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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Want To Turn America Into Russia Instead Of Nazi Germany
Put some oligarchs in charge with one strong man.
Have fake elections, where they do the counting.
Go after anyone that gets in their way.
I think their dream country is Russia (here).
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)I read this - this morning:
Anocracy - A regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features
https://www.systemicpeace.org/
roamer65
(36,745 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)Of Weimar Republic
roamer65
(36,745 posts)KS Toronado
(17,235 posts)But that could be changing the way tucker is praising Russia and complaining about Biden/Ukraine
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)Next they would want to fly the fucking russian flag here. To add here, I just cannot understand Americans anymore. Fucking give this great country away for what? All this bullshit from the religious right to stop abortions. They are fucking IDIOTS!!
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Russia is, by no means, the "Communists" of the Soviet Union. They are just another fascist regime, calling themselves something else.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)And the Nazis were very adept at blaming everything on the ''left" (including Communists in Germany) for the actual things THEY did during the Weimar Republic . . . this allowed them to rise.
sanatanadharma
(3,706 posts)CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)Not raging trumpers, but "moderates." Your vote is your voice, & they support a party that wants to make it harder for me to vote. They want to silence me because they disagree with me.
budkin
(6,703 posts)Just like Putin.
czarjak
(11,274 posts)KT2000
(20,577 posts)I do believe that is the plan. The billionaires believe themselves to be superior to all others and are supporting the party that will reward them for the superiority. TFG is just the fool they wanted to accomplish their goal which has been in the works for decades.
It was not too long ago that there were congressmen making Ayn Rand's books required reading for staff etc. and surely it has been on the reading list for most repubs. We have the acolyte Rand Paul as well.
An overlooked feature of the Rand philosophy is that there needs to be a class of elites to be in charge. It was not just free markets she was after but control of society by "superior" people. Republicans always deem themselves superior.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Hitler's Germany appeared pretty powerful in the 1930's but it was built on lies and the internals of the country were hollow. He had to conquer land for both ideological and financial purposes.
Russia is a neutered dog right now. Granted, they have nuclear weapons, but Putin knows that he would be wiped off the face of the Earth along with everyone else if he used them. Putin cannot even project power that much beyond his own borders. The United States can hit any place on the Earth with conventional military within hours.
Russia dreams of gaining influence beyond Russia, like what the Soviet Union had before Afghanistan and the inevitable end.
The dream for Conservatives is to have a hegemonic control of the entire world under a White Supremacist regime with all others in subservient roles.
That is Nazi Germany. Russia under Putin wants the same thing, but they cannot pull it off, which is why Putin wanted to manipulate Trump into doing it by proxy.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Won't work. The Nazi killed too many Russians, Jews and non-Jews. The Nazi destroyed Russian lands and infrastructure. The wingnuts here don't seem to know or care about history.
CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)They think just because they help put him in power they will forever be in his good graces. They are so wrong.
2naSalit
(86,610 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,501 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)an opportunity to be America's Putin. So he could feed his narcissism and milk our economy for billions.
That sick f88k is still trying too.