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Trump Isn’t Just Incompetent and His Agenda Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Evil.

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« on: January 25, 2018, 04:29:20 pm »

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/25/trump-isnt-just-incompetent-and-his-agenda-isnt-just-bad-its-evil

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But I want to take seriously the proposition that we don’t just have an incompetent president. We don’t just have a rude president. We don’t just have a lying president. We don’t just have a racist, misogynist president. Such judgments have become commonplace, shared by columnists of the left and right — for instance in last week’s assessment of Trump’s first year in the Sunday Review of The New York Times — and embraced as well by some prominent conservative politicians like Arizona Republican Jeff Flake.

Let’s go one step further: What if we actually have an evil president?

In his first year in office, and particularly on foreign policy, Donald Trump has been a force for evil.

I’m not arguing that he is personally evil, only that he does evil things. Nor am I speaking theologically. I don’t believe that Trump sold his soul to the devil in exchange for wealth and worldly power.

I set the bar higher. For me, bringing the world to the edge of nuclear holocaust, destroying the planet for future generations, and engaging in ethnic cleansing in the here and now are evil. And Trump, his pinkie finger pressed to his lips, has decisively shifted U.S. policy in these directions.

But what’s truly astonishing about the last year of American history is that many of the folks who routinely throw around the E word, particularly in the conservative and evangelical communities, have been entirely silent about Trump’s sins. Indeed, with the exception of #NeverTrump conservatives and evangelicals of color, these two communities remain in Trump’s cheering section despite all their blather about right and wrong. It’s bad enough that they bent over backwards to rationalize Roy Moore’s predatory conduct toward girls and Trump’s serial adultery.

The bigger problem is Trump’s attitude to the world as a whole.

His childhood teachings from the KKK, his "entitlement" attitude from his wealthy dad while growing up has created a man who thinks he's superior to all and can rule the lives of others for bad as much as he could for good.
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2018, 09:14:14 pm »

Adolf Hitler didn't take control of Germany by force.


He was elected.
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2018, 11:36:17 pm »

Adolf Hitler didn't take control of Germany by force.

He was elected.

Yes & no.  Hitler was one of an army of wandering Freikorps (I think it was), wandering about Germany & mooning about the stab in the back - the slander that Weimar surrendered unnecessarily, when Germany itself had not be defeated in the field in WWI.  A titanic lie, & Kaiser Bill should have been offered a blindfold & a cigarette (I think), along with Hindenburg, I believe it was.  The Jews, Socialists, Communists, liberals in general & educated people in general (& the Weimar republic) were blamed - for being naïve enough to believe their beloved military could prevail against very stacked odds.

These political gangs wandered about, pillaging & behaving like petty criminal gangs.  Out of these beginnings, Hitler got his start speaking in public, writing during incarceration, & generally rising to the top of the slop.  Yah, with the Brown Shirts as his enforcers, he went more-or-less legit, & did get elected & then bullied his way to the top.

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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2018, 11:56:27 pm »

He was the leader of the Nazi Party in 1933, when the Nazi Party won the most seats in the Reichstag elections.  Since no one party could form a majority coalition, president Von Hindenberg appointed Hitler as the Reich-chancellor.  Von Hindenberg died shortly thereafter, and Hitler combined the position of president with his Reich-chancellorship, creating the position of Fuhrer.
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2018, 05:44:30 pm »

Yep, ugly days, & thanks for the refresher.  Once Weimar collapsed - under draconian economic revenge from France, possibly UK, & the systematic stripping of colonies from Germany - nothing good was going to come of trying to crush Germany politically, socially & economically.  But no one seemed to credit that as a possible outcome.

Bleak days for humanity.
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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2018, 03:23:03 pm »

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/25/trump-isnt-just-incompetent-and-his-agenda-isnt-just-bad-its-evil

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But I want to take seriously the proposition that we don’t just have an incompetent president. We don’t just have a rude president. We don’t just have a lying president. We don’t just have a racist, misogynist president. Such judgments have become commonplace, shared by columnists of the left and right — for instance in last week’s assessment of Trump’s first year in the Sunday Review of The New York Times — and embraced as well by some prominent conservative politicians like Arizona Republican Jeff Flake.

Let’s go one step further: What if we actually have an evil president?

In his first year in office, and particularly on foreign policy, Donald Trump has been a force for evil.

I’m not arguing that he is personally evil, only that he does evil things. Nor am I speaking theologically. I don’t believe that Trump sold his soul to the devil in exchange for wealth and worldly power.

I set the bar higher. For me, bringing the world to the edge of nuclear holocaust, destroying the planet for future generations, and engaging in ethnic cleansing in the here and now are evil. And Trump, his pinkie finger pressed to his lips, has decisively shifted U.S. policy in these directions.

But what’s truly astonishing about the last year of American history is that many of the folks who routinely throw around the E word, particularly in the conservative and evangelical communities, have been entirely silent about Trump’s sins. Indeed, with the exception of #NeverTrump conservatives and evangelicals of color, these two communities remain in Trump’s cheering section despite all their blather about right and wrong. It’s bad enough that they bent over backwards to rationalize Roy Moore’s predatory conduct toward girls and Trump’s serial adultery.

The bigger problem is Trump’s attitude to the world as a whole.

His childhood teachings from the KKK, his "entitlement" attitude from his wealthy dad while growing up has created a man who thinks he's superior to all and can rule the lives of others for bad as much as he could for good.
I felt exactly the same towards Goober Bush. He followed his Texas God while Trumper follows his own intentional lies and many lawyers all made of BIG MONEY!
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2018, 04:09:05 pm »

So do you think if found guilty that the republicans will indite or impeach him?  Or is he good to go with what I now call the Russian REpublicans in the House?
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« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2018, 05:33:07 pm »

I'm honestly starting to believe the Republican House is starting to gear up to removing this ultimate embarrassment.  I think that may well be the impetus for the mass retirement trend we're seeing, among Republican house members (more than 30 of them are not running for reelection).  Some would rather leave on their own terms, rather than face defeat this fall ........ and still others want out, before they have to face having to remove a member of their own party, from the White House.
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« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2018, 08:33:37 pm »

I'm still wondering how many others besides Trump are involved in money laundering. If he is, that is...  Wink
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2018, 09:34:29 am »

So do you think if found guilty that the republicans will indite or impeach him? 
I used to think a couple mths ago, that Repubs would move to impeach. I'm not so sure now. Passing the tax bill was huge with many Repubs in which calmed them about Trump. It appears that they may be willing to ride this storm out to the end. It may take Trump pushing more Repubs off the political cliff that scares others to think that they may be next, bringing them to call for impeachment. Or, results of investigations produces such strong evidence of wrongdoing, that forces Congress to impeach.
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