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safeinOhio

(33,957 posts)
Wed May 11, 2016, 06:43 AM May 2016

FOX News, the appeaser.

To understand the GOP, just follow FOX, as they go so the GOP is sure to follow.
Lets go back to 2014 and the conflict in Syria

Is he the wise Dwight D. Eisenhower who understood the limits of American power and used military might as an instrument of peace?

Or the appeaser Neville Chamberlain, whose naivete accelerated Hitler’s rise and led to World War II?

Neither analogy rings true. But there are others whose choices more closely mirror Obama -- and they do not inspire optimism about where we are going.

fox new Jan. 24, 2014

Now lets look at the history of the 1930s Germany.

Aided greatly by propaganda genius Goebbels, Hitler was able to present an image of himself as a superhuman, even god like figure. He wasn’t portrayed as a politician, as Germany had had enough of them, instead he was seen as above politics. He was all things to a lot of people – although a set of minorities soon found that Hitler didn’t just not care about their support, but wanted to persecute, even exterminate them instead – and by changing his message to suit different audiences, but stressing himself as the leader at the top, he began to bind the support of disparate groups together, building enough to rule, modify and then doom Germany.

Historian Rober Wilde

For those news sources and the regular GOPers that are falling in line with Trump, you are tying you horses to Trump and if it goes wrong, you will be held accountable in history.

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