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cilla4progress

(24,723 posts) Wed Apr 10, 2019, 12:27 PM Apr 2019

In crisis times people tend to go for strongmen

This is how Hitler took power.

trump, Netanyahu...clearly this is where we are in history right now.

Climate change is the primary driver, which forces migration. Also income inequality, nationalism, racism. Gun violence in US.

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In crisis times people tend to go for strongmen (Original Post) cilla4progress Apr 2019 OP

Fear. They create the crisis, then portray themselves as the only ones who can fix it. deminks Apr 2019 #1

Right. Who doesn't remember trump's dark inauguration speech: cilla4progress Apr 2019 #2

L'etat, c'est moi. An old concept, really. Absolute monarchy. deminks Apr 2019 #3

Was just thinking of this quote cilla4progress Apr 2019 #5

So why they're going for Trump is anyone's guess. Aristus Apr 2019 #4

deminks

(11,014 posts)

1. Fear. They create the crisis, then portray themselves as the only ones who can fix it.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2019, 12:49 PM

Apr 2019

But they never do.

cilla4progress

(24,723 posts)

2. Right. Who doesn't remember trump's dark inauguration speech:

Reply to deminks (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 10, 2019, 12:54 PM

Apr 2019

"I alone can fix it."?

Not to mention, "I can shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it."

All the signs have been there all along.

deminks

(11,014 posts)

3. L'etat, c'est moi. An old concept, really. Absolute monarchy.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 10, 2019, 01:04 PM

Apr 2019

cilla4progress

(24,723 posts)

5. Was just thinking of this quote

Reply to deminks (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 10, 2019, 01:20 PM

Apr 2019

yesterday!

Aristus

(66,307 posts)

4. So why they're going for Trump is anyone's guess.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2019, 01:09 PM

Apr 2019

I've never know anyone who talked so tough while looking so ridiculous, soft, weak, and clownish.

Shit, even Hitler and Mussolini had records of military service.

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