Fooloso4 wrote:Steve, I think there are a lot more who are in lockstep, or should I say goose step, with Dachshund then one might hope to be the case...
Maybe. Anecdotally, in my immediate environment, this doesn't seem to be the case. When I step back into reality and talk to normal everyday people of all political persuasions I'm reminded just how bizarre and extraordinary his views are. But certainly he has explicitly stated here several times how wonderful he thinks it is that Trump is, as he sees it, destroying the stifling culture of political correctness which has (as he sees it) prevented people from telling these simple home truths about how large sub-sets of humanity should be disenfranchised and treated in the way that non-human animals are customarily treated.
This technique of labelling various human groups as non-humans, in order to strip them of rights and allow them to be treated in ways that are not generally considered acceptable for humans, obviously has a long history and would be an interesting topic in itself. It's interesting to think of the reasons why it works so well: There's the fact that we humans naturally tend to think in terms of a hierarchy with humans at the top and such things as insects or bacteria near the bottom. And there's the fact that the most effective comparisons are often with creatures that we tend to think of as pests (rats and cockroaches). But Dachshund's comparison with other higher primates obviously relies heavily on pointing out what are seen as unpleasant physical characteristics.
Perhaps it's worth starting a topic.