Could anyone be worse than Hitler?
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Nowadays, a quick way to get yourself in the news is to compare someone to Hitler. But, prior to Hitler, who was generally accepted to be history’s most evil person?
It’s a complicated question because, as Brian Palmer explains in Slate, “hatred was more local and short-lived before World War II”—meaning people didn’t tend to go around comparing political leaders to Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun. Different regions did have their own favorite—and sometimes unlikely—boogeymen, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
The historical figure who comes the closest is the Egypt’s Pharaoh of Exodus, who refused to let the Hebrew people go even as plagues rained down. Thomas Paine used a Pharaoh comparison in the run-up to the Revolutionary War; abolitionists did so during the Civil War; even Martin Luther King Jr. used Pharaoh references. And speaking of Abraham Lincoln? Some Confederates referred to him as “a modern Pharaoh.”
So if that question was modified and asked today how would you answer?
In the field of Republican presidential candidates who do you think would be the most dangerous to America if elected?
How would you answer? Give it some thought.
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Or just a world of whites
Nobody would come close to Hitler the reason why is that he did not want to just kill Jews he wanted a world of just white blond blue eye people.He would have obliterated all of Asia, Africa, south America, most of north America and most of Europe.
Actually that’s not true. That was Himmler’s dream, and Hitler just went along with it to keep Heinrich happy.
If you’ve read and studied the bible, you know who is worse than Hitler. But that woman hating guy is supposedly omniscient and omnipotent.
I really don’t have an interest in anything that’s in the bible. When I was young and impressionable I suspect I was forced to read parts of it, but now that I’m not so young, I would prefer to read Stephen King.
hard to say who the worst was. Tamerlane was a real asshole.
The kings of ancient Assyria were probably the cruelest in history. That Ashurbanipal was a total jerk.
Perry scares me the most. He strikes me as the one who would whore himself and government to Wall Street the most. He does have good hair though.
Most dangerous candidate? My gut response is Perry, but Cain is still in the running.
Caligula and Tiberius, if not worse than Hitler, are at least equal in barbarity. It’s become too easy to use the term “hitler” to describe the pinnacle of evil when there are so many other figures in history that would suffice just as well.
I frankly consider them all dangerous since if elected the winner would get to pick a court justice and we will really be doomed past my lifetime!
Hear! Hear!