get him to show even passing interest in something like Linux (like, I get liking Windows; you grew up with it: you're more comfortable with it. But not even curiosity, even if you'll never use it?).
Expert on Excel and OneNote (because it's his daily bread-and-butter) but probably would ask for my help on rotating a PDF.
What OP describes sounds much more aligned to my millennial peers than the bulk of Gen. X I know.