"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
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Martin Luther King Jr. //
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"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."
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George Orwell //
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How do we know you are our beloved leader? Well, you're picture will be plastered all over the billboards and on the sides of buildings.
I was born at the beginning of the Cold War and lived to see it end in 1989 with the collapse of the totalitarian regime known as the Soviet Union.
One of the things that characterizes totalitarian governments is the cult of "dear leader" worship, which explains the need for pictures of "dear leader" to be plastered on big billboards.
The only other scenario where someone's portrait is plastered on billboards is during election campaigns or marketing campaigns, which are really the same thing - attempts to get you to buy/vote/support the man or woman in the portrait, or at least what he's selling.
Every once in a while, in a democracy, a "dear leader" billboard campaign has some other aim, an aim, which in fact, takes us closer to the worship, or the whipping up of worship, of a totalitarian figure.
Of course, I suppose it could be related to the coming November Mid-Term elections, which really could be a vote of confidence on his presidency. Perhaps the size of the thing is a clue about something, too. Or maybe it's been bought and paid for by the Republican Party. Or the people behind the "Miss Me Yet?" campaign. I'll leave to you to decide:
A stubble jumper is a prairie farmer. I'm from Saskatchewan and my dad was a farmer, so the name is apt. "Redneck" needs no explanation. It's anyone who disagrees with a lunatic leftie. My blog is mostly about the Middle East but other issues also catch my eye and get me going. I monitor comments to keep out trolls and lunatic lefties. Anyone who is zealously anti-American and anti-democracy in the Middle East is NOT welcome.