tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post6636887605086955643..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: What Republicans Stand ForJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-55943927762549407382016-03-04T18:49:49.484-05:002016-03-04T18:49:49.484-05:00For what it's worth, this has been posted a lo...For what it's worth, this has been posted a lot in my FB feed. Lakoff reduces it to a "strong daddy" impulse of Republicans.<br /><br />http://georgelakoff.com/2016/03/02/why-trump/Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09051024382193588456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-67043606095608581412016-03-04T16:04:13.277-05:002016-03-04T16:04:13.277-05:00Again with the similarities to Fascism. "Poli...Again with the similarities to Fascism. <i>"Policy? Who cares about policy? We've got angry, confident rhetoric that appeals to the basest of emotions! Put us in power and we'll make everything better! Don't ask us how, we'll worry about all that for you!"</i><br /><br />Avoiding the issue of policy is what allowed the Fascists to get away with all their attrocities. When they clamped down on minorities and dissenters, the average person wasn't told <i>"We're conducting genocide and crimes against humanity"</i>, but rather <i>"We're making the country great again"</i>, and so they didn't question further.<br /><br />They were pleased with their leaders when they suddenly stopped seeing all those unpleasant minorities and dissenters around getting in the way of patriotic fervor, and most didn't think to imagine what might be happening to those people after they got loaded up into train cars and the backs of trucks. Those who did stop to wonder were quickly reassured that the deportees would be fine, just fine - like a child being told their pet dog is going to live at a nice farm upstate where they'll have lots of room to run around and be happy.<br /><br />Trump operates in the same way. He tells infamous "Big Lies" about minorities and dissenters, delivering staggering falsehoods with unshakeable confidence, and promises glory and victory to be achieved through nebulous, unspecified means.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com