Liberalty

I heard a proposal to settle middle eastern refugees in cities where it seems like a little "revitalization" might be needed. The basic plan is people fleeing from war zones will be dispersed among places like Detroit, Baltimore, etc. That's literally the plan. These people will go here and just by them being here we will see revitalization! If you're smart enough to see the flaws in this plan congratulations, you qualify for a Ph.D. These places aren't abandoned because people just didn't feel like living there anymore. They didn't watch "How I met your mother" and say "fuck this place I'm going to New York!" No, people left because they no longer had any means of sustaining themselves in those locations. They're just going to supplant people in places where they have no familiarity with the culture, no job prospects, and among what will probably be a hostile population. I can't imagine how this might fail.

You and I March to the Beat of a Different Drum

The entire foundation of the Trump/Hitler comparison seems to be both figures made calculated statements designed to win over a potential voting demographic. Wow! I can't imagine anyone being so evil! When I hear people, it says to me most of what they know about world War 2, Hitler, and the Nazis they've learned from Saving Private Ryan and Inglorious Bastards. It also leads me to infer you believe some people are innately "evil" just a bad guy thwarted by the combined efforts of benevolent leader. Well, it has been said "evil" is found in the results of actions not the motivations behind those actions. This is an important distinction. 

The belief in supervillains is one that reinforces ambivalence to historical context. It's no more likely Hitler was the product of a communion between a headless goat and a serpent on the day of a lunar eclipse anymore as it is our current leaders are actually reptilian aliens wearing human masks. They are just the latest procession in what has been described as the "march of folly."  Humans make mistakes; they have loyalties, biases, cognitive dissonance, the whole nine yards so they are constantly making rash decisions that at best have relatively benign consequences at worse results in the incineration of a 100,000 people.

 Well, the current postwar order has dug itself into quite a hole, and all it can do is continue to dig deeper.  The realization the whole thing is already in the grave probably won't become apparent until the dirt starts being shoveled back in.