Politics and Religion

[hollodero]

(03-03-2021, 12:44 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Indeed.  I find it interesting that people on this board who claim to be "tolerant" will so blithely toss around comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis.

A populist with disdain for the flaws of the democratic process who is backed by a large scale media outlet.  Yes, that seems a more apt comparison.  I wonder why it is not used as much?

You don't wonder that. You're lying :)

And I'm pretty much with you when it comes to Trump-Hitler comparisons. Trump is deeply flawed, but he shows no tendency to advocate any kind of mass murder, and that would be a very elementary trait for that comparison.
That being said. At times I get the similarites some people mention. There are elements in his rhetoric that make me shiver as well and that imho have a certain Naziesque flavor to them. Calling the media enemy of the people comes to mind, or creating external threats like caravans full of murderous refugees, advocating the imprisonment of perceived enemies or calling them traitors, musing about holding absolute power and how the country can't do without that, the more or less open admiration for authoritarian leaders and how great they are in keeping their people in check. These can, imho, be reasonably seen as fascism-affine words.
There are no deeds to match these words, of course, and that alone makes the comparison to fascist leaders dismissable for sure. That's why I would not make these comparisons in the first place. But they, imho, are not completely absurd on every level.

(03-03-2021, 12:44 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Sincerely, don't blame yourself.  The resident far left posters consider a day wasted if they don't compare the right to the Nazis or Trump to Hitler.  Hell, even our resident faux intellectual professed his approval for such comparisons, because he feels they are apt.  And I wonder why we have not one conservative leaning person who posts in this subforum with any degree of regularity?

Yeah, I don't think they got pitchforked out of here. If they were, that's on them for being plaintive. As I said, I was called many unpleasant things as well, and in my perspective the right-leaning folk are in no way more moderate in that regard than the left-leaning ones. I get that this is probably a point of disagreement.
Eg. when Sanders is called a commie or gets compared to Hugo Chavez, I don't think this holds any more water than any comparison of Trump to Mussolini.

Also, we got you :) but there are some others still, that match the description of right leaning more accurately. Fritz and Mickey and Sunset and then some.