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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Being charismatic worked for Reagan, who I think most Republicans would never say resemble a Hitler like following.
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Reagan certainly was charismatic, but especially in the beginning he didn't have nearly the amount of groupies Obama has right now. More importantly, his popularity started out far less focused on the man himself.
What frightens me about the fanatical Obama followers (and I don't mean those who merely support him) is that they seem to have abandoned anything even resembling realism in their expectations of him. They don't even seem to be aware that his campaign slogans are, in fact, campaign slogans. Any critical sound is pounced upon as if it were blasphemy. They themselves don't criticize anything he does or says.
To me, complete and utter devotion to a politician - any politician - is downright scary. There are no saints, but if there were, they sure as hell wouldn't be politicians. Trusting a politician as if he were the spawn of God himself is foolish and dangerous. Achieving any position of power in politics requires endless amounts of deceit, lies and manipulation, as well as an ego the size of a small planet.
If you hear someone say "we're going to repair the world!" and you shout "yes we can!" without feeling the urge to laugh at the silliness of it all, there's something seriously wrong.