Posted on 02/03/2016 2:53:49 PM PST by Kaslin
In 1941, journalist Dorothy Parker suggested a gruesome parlor game you could play at your next dinner party, which she called "Who Goes Nazi?" As this game was supposed to be played before anyone knew what Hitler himself would go on to do, Parker clearly meant the "born Nazi" epithet as a standard political jab rather than the over-the-top insult it has become. And for that reason, the methodology with which she judged her various dinner party companions and found them worthy (or not) of the "Nazi" designation could be readily appropriated for modern usage, provided it was used to compare them to less insane people.
And given that there are at least two candidates, one in each party, presently being likened to fascists, it only makes sense to try to do so now, by asking a similar, but more modern and different question: If the 2016 election were between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, as it now appears it could be, who would go Sanders, and who would go Trump?
Especially if you live in the sort of place where politics get discussed constantly, this can be an entertaining game to play with your friends, and I invite you to try it, with the following hypothetical group of "guests" as example starting points, who I will attempt to describe in the best imitation of the style of Dorothy Parker that I can.
Start with Mr. A, the tall, athletic man standing in the corner making good humored but risqué jokes. Mr. A, if accused of being a Republican, will tell you all too quickly that he is a very moderate one, as most such graduates of Ivy League schools will. He is more of the party of Abraham Lincoln than Ronald Reagan, despises all retrograde politics and demagoguery, and wishes that Mitch Daniels had decided to run in 2012. He works in finance, and like many financiers, has more than once contemplated crossing over to vote for Hillary Clinton due to her friendliness with Wall Street. Furthermore, he is comfortable with mild forms of identity politics because he sees it as a form of protection against those who would harm him for his sexual orientation (he is gay). He is in every way the perfect form of what many Trump voters regard as the enemy.
Yet I will hang myself if he wouldn't join them in pulling the lever for Trump, if it were between him and Sanders. He might grumble about staying home, to be sure, but if it were a real contest, I suspect he wouldn't bring himself to deliver.
I think Trump goes all the way.
Trump should beat Sanders.
Sanders even being in contention is a comment on, among other things, the DELIBERATE failure of education by the Left who somewhere way back when commandeered most all of America’s institutions including education.
“In 1941, journalist Dorothy Parker suggested a gruesome parlor game you could play at your next dinner party, which she called “Who Goes Nazi?” As this game was supposed to be played before anyone knew what Hitler himself would go on to do, Parker clearly meant the “born Nazi” epithet as a standard political jab rather than the over-the-top insult it has become. And for that reason, the methodology with which she judged her various dinner party companions and found them worthy (or not) of the “Nazi” designation could be readily appropriated for modern usage, provided it was used to compare them to less insane people.”
Does anyone even understand what this author is trying to say?
Be born Nazi?
Trump is such a vile, loathsome, self-loving egomaniac that I think Hillary or Sanders will rake right over him in the general.
He already has a large chunk of Republican voters disgusted with him that would never come out and vote for him. Hillary or Sanders will easily get their base out. Trump will have deal with Conservatives sitting out once again.
I am one of those who personally regards Trump as a low life. If in a contest between him and a standard hack Democrat, the thought of sitting this one out would cross my mind. It would be one of personal self respect. However, if the opponent was Sanders, then I would happily vote for Trump. The simple reason being that Sanders is a Communist. Sanders is the only one in the race who adheres to a totalitarian ideology. I do not state this in the manner of the loose banter thrown around in these parts. I mean Sanders is a dyed in the wool Bolshevik. Even if the choice in a general, for argument sake, was Sanders against Herself, I would vote for Herself, to prevent a real Communist from ever sitting in the Oval Office.
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