Students rank Trump as worse than Hitler and Stalin

I know there are a lot of people out there that really don't like Trump and since he won in 2016 a number of terms have arisen. TDS was one of them and this stands for Trump Derangement Syndrome.

TDS can be defined as " criticism of, or negative reactions to United States President Donald Trump that are alleged to be irrational and have little regard towards Trump's actual positions or actions taken."

I am pretty indifferent to who is the President of the United States as every single one of them preaches "change this, change that, promise this, promise that" and nothing really ever changes - at least it hasn't in my lifetime. I did not vote for Trump. I have thrown my vote away on candidates I actually believe in rather than playing the "this person is the least bad of the mainstream candidates so i will vote for them" game.

This isn't about me though. This is about a test that Prager U did on California campus that asked random strangers to rank famous people throughout history in terms of "best" to "worst."

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They had a list of well-known people throughout history and the people were as follows: Abraham Lincoln, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Donald Trump, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Jesus. The pictures did not have names on them, they were merely images. The students were then asked to arrange these pictures from in order of how good or bad they think the person in the picture is.

Now, when you go to a University, especially a University in California, it should come as zero surprise that Trump isn't going to be very popular but there were a few things that i found very shocking.

• The very first group ranked Obama as the "best" and Trump as the worst... when asked why they ranked Obama as the best, the student responded "because he is black." I am sure MLK would be extremely proud.
• Many of the students didn't recognize Stalin's face and even once they were told his name, they had no idea who that was. How the hell do you get into college while never having heard of Joseph Stalin?
• One student didn't recognize Hitler
• When a second group ranked Trump as "worse than Hitler or Stalin" the presenter asked something along the lines of "What is it that Trump has done that is worse than the systematic execution of 6 million Jews?" Their response: We haven't yet seen the damage that Trump has done but it will be worse....

You can see the five minute video here:

_{from the official Prager U channel}

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Now I understand that politics are really important (to some people) to argue about, especially now. I also have a great many friends that really really hate Donald Trump - this is understood - you only have to look at FB for a little while to figure that out. What I feel personally is irrelevant and is not the point of writing this. My point is that i find it to be intellectually dishonest with perhaps a bit of institutional brainwashing mixed in for people to fully believe that a current president that they are unhappy with could possibly be ranked worse than two of the greatest ethnic cleansers of all time.

What is going on here? I know that Prager U could have edited the video to intentionally look for the dumbest people they could find as this is a common tactic used by both the left and the right when trying to identify "idiots" with different political ideals. It is also no secret that Prager U is a very conservative leaning group.

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There are other videos out there where the reporter goes to liberal rallies (or the exact opposite) and then reads them a quote by Trump but tells them that it was said by Barack Obama and the people almost always say they "think it is a good idea." When he later tells them that it was actually a Trump quote the look on these people's faces is just priceless.

There you have it in a shell: I think that groupthink and identity-politics have taken over and no one really even thinks about what is being said to them before they make a choice. The "Orange Man Bad "or on the flip side the "God Emperor Trump" people can't really be trusted to make an informed decision, can they? Well their vote counts just as much as mine does!

I get it; a lot of people really don't like Trump the same as whoever lost the past election really didn't like whoever won that one. It will be that way in 2020 and 2024 etc Ad infinitum. I just found it to be a bit shocking that college students can have such a high level of hatred for this man that they believe they are justified in stating that he is worse than what most people agree are some of the most profoundly villainous individuals of the past 100 years.

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For me, anytime that someone disagrees with everything or agrees with everything a particular politician does I immediately suspect them of not actually thinking for themselves. It is possible you know, to actually believe some decisions are good ones while others are not... i suppose this is a benefit (for me) of having not bought into the whole 2-party system that dominates US politics. The party I tend to vote for never wins and to be honest I don't think they ever will.

What do you think? Do you think that it is justified to suggest that Trump is the worst on this list? I'm not gonna argue with you, but i would love to see how anyone can justify this line of thinking because the students in the video certainly didn't do a very good job of it.