Just came back from vacation and right into a surprise audit. Didn't leave my office until 10pm last night to prepare for the audit today. Anyway, now that they are auditing all my stuff, I finally have some free time to respond to Faith regarding the Obama worship videos.
As I said before, I have a lot to say about that and how comparing Obama to Hitler is completely unfounded while Trump actually falls more in line with Hitler than she is willing to admit.
Allow me to go take a trip back to Memory Lane. It was in the early 2000's (yes, I'm a millennial) and I was preparing to leave the comfort of high school to go to college. At the time, I had befriended a freshman and sort of taken over as big brother role. I drove him to all the games and other high school events. Then I started driving him to other places like the parks and whatnot.
Anyway, during my first year in college, out of no where I received an email from the high school freshman that I hung out with the previous year. In the email, he said something like I was his hero and he wanted to be just like me. It was, by all intent and purposes, a hero worship email.
I was taken aback by it. Did I get that $15k/year college scholarship, graduated in the top 10, performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, and other things he mentioned in the email just to get worshipped by this young man? Of course not. I did all those things for me. I certainly did not intend to have a follower like that.
And my point is I did not have control over whether he wanted to worship me or not just like how Obama never had control over whether people want to worship him or not.
Did Obama tell people to worship him? Did he tell them to sing a song about him? Did he incite hero/god worship for himself?
How is he responsible for other people's actions if he never incited them?
Trump, on the other hand, is using the exact same tactics as Hitler to incite hero worship.
(1) Choose some minority groups and incite the majority/dominant group to hate them.
(2) Blame the ills of the "fatherland" on the minority groups and promises to make the "fatherland" great again.
(3) Anti-establishment.
(4) Alienate neighboring nations.
(5) Make the crowds pledge their support.
(6) Throwing out lies and have followers bend over backward to double down on the lies. Example: he saw thousands and thousands of American Muslims celebrating out in the streets on 9/11.
(7) When caught in his lies, he doubles down on them.
(8) Taps into people's anger. Is it a coincidence that every white nationalist group has come out to support Trump?
Those are just some of the things off the top of my head.
Now, I'm not saying Obama is perfect. I think he's far from perfect. I don't know why people keep saying he destroyed the nation. Current unemployment rate is lowest in 30 years. Even Buffet came out and said those who are born in this generation are blessed.
I'm certainly not complaining. I just got a raise that bumped my salary up to about $100k/year. No, I'm not trying to toot my own horn. I'm just saying I'm not dirt poor and want free stuff like how republicans like to portray liberals. I've never been on unemployment or used any other public assistance. I own my own house and have unlimited use of the company car (I don't even have a personal car). I'm partnered with another man, so abortion really will never come up in our lives.
So, really I have no dog in this fight at all. I'm Asian and my boyfriend is white. It really doesn't matter to us who wins the presidency.
I look around and the nation seems fine to me. If you just listen to conservative talking points, you'd think the country was on fire or something.
For our vacation, we went to Miami, Fort Lauderdale, the Florida Keys (all of them), Naples, and the everglades. Everything looked fine.
I haven't lost any right from before Obama. Still got my gun locked in my home office.
So, clearly, the conservative talking points about how terrible Obama has been are just wrong.
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