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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA recent Amazon Prime TV series offers insight into today's Republican Party
If you viewed the sci-fi alternate history Amazon Prime series "The Man In The High Castle", adapted from the Philip K Dick Novel, the American Nationalist leaders who head the American Reich (subservient to the Fuhrer) after the American surrender to Germany, pretty much encapsulate the mind set of the Republican Party today. Many are not true Nazi believers, but it doesn't matter. They lean authoritarian, and that is close enough for them to fall in line with whoever is calling the shots, no matter how crazy he might be. They are the technicians who implement Nazi blueprints in return for a small dose of power. That is our modern Republican Party.
Goodheart
(5,318 posts)Grifters sucking in a bunch of fools.
JenniferJuniper
(4,510 posts)compared to what I know about them. I know two women whose lives were nearly destroyed as direct result of their involvement with that pyramid scheme.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)Grifters are as old as humanity, but watching techniques evolve is always fascinating. What is so chilling about the American Right in "The Man in The High Castle" is the banality of total evil presented. Apple Pie co-existing with an ongoing Holocaust which few seem to fervently believe in but which must be subscribed to as a political necessity.
Johnny2X2X
(19,001 posts)The Handmaid Tale's Gillead rulers are a mix of true believers/fanatics and power hungry cynics just along for the ride. So reminiscent of today's GOP which is a mix of True maniacal Trumpsters and cynics who are just scooping up the power the Trump party throws to them.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)...the Mike Lindells and Christo- fascists. In many ways I find the former more terrifying than the latter.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)was constantly drawing parallels to McConnell, et al, and even shuddered at some of the exactness.
JustAnotherGen
(31,798 posts)I read the book when I was in high school, and it remains a dog eared copy that I read over and over. The best thing about the book?
It leaves the ending open to the reader.
We can write whatever ending we want in America - if we have the will to bring to heel these dark unAmerican people.
ananda
(28,854 posts)It's very interesting, to say the least.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)on the Eastern and Central U.S. under the control of the Greater Reich, while the book is more centered on Western Coastal U.S. under Japanese occupation. In the Western Region the Japanese cultural influence is overlaid onto American society, but in the East homegrown authoritarian influences morph much more seamlessly into a new Nazi regime. Was anyone surprised that J.Edgar Hoover continues his career uninterrupted in the new American Reich?
ananda
(28,854 posts)he hit the nail on a lot of interesting problems and ideas..
and this was one of them.
These days, I feel as though we live in a two-zone reality,
red states and blue states.
One Nazi-like, vile but very ignorant; and the other
liberal and intelligent.
With big huge money behind the vile and ignorant, we
good liberals are really struggling to get the upper hand.
If we don't, well... it doesn't bear thinking about.