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Thread #161422   Message #3835948
Posted By: Jim Carroll
31-Jan-17 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Petition to not allow trump into the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Petition to not allow trump into the UK
"Every time you invoke Hitler another white nationalist gets his wings."
The only argument these people are prepared to offer for Trump is that he is the people's choice - none of them with either tackle the facts of his behaviour or its implications - I make the Hitler analogy as an example of the people having made the choice they did, then and now.
As things stand at present I don't believe there to be a cat's chance in hell of Trump pulling of a fascist coup - he is happily in the process of alienating all those elements necessary for one to take place.
The judiciary are opposing his unconstitutional behaviour, the mass media has been dismissed crudely as "liars", the security services were the first to be put in the cross-hairs because of their reporting on Russian involvement..... all necessary coup-fodder.
German Fascism was a product of the times - a failed revolution leading to mass disillusionment, mass poverty due to an international depression and stringent reparation demands and a historical scapegoat - the Jews.
I don't think any of this exists internally so far in the U.S. (can't even blame the Native Americans!!), but I'm not so sure of beyond your borders      
There is little doubt that Trump will continue to use the Muslims as scapegoats, but the implications of a holy war against Islam is beyond both reach and reason for him at present.
In the meantime, the Islamophobic shit he is kicking up in Europe is, I believe the immediate problem - six European elections in the offing, all with Ultra-Right candidates waiting in the wings and cheering your man on.
Add a sprinkle of defeated religious fanatics, light the touch-paper and hastily retire...!
My comments on Hitler are aimed at our home grown bunch of Mudcat sickos who have been whittling away since I was a member.
Jim Carroll