Personal Commentary ~
I am always conflicted
about talking Hitler, so I share my colleague's astute assessment of
the “similarities between Hitler and Trump propaganda” after
thinking about it for a good bit of time.
I've had it drilled into me over
the years that nothing compares to the Holocaust and that truth often precludes my bringing it into conversation but when, as Leslie Salzillo says “Ignoring...could
keep 45 in power longer” – I believe it. I also believe we need to know it.
Because I am not one who goes through life just believing what I am told so a very long time ago I actually read Hitler's book. It is where I learned this:
Often, those of his ilk tell us almost exactly what they believe
and almost exactly what they intend to do so I am of the mind that we proceed with our eyes wide open.
I've highlighted some of
the points Leslie made, the one's that stood out to me and I encourage you to hit
the link below and read her 3-minute piece in full!
TY!
Focused Read in 1:15 minutes
“Ignoring these
similarities between Hitler and Trump propaganda—could keep 45 in
power longer
Donald Trump has been
compared to the WWII German dictator Adolf Hitler numerous times. One
glaring similarity is their use of propaganda to manipulate the
people. …
Nazi propaganda was used
to convince a country that it was acceptable to dispose of the
Jewish, the mentally ill, the homosexuals, the political
objectors/resisters…By continuous, public vilification, Hitler
perpetuated both an insidious and overt hatred toward certain sects
of people. But his talent for manipulation did not begin when he took
office. It started much earlier while he was in prison.
Below are excerpts from
Hitler’s book Mein Kampf (Chapter VI).
The soon to be murderous
world leader outlines the psychological tools he would later use to
convince the masses to follow him. … “
Propaganda must always
address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...)
All propaganda must be
presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as
not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom
it is directed. (…)
… The broad masses of
the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public
jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned
judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children
who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (…)
The great majority of a
nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought
and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.
This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent.
It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and
positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and
falsehood.
“As to the methods he
would use, he explains:
(…) The receptive
powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is
feeble. (…)
No matter what an
amount of talent employed in the organization of propaganda, it will
have no result if due account is not take of these fundamental
principles. Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and
these must be represented again and again.
“Thus, Trump’s “Make
America Great Again”appeals to the less educated who perhaps
interpret the slogan as a game-changer and possibly their key to
personal success. (...)
The MAGA slogan can also
imply America is not great because of some people—“some” often
pertaining to anyone who doesn’t look or believe like white
pseudo-Christian Trump supporters. Again, we have the undesirables,
and in Trump’s world they include Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, Jews…
Trump’s constant
degradation of the press, which he calls “Fake News” also works
to his favor and is well played...Then
when the media questions or attacks him, he plays the victim …
But Trump and Bannon might
not have realized their biggest obstacle and deterrent between the
deployments of propaganda via Hitler—and now, are that today we
have social media to expose fraud and manipulation. … "
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