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Unlawfully detained for six weeks after being kidnapped off the street by plain-clothes officers for writing an op-ed in her school paper.
But Kamala had a funny laugh.
Not the reason Kamala wasn't elected.
People want change. Kamala did not represent that. We are at a point where people will choose a fucking orange clown NPD if it means change. Dems have to put up or shut up.
This is on them as much as it is on Trump and his followers. Those people always exist. It's on the alternatives in politics to offer a better option. They have not for some time now.
Not to mention that the dems have actively subverted anyone who steps forward to offer said alternative.
Hitler got elected because people wanted change. And he was appearently very popular at first, with a very unique, strong and beautiful voice and nice blue eyes that the ladies went for. Tons of charisma.
Of course almost all mentions of Hitler shows him as a raving lunatic, because thats how we want people to think about him. But its dangerous, because it doesnt show how someone like that actually ended up in power and was popular and listened to by the entire country. How he did that is what we need to pay attention to. He probably had a simular mix of charisma, confidence and even charm that the orange man has.
You guys have to be careful to not let Trumpster get too far. They never teach at school how to go against leaders, because they want obedient workers. But you have to learn that and realize how some peoples brains are tricked into supporting someone like this.
You're exactly right. Which is why my point is that in our two party system, the "left" has to put up an inspiring candidate to beat him. Hitler and Trump are essentially the same archetype, rejected narcissists who prey on people's fear by feeding them scapegoats. About 30% of the population has narcissistic, authoritarian sentiments at any given time. So for such a person to come to power, they only need to suppress the opposition below a plurality of 30%.
In Nazi Germany, Hitler came to power because the left was fractured by bickering among the many factions. They refused to unite into a coalition to address the problems of the Great Depression.
In MAGA America, we have the two party system which prevents voter fracturing, but the liberals are refusing to embrace the need for change and thus suppressing their own voter base below the 30% by platforming the status quo while people are suffering and unhappy.