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Ava | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 "The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."
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The Bird | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 His? You could say this has been an overwhelming US policy since the end of the WWII at the offset of the Cold War. This is the staple of American politics IMO
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c3c033dd | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They made the rules, he simply played their game better than them. 

Think of politics like a relationship, some are good, some are bad, and there will definitely be a breakup in the end. The question is if it's a respectful breakup or is the losing party going to lose control, retaliate, and become violent? 

For years we watched the uniparty within the Democrat/Republican coalition had the people candidates that had the same end goal. 

Trump came along and fucked them all up. It was obvious by Hillary's reaction that the uniparty thought they had won. 

He's the GHOST!