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Originally Posted by AndrewG
I still think that IF you think you have the moral high ground and want to be politically correct making that comparison is also quite immoral.
I've visited the dreadful remains of some of the outcome of Adolf's policies and actions in Poland. I'm not so sure Trump's policies / business deals etc hold the same destructive impact AT ALL on this planet currently and would appear in the future regardless of what happens over the next 4-8 years.
But this is my personal opinion.  |
And this mine :) I don't say I have the moral high ground, but I do believe mine is somewhat higher than Trump's. My comparison flowed directly from the video you found great and funny.
Trump's appealing to the fearful and the worried by targeting key identifiable groups as the root of so many ills is very concerning to me, just as a key plank in the Brexit rhetoric did. I too have seen the remains of the terrible outcomes in 40s Germany, and whilst genocide on such a scale is not something absent in the world, I hope and trust we will not see it again in our countries/societies. What IS to me worrying is how much bigotry does still reside in people's minds/hearts, and how when used as a platform in a campaign it serves somehow to legitimise that bigotry for some. We have seen an increase here in the UK post-Brexit, I have seen friends here made to experience fear for the first time in decades, even in their lives, because of their ancestry. There is evidence that Trump's campaign is having a similar effect in the USA. I am reminded again of Pastor Niemoller's words .. and that all that is required for evil to flourish is for others to stand by and say nothing. There is a kernel of evil in many people's hearts still .. and to play on and to that with grandiose populist statements in the pursuit of power is at best irresponsible, at worst wickedly indifferent to the likely result. That puts the level of moral ground on which Trump stands way below mine, and that of many others.