I know, many of you are looking at that and scratching your head. I don't say Liberal plan, because I think that most Liberals would oppose any such effort. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, let's get started with a link.
Clueless celebrity watch: Let’s fight fascism with … a military coup, or something
WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE❤❤❤❤
Um. What? A Military Coup doesn't normally lead to Democracy. At least not in the history of the world. Most military coups lead to totalitarian regimes that are hardly safe havens where civil rights are acknowledged, must less respected.
But let's talk about this for a moment. During the campaign, the main talking point from the Radical Leftists was that Trump was totally a Fascist, a follower of Hitler who would create the seventeenth Reich or something.
The problem with that kind of nutty propaganda is this. Some people will believe it. Worse, it is the perfect cover for any action, no matter how extreme.
The argument is an easy one. Imagine it's the early days, and a radical named Adolph Hitler is just starting out. You know what kind of horror will befall the world, because you are from the future. You can see the future plainly. You kill Hitler, and derail the future suffering and the deaths of tens of millions.
Or let's talk about another favorite what if scenario. You have one atomic bomb and it's 1939. The Second World War has just started. One bomber destroying Berlin could end the war. Is any action you can possibly take worse than the resulting death and devastation that will come from not dropping the bomb?
Sadly, that kind of mentality is exactly what brought Hitler to power in the first place. The two main competing factions in Germany when Hitler was rising to power was the Communists, and the National Socialists. When Hindenberg was waning, the Military convinced him to make Hitler Chancelor, despite the fact that the National Socialist party had far fewer seats than the other factions in the government. But anything was preferable to the Communists gaining power. Take a moment and consider that. The perceived threat of Hitler was much less worrisome than the possibility that the Communists would take power.
The Military and the Conservatives imagined that they could control Hitler, and there wasn't anyone else who they imagined could take charge and keep the Communists out.
Hitler was the lesser of two evils for the power brokers of the day.
Once he had the position, he went after the Communists first. Then he consolidated power, and kept tightening the noose around the necks of the Germans. But at least Hitler was stopping the Communists.
The Military started behind him, and stayed behind him. The Military enabled the rise to power of Hilter folks.
Now the fantasy of people like Silverman is this. The Military takes control, and whatever they do is fine, because at least they aren't Trump. But how do you oppose a Military Juanta? How do you force them to respect civil rights? What happens if the Military put a madman in charge that makes Trump look great by comparison?
Where we are now is the inevitable result of defining ourselves by what we are not. I can easily tell you what I believe in, because those principles haven't changed no matter who the President was, or who was in power. I opposed the PATRIOT ACT when Bush was President. I didn't relax my opposition just because Obama had the office. I didn't feel better when it was his Secret Police. I still oppose it because it is wrong. It isn't wrong because Trump is in charge. It's wrong no matter who is in charge.
But over the last two decades, the political parties have become little more than petulant children. We have become some insane version of a High School Homecoming football game. We're going to win because we're blue. Go big Red, kick that Blue ass. We wear blue and red to show what team we support. Those red guys suck. Suck it Blue.
The principles that used to guide the parties are gone. What do we stand for? We stand for winning. We are totally opposed to losing. Not because of policy or the ideals that were the foundation of those principles.
The argument can be made for both parties, that they are on the road to a Fascist or Totalistarian form of Government. Both arguments are false. Neither the Democratic Party, nor the Republican Party are on the road to either Fascist or Socialist/Communist forms of Government.
Someone asked earlier what Trump would have to do before those who voted for him opposed or rejected him. Basically, I've already begun to oppose certain policies. One of the first I opposed was the blind belief that law enforcement is always good/right. I reject authoritarian ideals no matter who proposes them. I objected to them when President Obama had a website to name your neighbors or friends who opposed the ACA or other policies. I objected to them when Bush was spouting the either for us or against us nonsense. I will always object to them no matter who proposes the asinine argument.
That is the advantage to being motivated by informed principles. You argue for your principles no matter who is in charge. I am not, and I would hope that none of you reading this fall into the category of silly High School football cheering at the homecoming. I don't want to see either team Blue destroyed nor Team Red wiped from the face of the earth. I want to see principled discussions, not charges and counter charges of hypocrisy, no matter how justified they are. I want us to act like Americans, who Charlie Daniels correctly pointed out, may disagree at times, but that nobody should mess with because we will come together as one people, with one unified goal.
USA 2009 compared to 2017... You need to quit huffing paint.
