First, from Scott Adams, who got his MBA from Berkeley.
Speaking of Hitler, I’m ending my support of UC Berkeley, where I got my MBA years ago. I have been a big supporter lately, with both my time and money, but that ends today. I wish them well, but I wouldn’t feel safe or welcome on the campus. A Berkeley professor made that clear to me recently. He seems smart, so I’ll take his word for it.
I’ve decided to side with the Jewish gay immigrant who has an African-American boyfriend, not the hypnotized zombie-boys in black masks who were clubbing people who hold different points of view. I feel that’s reasonable, but I know many will disagree, and possibly try to club me to death if I walk on campus.
Second,
The link in Scott’s first sentence of his complete post leads to an article titled ‘This Hitler Nonsense‘ that is a must read. Her’s a tiny taste.
The idea of comparing an American president to Hitler is just as absurd …from any angle, in any context. The American system ITSELF pretty much prevents “Hitlers” from showing up. And America ITSELF is anathema to what Hitler was trying to create. An American ANYTHING or ANYONE is hard to fit into the Hitler model. It’s just not apples to apples.
There are some fundamental things to understand about Hitler:
1. He took over a small, failing state that didn’t have separated government, enumerated powers or checks and balances. It’s difficult for a guy like that to show up here, in this system.
2. His entire political career was violent from the beginning. There was always death in his wake. He didn’t just suddenly “turn” violent. It was a pattern …as it always is with sociopaths. This is THE most important thing to watch; the violence. I always keep an eye on who is rioting …breaking things …throwing rocks and bombs. It doesn’t make them Nazis. But it signals how far they’re willing to go.
Plenty before and after that adds critical context and as I said, a must read.
One more point, which I’ll get to later, but that has some context in item two above. I have some liberal friends who are justifying the opposition to Trump to that of the TEA Party in 2009/2010.
First, no one I know on “my side” is complaining about the fundamental Amerian right to peacefully protest, shout, write, or otherwise use all legal first amendment protected means to show your opposition to anyone or anything. Have at it.
But the TEA Party didn’t punch people, pepper spray them, throw rocks at them, beat them, destroy property, set fires, throw eggs at Democrats attending Obama’s Inaugural Ball, nor did they, whether lawfully armed and marching in DC or just asking questions at Townhalls, fire a shot or leave a huge mess for someone else to clean up.
In fact, I bet there are more stories about TEA Partiers getting beaten or mistreated by lefty thugs and miscreants than the other way around. This leads us back to Regie’s point two above. It doesn’t make them Nazis, but it signals how far they are willing to go.
All the recent riots were inspired and motivated by the left. Most of the not so recent riots were motivated or inspired by the left.
If you want people to respect your opinion, your opposition, stop using it as an excuse to silence words you don’t want others to hear, to harm individual you disagree with or indifferent passersby, to destroy property belonging to others, or to inconvenience everyday lives with your hyperbolic tantrums.
Most regular Americans don’t give a sh*t what you think. If you insist on this non-stop rampage of fire and assault and ruin, they’ll begin to care more about stopping you anything else because there simply aren’t enough of you to move the needle any other direction.
And for those of you buying the media narrative, making excuses for this destructive behavior, and pretending it’s just free speech, you need to turn off the TV news, walk away from the legacy print media, and get out more. These “anti-Trump protests” are going to end up killing people while you peddled nostrums and lied to yourselves about what it really is. Creeping Fascism.
