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As a student of History, I have studied dictators who have ruled over the millennia usually to the detriment of their citizens. Two twentieth Century dictators who died before most of today’s Americans were born are Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The Germans and the Italians were extremely adept at gaining people’s confidence and loyalty; they both were originally elected and put their loyalist followers into offices that would control the people.
Hitler unlike Mussolini used his first group of followers to harass the German Jews who he had designated as the reason the Axis Powers lost World War One and caused thousands of percent inflation. When the Brown Shirts became a political detriment he had his new follower’s, the Black Shirts, kill off the leaders of the original group. He bought the leaders of the new group with important government posts and the industrialists with special advantages and contracts. He got rid of or put in meaningless duties generals who he thought wouldn’t blindly obey his. The other officers and all men in uniform swore loyalty to him and him alone.
The majority of Germans were so duped into believing Hitler took complete control of all three branches of the government. He put loyalists in the courts, in the legislature, and in the federal police and the newly created the Gestapo. Hitler had anyone creating problems killed or put into concentration camps.
Vladimir Putin has done exactly the same thing in this century. Putin though was trained by the KGB on how to manipulate people and how to get narcissists and egoists to do as KGB agents want.
Can you think if anyone who is following Hitler’s methods today? Who will have control of all three branches and majority of the State Governments?? Look up what it takes to eliminate the XXII Amendment!
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