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Richard Gere: Donald Trump is America’s Mussolini – but intelligent people aren’t seeing this
The Evening Standard ^
| March 3, 2016
| Alison Roberts
Posted on 03/04/2016 4:55:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The actor brings his campaign for social change to London and talks getting ready for a political battle
It's two days since Super Tuesday, that milestone in the US presidential primary calendar and the point at which candidates truly emerge from the party fray. And everyone -- of course -- is talking about Donald Trump.
"Here's a guy who's obviously Mussolini," says the actor and Hollywood A-lister Richard Gere, who's in London to raise awareness of homelessness with a new film called Time Out of Mind. He's been on the road for the past week -- to Dublin and Glasgow, visiting homeless shelters, meeting people on the streets -- and talks with a pained weariness, as though Trump and his supporters were personally responsible for his jet lag.
"How is it possible that people would be supporting this guy? You can try to find reasons. It's about how disillusioned they are, how afraid, how confused. [Trump] is a demagogue, a clown -- but people like clarity. Here's this guy who says, 'I'm going to fix this problem for you. It doesn't matter how, I'll just take care of it'. He's finding villains everywhere and then telling people he'll get rid of them." Gere extends the dictator analogy, alluding to Trump's pledge to close borders to Muslims and build a wall between the US and Mexico....
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; TV/Movies
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Richard Gere probably thinks Obama is America’s John Kennedy, but Daniel Ortega is more accurate.
Get packed up for Canada Richard!
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:05:51 PM PST
by
Hostage
(ARTICLE V)
To: MagUSNRET
To: 2ndDivisionVet
FDR was a liberals dream. He openly admired Mussolini. Roosevelt himself called Mussolini admirable and professed that he was deeply impressed by what he has accomplished. The admiration was mutual. In a laudatory review of Roosevelts 1933 book Looking Forward, Mussolini wrote, Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.
Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism. The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, repeatedly praised Roosevelts adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies and the development toward an authoritarian state based on the demand that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Soon after having taken his second Oath of Office in January 1937, President Roosevelt, in a conversation with a speechwriter, articulated his belief that the limits on governmental power that were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution were impediments to the transformative social and economic policies he wished to implement: "When the chief justice read me the oath and came to the words 'support the Constitution of the United States,' I felt like saying: 'Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy -- not the kind of Constitution your court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.'" FDR chose to attack the depression with his so-called New Deal: a series of economic programs passed during his first term in office. These programs greatly expanded the size, scope, and power of the federal government, giving the President and his Brain Trust near-dictatorial status. I want to assure you, Roosevelt's aide Harry Hopkins told an audience of New Deal activists in New York, that we are not afraid of exploring anything within the law, and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do legal. http://freedomoutpost.com/hitler-mussolini-fdr-and-obama/
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:06:51 PM PST
by
jessduntno
(The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:07:01 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: RckyRaCoCo
Anyone missing a gerbil?
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:07:09 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(, Voting to elect Trump as president is the only known cure for chronic TDS!)
To: RckyRaCoCo
Anyone missing a gerbil?
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:08:44 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(, Voting to elect Trump as president is the only known cure for chronic TDS!)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
“Intelligence” turns out to be one of those traits that has an infinitely elastic definition, depending on who may be applying the label. To those of Richard Gere’s ilk, “intelligent” = “liberal”, so by definition, those who are not of liberal viewpoint, cannot be intelligent.
Nothing at all to do with critical thinking, or applied logic, or pragmatic acceptance of basic principles that have proven over centuries, eons, of human experience.
At one time, FDR greatly admired the systematic reform of Italy under Mussolini, because “he made the trains run on time”. That supposed efficiency was largely the model for the “National Recovery Act”.
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:09:50 PM PST
by
alloysteel
(If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He looks terrible.
Too many gerbils will do that.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In 1967, Gere graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music, playing the trumpet.[2] He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, majoring in philosophy, but did not graduate, leaving after two years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gere
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:11:13 PM PST
by
digger48
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Wha?"
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:11:35 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(So our choice will be either Trump or Clinton? I need a drink.)
To: JennysCool
Who has the pic of Obama as Il Duce? Its MUCH more apropos.
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:12:12 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(, Voting to elect Trump as president is the only known cure for chronic TDS!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
That doesn’t mean that Gere doesn’t support Trump, after all:
‘Just as progressives were generally enthusiastic about socialist movements in the Soviet Union and Europe, they were also overwhelmingly supportive of the fascist movements in Italy and Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. In many respects, writes journalist Jonah Goldberg, the founding fathers of modern liberalism, the men and women who laid the intellectual groundwork of the New Deal and the welfare state, thought that fascism sounded like ... a worthwhile ‘experiment’:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1223
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:12:14 PM PST
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: RckyRaCoCo
.
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:12:20 PM PST
by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No, but I do think we have a GOPe that is very much in the spirit of a Heinrich Bruning.
On page 168 of “Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler”
“...which explains the paradox of Bruning’s reputation as the last defender of the Weimar Constitution. He was not. He was called in to stage a coup...”
What we’ve got is an establishment bent on finding a figurehead to rule through, an establishment that is drunk on their own supposed brilliance.
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:12:33 PM PST
by
BlackAdderess
("They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ---Andy Warhol)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
I thought making the trains run on time was Michael Dukakis job?I thought that was tanks...
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:13:58 PM PST
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Dalai Lama should bitch slap this airhead.
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:16:18 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Richard Gere is suffering from lack of oxygen...
From his crainial/rectal inversion.
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:17:12 PM PST
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hee we are, looking to Hollywood for political guidance. Dis t Richard Gere play Mussolini once?
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posted on
03/04/2016 5:17:18 PM PST
by
Sasparilla
(Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So I suppose Richard is more intelligent since he supports Hillary or Bernie? Asswipe.
To: El Cid
Why not both?
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