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Title: A Government of Thugs, by Thugs, for Thugs
Post by: mystery-ak on April 05, 2021, 01:33:56 pm
A Government of Thugs, by Thugs, for Thugs

The Democrats seem to have taken their cues from earlier totalitarians in the way they have built bridges to the world’s thug population.

By Paul Gottfried
April 4, 2021

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, a massive work first published in 1951, Hannah Arendt, a refugee from Nazism, noted striking similarities between Hitler’s and Stalin’s regimes. In both of those state-of-the-art tyrannies, the governing classes forged a mutually profitable alliance with society’s criminal elements. These totalitarian governments, which were concerned with ferreting out and removing opposition, took full advantage of their unsavory connections.

They enlisted inveterate criminals to spread terror, lest anyone question their ruthlessness in settling scores. The designation that the father of the late Hitler biographer Joachim Fest ascribed to the Third Reich as a “Verbrecherstaat” (criminal state) was true in two senses. Not only did the Nazis break those laws that characterize civilized societies. They also incorporated criminals into their political operation and often rewarded them. But the party leadership also eliminated some of these hellraisers when they were no longer useful, as Hitler did with the Brown Shirts in 1934.

Readers who suspect I intend to attribute these characteristics to the government that the Democratic Party and its allies are inflicting upon us have guessed correctly.

The Democrats seem to have taken their cues from earlier totalitarians in the way they have built bridges to the nation’s thug population. Not only did Democratic leaders like Kamala Harris spend last summer inciting Black Lives Matter and Antifa mobs and bailing out these practitioners of violence, Democratic appointees in the military, up to and including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, are teaching soldiers to revere BLM vandals while being put on guard against “domestic terrorists”—i.e., Republican voters. Antiwhite mobs that burn down cities and shoot police have been redefined as “antiracists” and are depicted as the natural allies of soldiers and the Secret Service.

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Title: Re: A Government of Thugs, by Thugs, for Thugs
Post by: Fishrrman on April 05, 2021, 10:24:49 pm
Gottfried:
"A Government of Thugs, by Thugs, for Thugs"

Fishrrman:
NO.
A government of socialists/communists, enforced by thugs, against a populace that is increasingly comprised of functional idiots...
Title: Re: A Government of Thugs, by Thugs, for Thugs
Post by: Sled Dog on April 05, 2021, 11:33:39 pm
Gottfried:
"A Government of Thugs, by Thugs, for Thugs"

Fishrrman:
NO.
A government of socialists/communists, enforced by thugs, against a populace that is increasingly comprised of functional idiots...

ALL socialists are thugs.