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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
"If the politicians cannot follow my example then I shall be forced, by their inaction, to move forward alone. My will shall lead the nation and the politicians shall follow."
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not equating the two, well slightly I admit, but Hitler projected this idea of his force of will
the italian fascists had the March of the Iron Will or the Iron Will Column, it was one of their propaganda events
Hitler believed in his IRON WILL and that his resoluteness would make all the difference
his governing style was based on the Leadership principle. underlings gave unquestioning obedience to their superiors and as he was at the top of the Leadership pyramid, he was The Leader.
it could be that Obama keeps shooting himself in the foot applying terms and slogans of dictators and totalitarians to himself. Perhaps he isn't well educated. But then again, maybe he knows what he's doing.
his re-election campaign used the "Forward" slogan, a Marxist slogan used by lenin, stalin, mao et al, now its his "will"
as maya angelou, that wonderfully talented poet laureate herself once said, “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”