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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is the "cruelty potential" of this Administration?
How much cruelty are they capable of administering on the American people?
Are they capable of sending Americans to foreign prisons and gulags?
Are they capable of denying healthcare to our most vulnerable citizens?
Are they capable of instilling fear and anxiety in all our citizens with their threats and actions?
Are they capable of cracking down on protesters with the military or quasi-military units like ICE?
Are they capable of killing Americans by the millions? (Perhaps we should include pandemics?)
Are they capable of letting Americans starve or freeze to death?
What is the limit to their cruelty?

bucolic_frolic
(50,014 posts)but I think it's like WWF with rubber sledge hammers all the while telling you the doctor will test your reflexes.
harumph
(2,673 posts)There are only external limits. Trump et al. do not have internal limits. They cannot be reasoned with by
anything but opposing power or credible threats. No ethos other than raw lust for power guides their actions.
sop
(13,865 posts)Blues Heron
(6,827 posts)Irish_Dem
(68,794 posts)There are no limits to their behavior.
They will do whatever it takes to to gain
Money and power.
OLDMDDEM
(2,468 posts)Hugin
(36,063 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,113 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:30 AM - Edit history (1)
Fascist fucks. One would think that killing or impoverishing your consumers would give them pause.
Silly me.
unblock
(55,037 posts)"no, we can't do that, that's going too far, that would be wrong."
I can't recall them ever saying that. They always do whatever they can get away with, their only constraints are external.
They're already talking about annexing other countries, kidnapping and exiling and imprisoning u.s. citizens, etc.
This isn't even hitler 1933 anymore, we're getting close to hitler 1937 in many ways. Fortunately, no enabling act yet, but it remains to be seen. Next budget, much of his crap will be normalized hen the republican congress gives him 99% of everything he wants.
kentuck
(113,583 posts)And the more desperate they become, the more cruelty we will see.
It could happen here?