Has democracy ended in the U.S.?

[Belsnickel]

(07-02-2018, 12:48 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: And that is also what I was saying in my earlier post. Because a person uses a similar tactic or approach that Nazis once used, that doesn't make them a Nazi. There is not enough correlating evidence to support the sweepingly general statement. However, it is accurate to say they used the same tactic or approach as the Nazis. That is not saying that they ARE Nazis, only that they used a similar tactic or approach.

If someone tells me they are a vegetarian and I reply that Hitler used to be a vegetarian, I didn't just call them like Hitler. And no sane person would take it that way in common conversation. Similarly, if I say we now have one-party rule similar to the way the Soviets used to have one-party rule, that is just stating a correlation.

Agreed. I can say that the patterns we see happening in the US are similar to what we have seen in South America, but I'm not going to say Trump is like Chavez or Fujimori.