Donald Trump is using the same propaganda as Nazi officials to dehumanize those against him and other persecuted enemies of his party as vermin.

He has also expressed a desire for the government to inflict more violence on its enemies.

He is looking to take apart our constitution. A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations. Politics in a dictatorship are controlled by a dictator, and they are facilitated through an inner circle of elites that includes advisers, generals, and other high-ranking officials.

The dictator maintains control by influencing and appeasing the inner circle and repressing any opposition, which may include rival political parties, armed resistance, or disloyal members of the dictator's inner circle. Dictatorships can be formed by a military coup that overthrows the previous government through force or they can be formed by a self-coup in which elected leaders make their rule permanent.

Then you have totalitarianism. Often regarded as the most extreme form of authoritarianism, totalitarianism is generally identified by dictatorial centralized rule dedicated to controlling all public and private aspects of individual life, to the benefit of the state, through coercion, intimidation, and repression. Totalitarian states are typically ruled by autocrats or dictators who demand unquestioned loyalty and control public opinion through propaganda distributed via government-controlled media.

Fascism is a much older political ideology than totalitarianism. A more extreme rightwing authoritarian concept, fascism demands absolute and uncompromising loyalty to the nation or predominant race. Fascists seek to instill a superiority complex and feelings of fear among the citizens against perceived enemies of the race or the nation. The entire population is urged to stand behind the fascist leaders to either protect the superior identity of the population or to defeat the enemy as perceived by the leaders and their followers.

Walk a Mile in My shoes is an open discussion trying to bring the world together by understanding each other. We want to walk a mile in your shoes and hope you can walk a mile in our shoes. I agree that a mile is a long walk but maybe we can learn to love instead of hate.

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