TOS literally had an episode with literal Nazis.
This is literally the invocation of Godwin's Law
The TOS episode was very definitely a sermon.
It was. But it was still allegorical. And therein lay its power to speak to everyone. This is a comment numerous writers, production staff and critics have raised over decades - the power of Trek to get messages across by depersonalising it *just enough* from those being criticised.
Yet all the furious fans crying moDeRN tREk iS toO wOkE show that clearly, not everyone is getting the message.
Or maybe, we prefer not being beaten around the head with the message? Often it isn't what you say, so much as how you say it that's the problem.
That's blaming the other side for one's own vote. No, that's not what got Trump elected; that's just a post-hoc justification.
Actually not. I spent five days in Washington around Trump's inauguration, out of sheer desire to comprehend what was going on (as a Brit far removed).
The most overriding message I took away, particularly from speaking to moderate Republicans who had nonetheless swung under him: we got sick of being shouted at, preached at, scorned, so we sent someone back to Washington to go hit the other side back even harder. I have to say, it was a huge learning experience (that and the views of people on the International Women's Protest the next day) and it put me in mind of Aesop's fable of the sun and wind: forcing your agenda ultimately fails, persuasion and encouragement ultimately works.
THAT is the fallacy of using a bigger stick. When you villify "the other side", you hit two types of people: people who don't care what you think (and so your shouting is wasted), and people who are willing to listen, but get hardened when they're called names and yelled at. Bigger stick mentality is EXACTLY what went on there. Let's hope we get a few more uniters in power in more countries.
at least it makes them angry enough to crawl out from under their rocks and protest.
And thus, the cycle continued...
