which past dictator is Bush most similar to?

[pres2032]

This has probably been done before, but I think it's useful, to perhaps better understand what we're up against.

I personally think he more resembles Mao Zedong of China for the cult of personality he created, the alienation of intellectuals (labeled liberal elitists now, rightists under Mao), and the general beleif that America is superior and of course his ideology is the greatest of all.


explain your answers.

[whalerider55]

1. Adenoid Hynkel

The GREAT Dictator

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[troubleinwinter]

7. Chimp has never been elected.

[BillZBubb]

9. So, a lot of people don't believe Bush* was elected.

Anyway a lot of dictators have used "elections" as a pretext for a power grab. Bush* is no exception.

[UdoKier]

5. I don't see how anyone could say Hitler.

Hitler served as a soldier in the war. He dragged himself up from poverty and obscurity through sheer will. He was a brilliant propagandist and strategist in many ways.

Bush has had EVERYTHING given to him, from day one. Even now he lets others do the thinking and the governing.

Bush is neither as bad as Hitler, nor as accomplished.

[snippy]

27. Karl Rove has compared Bush to Hitler.

In fact, Rove was the first person to do so. Of course Rove did it in an admiring and complimentary way.

[PapaJoe]

6. That is the One I thot of!

I cannot think of any Leader more comical and farcical in any work of fiction than this real life Bozo.

[steely]

33. My thoughts exactly - I could think of no one...

'cept maybe his fat-head father, but the smirkster seems more unstable - like from a scary book or movie.

Hey - and Welcome to DU!!

[genius]

26. He came to power the same way as Hitler -Reichstag

We'd be better off with Mussolini

[UdoKier]

2. Not Mao. Mao was a patriot who fought for his country.

I said Caligula, since he best represents the fantasy world Bush lives inside of. Caligula had his orgies, Bush has drugs and golf, but it's the same thing - neither of them really give a damn about the country they are supposed to be governing, and let others do the iron fist stuff.

[Benhurst]

13. And Caligula was not elected. He got his position because of

his family.

[lightbulb]

4. Other: King George III

All kings are inherently dictators, too.

[damntexdem]

8. History doesn't repeat exactly.

I put Stalin on the basis of purges of higher military, & now of intelligence services.

[sportndandy]

10. Alexander the Great

Conquered the world despite questions of his sexual orientation (not that there would be anything wrong with that). Of course Alexander was a great leader, not a pawn for the corporate interests.

[StClone]

11. King Of Reptiles aka T-Rex

Big, extinct with a permanent smirk on his face.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Why no Banana Republicans represented in this survey?

I'm thinking Noreiga....

[pres2032]

17. thought about it

but too many to name and only 10 spots for the poll. stuck to the very big and dead names.

[ArkDem]

14. Who is this Moussolini fellow?

[pres2032]

16. facist dictator of Italy from 193?-1944

Invaded Eithiopia for pretty much $hits and giggles

[steely]

34. wasn't he more or less a second rate suck up to Adolf?

In this regard, I discounted the connection to *, but he was full of himself (only to be hung out of sheer hatred (by his toes?)).

(His toes didn't hang him, the people..., well you get it) ;-)

[ArkDem]

42. Oh, you mean Benito Mussolini.

[BillZBubb]

15. Definitely Mussolini

Bush* mirrors the classic Italian fascist. He's not an outright mass murderer like Stalin or Hitler, or even Mao. He is a pompous personal failure who struts around and is more than willing to use the military to impose his will on defenseless countries.

His economic and social policies also closely mimic those of Il Duce. This is by far the best match.

[signmike]

22. Perhaps one day there will be photos

of Bush and Rice at a gas station, for sale on eBay

re: Il Duce

[BillZBubb]

30. Dude, I won't go there---someone may be listening!

Condoliar as Clara Petacci--I like that.

What did Patrick Henry say: "...may he profit from their example!"

[mitchum]

41. I'll take two!

[Thoth]

25. 2nd that and wasn't it Mussolini who said...

"fascism is more properly called corporatism, since it's the union of state and corporate power"

[BillZBubb]

31. That's the one!

Busholini is a firm believer in that union.

[LakeCohoon]

45. Quoting Mussolini...

In a 1934 interview with Newsweek, Benito Mussolini said that he greatly admired the American president because, like himself, Franklin Roosevelt was a "social Fascist."

Never trust a real fascist.

[yardwork]

37. chimp has reminded me of Mussolini for several years....

I think it is the body language and facial smirk, in particular. Not to mention the startling parallels in behavior.

After a while the Italian people caught on to the fraud.

[Seabiscuit]

47. Ditto. Il Duce hands down. Strutting, smirking halfwit egomaniacs

in bed with the corrupt industries of their times.

[UdoKier]

18. By the way, it's "similar to" not "similar too"

nt

[leyton]

19. Sauron (Mordor). n/t

[buckettgirl]

20. Frodo failed, bush has the ring n/t

[Carolab]

21. Khomeini

because of the theocracy angle

[mitchum]

23. Easily Franco, because bush also uses pulpit-dwelling conmen...

to further his fascist agenda.
May he soon be joining Franco in hell.

[indigobusiness]

24. Il Duce

Hands down.



Mussolini: il duce. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini

http://library.thinkquest.org/19592/Persons/mussolin.htm?tqskip1=1

http://www.ilduce.net/

[essarhaddon]

28. Oh come on, Alexander the Great?

Who voted that? Alexander was a brave soldier, who didn't avoid fighting bloody battles and never dodged any draft. Plus, he was FABulous.

[okasha]

35. Alex was also

one of the best-educated men of his day, certainly the best-educated head of state, and he actively supported research and science. His army gathered samples of local flora and fauna wherever they went and sent the materials back to Aristotle.

No resemblance to Bush there!

[Seabiscuit]

46. How about Alexander the Grape?

[SOS]

29. The neocons are great admirers

of the Italian Fascist Party.
Therefore a vote for Mussolini.

[Minstrel Boy]

32. Baby Doc Duvalier

You know; Poppy Doc's little boy.

[malmapus]

36. Moussolini had the trains run on time, Dubyah couldn't even do that

...

[JI7]

38. not exactly a past dictator but Bush always reminded me of Osama Bin Laden

[Swamp Rat]

39. Dumbya is too stoopid to compare him to Caligula et al.

Even Nero could play a fiddle. He's more like King George III's idiot son.

[DivinBreuvage]

40. How about any of the Americans who from day one of our founding embraced

racism, imperialism, and/or plutocracy over a genuine democratic republic. I know it's sexier to get all worked up about Hitler and Stalin and Nero and whatnot, but the fact of the matter is that Bush is in essence no different from any of the other rich white American guys who were behind the Alien and Sedition Acts, Slave State Secession, or the murder of strikers -- long before Hitler or Stalin troubled their households with their infant squalls.

But, of course, Hitler makes people feel all tingly, while an Edmund Ruffin or an A. Mitchell Palmer falls kind of flat.

[lumpy]

43. Nero

Famous for fiddling while Rome burned. Spent money wildly. Not much between the eyebrows. Generally an irresponsible clutz with a stunted conscience.

[Technowitch]

44. Moussolini

[Stand and Fight]

48. Mussolini

Bush has all of his arrogance, all of his pompous self-righteousness. If any of you ever get a chance, take a look at old footage of Benito and you'll be amazed by the similarities. I don't speak a word of Italian, but even without reading translations you can tell the guy is a first-class schmuck. Same can be said for the Bush. Both are more comical figures, mere caricatures, than they are leaders, but unfortunately for the people who live under their rule they're dangerous megalomaniacs.

But hey, at least in the end the Italians got rid of theirMussolini... Says a lot about the lazy thoughtless pricks in this country.

The idiots here re-elected their's at the urging of God and his hell-fire, a fear of being deemed un-American, and after having brought Bush's lie that you shouldn't change horses midstream. Plus let's not even factor in the stolen election. The people who are complacent and apathetic about the stolen election are just as bad as those who voted for the bastard Bush because they won't stand and fight against his brand of freedom, dangerous despotism boarding on the blatantly insane. Yaw--hooo!!!