re: #32 BigPapa

In America, he’s not just supported by ‘some nutz.’ They are nutty but should not be dismissed as some small minority.

That’s why the economy concerns me. They are a minority, unless the economy goes bad.

His ties to Israel raise the question: is he merely sympathetic to the plight of Israel, or does he have an issue with Arabs/Islam founded some time ago, or both? The film did not answer that but it’s worth considering.

Trust me on this. I know something about propaganda and how it relates to hatred. You can’t see it coming unless you know what to look for, and it hits in a sudden way. In this case, it begins to affect you by adjusting your curiosity. If you want to fight racism, pay attention to the questions that people ask. It doesn’t mean you’re dealing with a racist, it just means that the neurolinguistic programming tools ( the link is to the nicey nice definition. It can help people. It has helped lots of people, but it can and has been used for evil. It still is used for evil. If therapists aren’t using it, then it’s all being used for evil. Goebbels figured it out, and used it. His playbook is still being applied.) used to create racism are at work. That’s how normal people turned into Nazis and turned a blind eye to their culture. The stuff is really effective.

If you want we can talk about this another day. The lessons of the Holocaust were mentioned several times in the film. Mostly, people focus on Hitler. I don’t. I focus on the next door neighbor who heard their friends being rounded up to go to a camp and let the kitchen knives sit in the drawer. Or the good friend who one day begins wearing a swastika lapel pin. They, all of them, Jews and non-Jews did not see it coming.

Regrding Israel, like the little Israeli woman said, being in Israel can effect people. But we also know that Wilders is a very closed person—so what goes on inside of Wilders stays inside of Wilders. When a person is that closed off, all you get is what they let out. There is no way to know where it came from, and it doesn’t matter. People still spend hours trying to figure out how Hitler became Hitler. They’ll never know, and it doesn’t matter. He just showed up one day and you had to deal with it. There was no fixing Hitler, no understanding Hitler. There was only whether or not you were going to fight Hitler.

Yes, knowing which US politicians support him would be a good idea.

One interesting thing about the film, is when it was pointed out that there was a time when he was politically isolated. Then people began coming to him. Like I said above, focus on the normal people.