Posted on 01/17/2018 11:31:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Trumps America is in some ways even worse than Russia was during my Soviet childhood.
But even before Trump entered the White House, his worst insults were usually aimed at the independent media. Or, as he labeled it: the fake news and the enemy of the people.
As a former Soviet citizen, I am frequently overcome by a horror-movie feeling of fear and disbelief. Its almost as if I dont know where I am. In cosmopolitan New York? Or back in monotonous Moscow, listening to Soviet leaders boasting from the Kremlin about Communisms drummed-up victories and denouncing their illusory enemies?
In the early years after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and particularly under Joseph Stalins despotic regime in the 1930s, enemies of the people emerged as the regime's most terrifying label. During Stalins Great Purges of 1936-38, the term vragi naroda (enemies of the people) branded all those who disagreed with the Kremlin whether about the planned economy, unfree press or predetermined election results. That label, which defined Soviet reality, typically resulted in immediate death or imprisonment within the Gulag of harsh labor camps.
This changed when Nikita S. Khrushchev, my great-grandfather, denounced his predecessor Stalin during a 1956 speech to the Communist Party.
Of course, the flashy reality-TV-star-turned-real-estate tycoon-turned-foulmouthed president is arguably more like Charlie Chaplins buffoon character in The Great Dictator (1940) than the real Hitler or Stalin. Or perhaps Trump is more like Hollywoods mean clown Pennywise "Trumpywise" insulting some, punching others and scaring the rest.
But the real danger of this nightmare is that it gets more real every day. And the longer it lasts, the harder it will be to wake up.
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WHAT??? Didn’t you KNOW that the news is inviolate.... We can’t DARE question their attempts to gaslight the whole dang country. I mean, seriously. That’s FAR more dangerous than killing 100 million of your countrymen.
At some point, the hyperbole is so insane from the left that there’s not a chance they’re going to get a vote for dogcatcher. They won’t even vote for themselves, it’s going to get so bad.
At what point do they start going to the mental hospitals for their abject insane hatred?
My biggest concern is these nutcases are going to encourage someone to take a shot at Trump.
When does it all stop?
Agreed...
One’s response to this article can only be Ho Lee Fuk.
Hanoi Jane said we’d all want to live under Communism if we only knew what it was. Why the hellbdidn’t she move to a Communist sh1thole?
Stop talking Nina. Your attempt to equate my President to communist murderers is yet again another failure by a liberal trying to make an emotional argument.
JoMa
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