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In reply to the discussion: Would you support a denazification type program if we return to power? [View all]jcmaine72
(1,785 posts)...to keep bandying about the word "Nazi" at every single conceivable turn and continue to apply it with such a broad brush to everyone and everything we find distasteful. That term used to have a very specific meaning, referring to a very specific genocidal regime in history. Now it's tossed about casually like bags of peanuts at a baseball game. It was once used hyperbolically, although hardly ever by the generation of Americans that actually fought the Nazis and witnessed their atrocities firsthand.Today, it's applied so generously and to such a wide spectrum of Americans it genuinely boggles the mind that there aren't nightly Hitler Youth rallies by torchlight in every small town and suburban park and green space.
If Trump is a doctrinaire National Socialist/Nazi (Schmuck....yes. Habitual liar and degenerate...yes. Cruel and stupid...yes. Nazi....no!) than by extension, over 50% of America's population are Nazis as well, including (sadly) increasing numbers of non-white Americans. If that, along with banning any/all political opposition and forcible "re-education" (At gunpoint, I presume) is how some people think the Democratic Party should move forward in order to win elections then maybe they should register as Republicans themselves, since they are the very thing they're accusing them of being.
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