PVS
Active Member
while i agree that bush exploited 9/11 and attempted to usher in a dictatorship, i cannot see a logical comparison between civil liberty issues today and nazi germany.
why? simple. hitler succeeded, bush failed.
in order to pull of a successful coup of this nature, the would-be dictator has to strike while the iron is hot, which ultimately means sticking their own necks out.
its always easy to whip dumb rednecks into a frightened frenzy but it takes an extraordinary state of widespread panic to pull off a coup. for a brief time that opportunity
existed, but not now (assuming we don't have another similar or worse catastrophe)
imo bush and co. took more of a smart marketing approach. start small and gauge response, then expand upon that and gauge response. they went about it too
slowly and cautiously. years of selling the war in iraq, domestic spying, foreign detention, scrapping habeas corpus, etc. i wonder how history would have unfolded
if hitler took such an approach.
regardless of how evil, history's greatest dictators tended to have one thing in common: balls.
bush had no balls. thank god for that.
well thats my opinion anyway.
however to say that our government is doing a BETTER job at pulling off a dictatorship than hitler? eeeh :/
why? simple. hitler succeeded, bush failed.
in order to pull of a successful coup of this nature, the would-be dictator has to strike while the iron is hot, which ultimately means sticking their own necks out.
its always easy to whip dumb rednecks into a frightened frenzy but it takes an extraordinary state of widespread panic to pull off a coup. for a brief time that opportunity
existed, but not now (assuming we don't have another similar or worse catastrophe)
imo bush and co. took more of a smart marketing approach. start small and gauge response, then expand upon that and gauge response. they went about it too
slowly and cautiously. years of selling the war in iraq, domestic spying, foreign detention, scrapping habeas corpus, etc. i wonder how history would have unfolded
if hitler took such an approach.
regardless of how evil, history's greatest dictators tended to have one thing in common: balls.
bush had no balls. thank god for that.
well thats my opinion anyway.
however to say that our government is doing a BETTER job at pulling off a dictatorship than hitler? eeeh :/