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byronius

(7,545 posts)
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 03:49 PM Apr 2017

Everytime I watch 'Schindler's List' I think about today's Republican Party.

Godwin's law is dead. The insect logic used by the current GOP and libertarians of all stripes is the same as the insect logic used by the Nazi Party and the SS.

Psychopaths all. The only difference is that American soil is generally not fertile enough for such ideas to grow.

They need a few good economic shocks and perhaps an Event or two, nuclear or viral. That's all they need to bring out the Beast even here.

It's what's buried beneath all the other 'pro-American' ideas they love to display. It's where Republican logic is rooted, hatred and fear of the other, the love of cruelty, the enjoyment of misery.

Parsing terms and seeking compromise builds their road to Hell, the road their subconscious longs to walk.

Like I said, Godwin's law is dead. I see Amon Leopold Göth in Paul Ryan's eyes.

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Everytime I watch 'Schindler's List' I think about today's Republican Party. (Original Post) byronius Apr 2017 OP
Mississippi Burning zipplewrath Apr 2017 #1
Watch "Memory of the Camps". Behind the Aegis Apr 2017 #2

zipplewrath

(16,671 posts)
1. Mississippi Burning
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 03:58 PM
Apr 2017

I saw that movie last weekend. They have "interviews" with the locals. I was thinking at the time; "These same folks would be Trump voters today".

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