pbrower2a
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« on: August 15, 2017, 10:30:16 PM » |
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I recall Ronald Reagan showing unambiguous contempt for Klansmen and neo-Nazis who wanted him on their side.
You may have disagreed with him... but he had his wisdom. Donald Trump has no wisdom.
There is no possible rehabilitation of the image of the Nazis -- none possible at all. Anyone who attaches himself to the Nazis has detonated the philosophical and moral equivalent of a a live grenade upon his soul.
As American soldiers who waged war against the demonic cause of Nazism and the survivors of the Holocaust die off. Humanity continues to hate Nazis as if it was they were victims of Nazism. In a way we all are. We would be better off with large Jewish communities in central Europe that Hitler and his thugs exterminated. That is before I even discuss the other millions of victims of Nazism -- Roma, the Polish intelligentsia, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, political dissidents of all nations, victims of Nazi terror bombing from Belfast to Belgrade... Anyone who attaches to Nazism has sold his soul to the Evil One.
It's hard to see any equivalent to Nazism. The great carnage in the wake of the Mongol conquests results from weak control by the conquerors and the primitive morality of the Middle Ages. First Peoples of the Americas? At times, unintended consequences. The Atlantic slave trade? A Holocaust in its own right. The massacres of the Armenians? Really, really bad. Commie crimes? You are getting there.
If Dante Aligheri were writing his Inferno today... he would have an especially nasty bolgia just for Nazis.
Donald Trump must resign from the Presidency now before he can further debase an office that has had such illustrious figures as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and both Presidents with the surname Roosevelt.
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