i don't read polls often. this one was worth reading.

hey easy clent some of us were edumacated in statesia here

Looks like people took my comment too serious; looks like you've uncovered the reason.

Probably the same assholes that keep talking about animals infiltrating human society. Bunch’a rubes, if you ask me.

He called off the oldest reliable pollster, Gallup. He didn't say twitter and others had to stop. Weird a president can do that.

When you think about it that way it’s no surprise they worship the Orange Pedo as the Second Coming of Christ. You’ve been Living A Wicked Life and have Gone Down The Path Of Sin, and so you deserve to be smited by the divine! But the divine never answered his prayers; you and all those other icky upstart ‘sinful people’ kept having a nice job and everything that he felt should be taken from you.

And then Trump comes along and grants his prayers with deportations and shootings and everything else he thinks you deserve. Is it any wonder he’s willing to suffer himself, as long as you ‘get what’s coming to you’?

Pretty much everybody I know on the right (and conservative) fall into 2 camps:

"There's only 2 pronouns, male and female" or "I don't keep up with the news these days".

When that's what progress is going up against, and it's nearly 50% (or more) of the population, I just don't know how we can continue as a country.

So he got into power without any voting. ? Am I understanding you correctly ?

So in that case I guess we don't know very accurately how many people supported him at that point.

It would probably be speculating at best to his popularity.

It does seem though in general, initially he was fairly popular with the people and some of the other politicians.

I think the biggest thing that was so wild to learn about this relative was when they expressed that my wife and I going to college has basically tainted us. It is their belief that going to a university basically ruins anyone that attends. That's some real tell me you know nothing about higher education without telling me...

So, in this case, the major problem with me (and my wife) is getting a higher education and not supporting the GOP. That's about the extent of what they know about our politics, really. It's not like we sit around reeling off readings of Karl Marx at gatherings like this.

Looks like peole

i am glad you are taking it with good humor

There was a election and his party received the most votes, but it was far from what they needed to govern just by themselves. He had to find another party willing to form a coalition with to get above the required threshold. The other parties with strong results, the Left and the Social Democrats, refused to join him for obvious reasons. The Centre Party thought he could be easily controlled and saw their chance to get into government with him. They did not take him or his threats seriously.

Everything he did to seize power was completely legal, he just used the system against itself. And to circle back to the original point: While his party was popular at the time, the vast majority of people did not want them in power. As you said correctly, it's nearly impossible to determine his actual popularity after 1933.

In other news: water is wet!

Yeah. I really need to double check that shit. Makes me look half as foolish as I really am.

i mean when i'm typing in bed trying not to wake anyone up i get it

I was aware that he used legal maneuvering to take control. (From that video I referred to)

And then at a certain point stopped abiding by the very system laws that allowed him to get into position.

Which is very concerning. Because I think many people and many politicians are under the impression that they can keep trump in check with laws.

But he only abides by them when they suit him and disregards them when they don't.

And those who oppose him always stay within the laws.

When we have no laws of enforcement/punishment of the executive branch, then any laws are dismissible by the executive branch when it suits them.

And there is already a long history of presidents doing this. Trump isn't the first. Just the worst.

Our current government system is set to ultimately fail when tested in this way.

It's playing a game where your opponent is allowed to cheat with no penalty and can even change the rules at their whim. But you are bound to the rule book.

Not impossible to still beat but nearly. And unlikely.

I agree, Trump is currently progressing much faster than Hitler did in turning the country into a dictatorship. The lack of a united opposition is concerning from an outside perspective.