Read carefully the key extracts from SALON here below and believe it or not – the truth always wins in the
end no matter our opinions otherwise – the truth must prevail:
KEY PARTS FROM ARTICLE HEADLINE:
“Trump's Big Lie and
Hitler's Big Lie: Is this how America's slide into totalitarianism begins?”
Hitler undermined Germany's democracy by lying about outcome of WWI. Trump and MAGA are constantly lying about the 2020 election outcome.
Thanks to the 2020
presidential election, there is now a convenient way to answer the above truth
premise (in my view at least):
+ Hitler rose to
power because he told a Big Lie about not losing WWI. Millions of people believed that Big Lie
because they held more sinister beliefs; millions more likely didn't believe
it, but weren't willing to denounce it as an outright lie at the time.
+ That same
dynamic is true regarding Trump's claim that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election from him. (Still sustained today by Trump).
It is a Big Lie being embraced to advance a racist,
anti-democratic agenda. Anyone who doesn't stand up to that Big Lie today would
have likely been complicit in Hitler's Big Lie last century.
A lot of prominent Republicans (not all) try to worm their
way around this issue by not quite saying they believe the Big Lie, but
rather that it is somehow validated by the fact that many other people agree
with it.
Two Examples:
First: Shortly before Trump egged on his supporters to storm the
Capitol on January 6, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that America should rely on a white nationalist precedent to
resolve the election (in Trump's favor) because: “Recent polling shows that 39% percent of Americans believe the election
was rigged. You may not agree with that assessment; nonetheless it’s a reality
for nearly half the country.”
Second: Then add in this astonishingly shocking statement from Justice Clarence Thomas that he made in a similar argument one month later in a dissent about a case regarding the use of mail-in ballots in the swing state of PA.
Thomas wrote in part: “That an election
free from strong evidence of systemic fraud is not alone sufficient for
election confidence, but that people on the losing side of an
election need the assurance that fraud will not go undetected.”
(Note: My
emphasis highlighted to the two above statements).
Never mind that there is literally no evidence that mail-in voting is particularly susceptible to fraud.
Thomas' argument was essentially the same as Cruz's: “Even if there isn't evidence of fraud, if
one side claims the other side might have stolen an election, that's
enough to justify making it harder for the other side to vote.”
Let's call these
things what they are: “Attempts by
Republican officials (again, some not all) to exploit Trump's Big Lie to create
permanent Republican rule, but without quite saying that they agree with the
Big Lie itself. But even if those prominent Republicans (again, some not all) don't flat-out say that the Big Lie is
true, refusing to denounce it, emboldens more people to believe it
— and that emboldens our policy makers to change society based around it.”
My 2 Cents: I felt the above article and subject matter of the Big Lie used by Hitler and now Trump’s Big Lie were comparable in purpose.
Some readers
may not agree with that, but once Justice Thomas’ 2020 decent is factored in for
that PA ballot case, I find it hard for anyone not be agree.
But, that’s who we are.
Nevertheless the truth must always prevail, right?
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