INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 628 Amsterdam, November 12th, 2016 TRUMP AND HITLER: AN INTEGRATIVE PERSPECTIVE - ELLIOT BENJAMIN I don't want to live in a country where the likes of Donald Trump is my president. I felt this way when George Bush was elected as my president—particularly for his second term in 2004, but I feel this way much more intensely now. I am seriously thinking about relocating to Canada, as many Americans are also now seriously thinking about. And I know that what is making this especially more personally intense for me than the mere fact of all the above concerns and apprehensions about Trump that I have listed, coupled with the fact that we will now be having both American houses in congress controlled by Republicans, and a supreme court justice appointed by Trump, is this association of Trump with Hitler. But I am trying to see both sides of this association—i.e., can it be justified, if it is the case, that Trump was influenced by reading Hitler's descriptions of his hatred for the Jews and how he was able to galvanize multitudes of Nazi followers that resulted in the horrors of the holocaust? However, even if it is the case that Trump was influenced in this way, is it any different from a historian studying Hitler's books to learn about what actually transpired in Nazi Germany? But then again, if the accounts about Trump keeping Hitler's book of speeches by his bedside are accurate, this appears to me to signify an “admiration” of Hitler by Trump, and if this is the case, then moving to Canada is looking more and more like a real possibility to me. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin86.html