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Trump Voters, Hitler Comparisons, and Corrupt Power Structures
from Day Drinking At Borders · #5
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3 minTim relays a conversation with a die-hard Republican friend's mom who loves Trump, then argues that people who run the country are simply better at breaking the law and getting away with it, tying it back to the show's premise about imagining yourself in that position.
- 43:36Trump supporters elevating him to savior status, comparable to how the left treated Obama.
- 43:56Making any politician into a savior is worrisome, whether left or right.
- 44:07Tim explains the logic behind Trump as a wrecking ball to disrupt corrupt institutional systems.
- 44:21Hitler was also a wrecking ball thrown at a corrupt system before things got worse.
- 44:40The actual people running the country aren't afraid to break laws and are very good at it.
- 44:57Powerful people employ staffers and lawyers whose job is to take the fall or reinterpret laws.
- 45:24Tim won't judge the corrupt elite because he can't be sure he wouldn't do the same if born into their position.
- 45:58It's easy to judge from the safety of your comfortable position rather than inside the system itself.