Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers:
To those who are attacking the person in this thread, please refrain from insults on a personal level, we dont allow that even if the poster is difficult and you do not like the topic. But to reply to the topic there are some similarities, especially at the beginning of what Hitler did...it also reminds me of how we rounded up Asians during the war and held them in similar type camps. I think the concept of rounding people up and putting them in guarded forced areas is what the poster is trying to discuss and he is right about that. I think Trump has some similar characteristics to dictators..he is a dictator in many ways, especially with his businesses and the way he treats others. I also think what he is doing is abusive and degrading, these are people JUST LIKE HIM...so how about we try to treat others with a level of class and respect even if we do not like some things, especially WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Germany did not start out as concentration camps gassing humans, the change happened slowly, little by little...so much that the public did not even know or go against the end result. I think as with many things Trump is going too far and I hope that politicians, the media, the court system, local and state governments continue to fight him and try to keep him in check...a dope like Trump will go as far as you let him inside his dictatorial personality.
I agree and perhaps the OP could have worded things a bit differently, but you can see how the same Trump supporters can take what he said literally as him saying Trump and Hitler are the same when it comes to what is happening at the border.
These discussions are always spun one way by the usual suspects. I am not a liberal or a lefty or a democrat, in fact I have voted Conservative more often than anything else, but the usual suspects will automatically assume you have to be if you don't fit in with their made up reality.
The part about it happening slowly and the public not going against it is exactly right. That is a similar to how Trump supporters are right now and many do not even know when Trump is lying, nor do they go against anything he says or does. With regards to killing, he could literally shoot someone on 5th ave like he said and his supporters wouldn't care. He could order to shoot everyone approaching the border and his supporters wouldn't care. He could pull off a Hitler genocide and I don't believe his supporters would care, unless it was them.
There is that quote that has a bit of irony as it relates to this thread considering who authored the quote and how Trump supporters don't care about certain types of people or how they are treated...
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the person, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a person.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."