Post by midcan5 on Jan 24, 2024 8:02:23 GMT -5
"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil
Why is Trump so appealing to so many Americans who do not in any way share his behaviors or values? Is Trump evil or the harder question is his appeal a sign of evil. Consider January 6Th as example, it has to remind one of Hitler's rise to power and control of Germany. Hitler's hatred for for the Jewish people was motivated by his own shortcomings. A target, a foe, a group, is always required. Trump caged children but part of his appeal is the fact his judges overturned Roe. The unborn matter more than the born? Hatred is now directed at democrats, immigrants, gays, and trans, love for the unborn is an easy concern for it requires nothing unless control of others is your goal. Living breathing children at our border are not wanted and often hated and caged. Did the child lover complain then? No, for that is a reality - a moral dilemma - they place in another box and excuse. In a real sense immigrants have become the hated group in a land in which everyone is the child of immigrants, hate needs no reason.
Pastors embrace Trump's grievances in prayers at his rallies just as they did when Obama ran for office. But John McCain being a man of honor refused their support. Trump uses religion as Hitler and other so called religious do, as a stick without conscience. Is American democracy and it freedom in jeopardy should hate move enough Americans to forget their values and their morals? The answer is clear.
'500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention'
www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/30/500-000-kids-30-million-hours-trump-s-vast-expansion-of-child-detention
'The German churches and the nazi state'
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state
Evil takes many forms, it allows the evil doer freedom and justification but it is not called evil for to do so would raise hard questions - moral dilemma. Caged children at our border did the religious who cared for the life of the unborn care for the lives of the born. Hate blinds the follower.
Links below for the interested reader who think for themselves and do not follow.
''Crybaby conqueror': Columnist nails Trump's appeal to MAGA fanatics'
www.rawstory.com/trump-fascist-2666830902/
'"The most evil person I've ever met" – Trump's former staffer shares disturbing observation'
buzzloving.com/the-most-evil-person-ive-ever-met-trumps-former-staffer-shares-disturbing-observation/
'Trump supporters are nothing but fundamentalists' 'The congenital braggart who embodies what Christianity has traditionally called the seven deadly sins has come to seem the totem of faith for millions of Republican evangelicals.'
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/12/29/24017885/donald-trump-fundamentalism-fascism-maga-supporters-adolf-hitler-george-orwell-gene-lyons
'Trump Team Responds to Hitler Accusations by Proving Accusers Right'
newrepublic.com/post/176892/trump-team-responds-hitler-vermin-accusations-proving-accusers-right
For the readers, the thinkers, those who steer their boat and don't look to false gods for leadership.
'Trump's latest hate rally: A master class in cult mind control'
www.salon.com/2022/04/28/latest-hate-rally-a-master-class-in-mind-control/
"Polarisation is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."
p56 'Twilight Of Democracy' The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism' Anne Applebaum
www.anneapplebaum.com/book/twilight-of-democracy/
'Are Trump Republicans Fascists? No, says BU historian Jonathan Zatlin, but they can still be dangerous'
www.bu.edu/articles/2022/are-trump-republicans-fascists/
'Donald Trump and the banality of evil'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/donald-trump-and-banality-evil/
'The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control' Steven Hassan
www.goodreads.com/book/show/43261495-the-cult-of-trump
'Evil: The Crime against Humanity'
www.loc.gov/collections/hannah-arendt-papers/articles-and-essays/evil-the-crime-against-humanity/
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov
Why is Trump so appealing to so many Americans who do not in any way share his behaviors or values? Is Trump evil or the harder question is his appeal a sign of evil. Consider January 6Th as example, it has to remind one of Hitler's rise to power and control of Germany. Hitler's hatred for for the Jewish people was motivated by his own shortcomings. A target, a foe, a group, is always required. Trump caged children but part of his appeal is the fact his judges overturned Roe. The unborn matter more than the born? Hatred is now directed at democrats, immigrants, gays, and trans, love for the unborn is an easy concern for it requires nothing unless control of others is your goal. Living breathing children at our border are not wanted and often hated and caged. Did the child lover complain then? No, for that is a reality - a moral dilemma - they place in another box and excuse. In a real sense immigrants have become the hated group in a land in which everyone is the child of immigrants, hate needs no reason.
Pastors embrace Trump's grievances in prayers at his rallies just as they did when Obama ran for office. But John McCain being a man of honor refused their support. Trump uses religion as Hitler and other so called religious do, as a stick without conscience. Is American democracy and it freedom in jeopardy should hate move enough Americans to forget their values and their morals? The answer is clear.
'500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention'
www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/30/500-000-kids-30-million-hours-trump-s-vast-expansion-of-child-detention
'The German churches and the nazi state'
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state
Evil takes many forms, it allows the evil doer freedom and justification but it is not called evil for to do so would raise hard questions - moral dilemma. Caged children at our border did the religious who cared for the life of the unborn care for the lives of the born. Hate blinds the follower.
Links below for the interested reader who think for themselves and do not follow.
''Crybaby conqueror': Columnist nails Trump's appeal to MAGA fanatics'
www.rawstory.com/trump-fascist-2666830902/
'"The most evil person I've ever met" – Trump's former staffer shares disturbing observation'
buzzloving.com/the-most-evil-person-ive-ever-met-trumps-former-staffer-shares-disturbing-observation/
'Trump supporters are nothing but fundamentalists' 'The congenital braggart who embodies what Christianity has traditionally called the seven deadly sins has come to seem the totem of faith for millions of Republican evangelicals.'
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/12/29/24017885/donald-trump-fundamentalism-fascism-maga-supporters-adolf-hitler-george-orwell-gene-lyons
'Trump Team Responds to Hitler Accusations by Proving Accusers Right'
newrepublic.com/post/176892/trump-team-responds-hitler-vermin-accusations-proving-accusers-right
For the readers, the thinkers, those who steer their boat and don't look to false gods for leadership.
'Trump's latest hate rally: A master class in cult mind control'
www.salon.com/2022/04/28/latest-hate-rally-a-master-class-in-mind-control/
"Polarisation is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."
p56 'Twilight Of Democracy' The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism' Anne Applebaum
www.anneapplebaum.com/book/twilight-of-democracy/
'Are Trump Republicans Fascists? No, says BU historian Jonathan Zatlin, but they can still be dangerous'
www.bu.edu/articles/2022/are-trump-republicans-fascists/
'Donald Trump and the banality of evil'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/donald-trump-and-banality-evil/
'The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control' Steven Hassan
www.goodreads.com/book/show/43261495-the-cult-of-trump
'Evil: The Crime against Humanity'
www.loc.gov/collections/hannah-arendt-papers/articles-and-essays/evil-the-crime-against-humanity/
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov