Frank Zappa was a magnificent political scientist

[90-percent]

He sure as hell called this one right. It's a FB meme somebody more talented than I created.



-90% Jimmy

[blm]

1. Zappa and Carlin were great at boiling politics down to its stark reality.

[if..fish..had..wings]

2. I LOVE Zappa but ...

Hitler received 37% of the vote, not enough to win.
He was appointed Chancellor.

However, the NSDAP did indeed use the tools of democracy to destroy democracy, and once Hitler was Chancellor they replaced it with dictatorship.

[Roy Rolling]

5. And Trump ?

3 million votes fewer than Hillary, but he’s president.

The OP issue is valid, the vote in Germany issue is a distraction.

People vote in horrible leaders sometimes, mobilizing (exploiting) the less-intelligent leads to an Idiocracy.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. We're not using the words dictatorship and power grab enough

People are sort of numb to what's going on

[SergeStorms]

13. Or fascism.

I use the word 'fascism' whenever possible when speaking about Trump or the GOP. I get the strangest looks sometime. I don't think many Americans really understand what the word means, but I'm always happy to provide the definition.

"a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition."

[90-percent]

15. well what do you know, i made a bumper sticker about that!

-90% Jimmy

[calimary]

3. Quote of the year!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. He was taken from us way too soon

And it’s not fair. 😪

[mountain grammy]

7. More Zappa wisdom

“Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white”

Frank Zappa

Wish he was still around.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. He was a genius. At many thingS.

And one of the most under appreciated guitarist of all time. And one of the most under appreciated composers of all time. He was MAGNIFICENT.

[Pepsidog]

9. Thank goodness Trump is a no mind or we would be worse. I recently read a post on DU that

explained that Hitler’s administration was just like Trump’s in that it was chaos and back-stabbing. It was everyone for themselves, like Trump’s administration. When Trump was elected I compared him to the Weimar Republic and several of my friends thought I was deranged. If Trump had a political philosophy he would be much more dangerous.

[PatrickforO]

12. No, I was right with you on that one. The parallels between the Republicans from 2012 on

with the Weimar Republic are striking. And Trump/McConnell/Miller - just like Adolph, Hermann and Reinhard Heydrich. What totally kills me is that a third of our population, like 100 million people, would go 'nazi' in a heartbeat.

[cos dem]

10. Whoever we are, wherever we're from...

We shoulda noticed by now, our behavior is dumb
And if our chances expect to improve
It's gonna take a lot more, than trying to remove the other race
Or the other whatever, from the face
Of the planet altogether

[PatrickforO]

11. Like the other poster said, Zappa and Carlin were both great at getting to 'stark reality.'

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. ANother Zappa quote about politics that I just love:

"Politics is the entertainment division of industry."