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Nevertheless, heâs still polling somewhat competitively in the 2016 GOP field.
Nevertheless? More like cause and effect.
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Gestapo tactics, because Freedom!
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George Orwell had Ben Carson in mind.
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More Sicherheitsdienst than Gestapo, but, yeah. Because FREEEEDOOOOOOMMMMMMM!
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Maybe instead of firing people, we could set up camps in Alaska for their re-education?
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Oh yeah, that will work:
When I had a Fulbright in a communist country fifteen years ago, everybody knew who the Party cadre in the office wasâhe was the guy who never did any work.
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Stasi. Maybe when he is president he can ask Angela Merkel how it was to live and work under the Stasi.
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You know, it wouldnât take all that much work to modify the Hilary Clinton campaign logo into an âIâm with saneâ t-shirt".
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sparking cheers from the crowd of Iowa Republican voters.
âFiring government employeesâ is a sure fire crowd pleaser in Iowa.
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Shorter Carson: Make government smaller by growing it!
I began to explain Dr Carson to my apolitical better-half last night.
She immediately chimed in regarding tokenism on the part of RWNJs.
I was going to begin with some nuance-- but halted-- and admitted she was âclose enoughâ.
Nuance is not only wasted on RWNJs-- but on any explanation of them.
jw1
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In Iowa on Wednesday, according to MSNBC, Carson said he was âthinking very seriouslyâ about creating âa covert division of people who look like the people in this room, who monitor what government people do.â
So, basically, he wants to create an all white, Republican covert division to spy on their coworkers in order to find ways to get them fired. Thatâs next level douchebaggery and itâs dumb as hell. It would almost certainly lead to his spies targeting people they merely dislike for reasons that have nothing to do with their job and it would definitely lead to his spies justifying their jobs by turning in innocent workers. Does this man think through any of his ideas?
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What he is proposing sounds a lot like old Soviet style management techniques. Whatâs next, commissars and thought police. Not only does he not know anything about America, its politics or science, Carson doesnât know the first thing about leadership. At the very least somebody ought to tell him that Orwellâs books were cautionary tales, not instruction manuals.
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You know somethingâŚthey should just abandon bringing back the X-Files.
Back then, yeah, it was fantastical that the government was involved in all these conspiraciesâŚnow it would just be a documentary on how the government is involved in dozens of conspiracies.
Well, thatâs the thing. The Conservatives actually do not believe in freedom, democracy and liberty. They believe in setting up a totalitarian state with them in power.
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Will this new Department of Snitches get you fired for cheating on your chemistry exam even if Jesus himself cribs for you?
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Itâs typical GOPer thinking. They take a failed idea, and try it again, calling it new. But only if itâs offensive enough.
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We need to start a pool to predict which of the 2016 Republican contenders will be the first to call for the return of HUAC.
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If heâs elected president, Republican 2016 presidential Ben Carson said he might set up a âcovert divisionâ of government employees to monitor coworkers in order to make government more efficient.
Republicans sure have an alarmingly different way of looking at the world.
Wow.
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Well, why not? There are probably still unemployed East German Stasi who would consult on setting up the program.
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My wife is boricua. Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have some things in common, including similar foods, music, etc⌠One Dominican lady once told me of a cadre of individuals who, during the dictatorship of Rafeal Trujillo, would sidle up to others (maybe, for example, shopkeepers) and make off-hand remarks about the government. Of course these special âgovernment employeesâ would have the task of tricking people into making anti-Trujillo remarks, which would lead to dire consequences.
Imagine the demoralizing nature of this practice.
Further, imagine the stilted nature of conversations regarding work, the nature of work, initiatives at work, opinions about chain of command, evaluations, dangers involved in work, promotions.
I could go on.
Here we have Carson, an adult in a so-called ârepresentative democracyâ, like the U.S.,promoting a line of thinking which is so much like totalitarian systems of government.
Stunning in authoritarianismâŚspoon-fed to rural anarchistsâŚspeech-defying in stupidity
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