Lisnaholic |
11-06-2018 05:15 AM |
^ :clap: Times two. 245 children have been permanently traumatized by the ill-planned zero tolerence policy at the border and still the hate-filled rhetoric flows. Also, moving 15, 000 US troops because there are +/- 6,000 refugees, on foot, one thousand miles away is an abuse of Presidential power and a cynical exercise in scare-mongering.
Also well done for pointing out the parallels between Trump's position today and the early stages of the Nazi movement, and for finding that obscure quote from "The New Situation", (whatever that is). The quote shows another parallel with pre-war Germany: ordinary people, probably through lack of imagination, ignore the warning signs and tell themselves, "That extreme conduct could never happen here." We don't know yet if Trump=Hitler, but there are some alarming parallels already.
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Originally Posted by 66Sexy
(Post 2012541)
Let's say Trump puts that caravan of immigrants in a camp, keeps reporters out, and the next information we get about it is from escapees telling horror stories about a lack of clean water, sub-standard food with insects, people crammed in three to a bed in "housing", and large, suspicious mounds of earth that seem to grow as people are "released".
Is someone who found Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric distasteful but still voted for him because they don't like NAFTA ultimately responsible for a crime against humanity?
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^ The voters wouldn't be responsible for the crimes against humanity, imo, but they could be accused of having made a bad choice at the ballot box. As I mentioned a post or two back, a voter shouldn't be held responsible for everything his candidate does once in office. None the less, do you remember tore's sig, "In the age of information, ignorance is a choice"? Maybe your theoretical voter didn't do sufficient research into his candidate, or might've made a mistake about weighing up the NAFTA pros against the xenophobic cons. Also I would say, as per OH's article, the voter may be guilty of nothing more than just a failure to see the warning signs.
Voters don't get prosecuted for crimes against humanity, but they do get vilefied by subsequent generations, who openly wonder, "Why on earth didn't you stop that guy while you still could??"
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