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The gun-control histrionic; 'sugary' drink-size fixated and portion-restriction minded; health insurance individual-mandate law championing; Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A blocking progressive-left wants to refer to freedom and liberty as "authoritarian."
Telling woman what they are allowed to do with their bodies and trying to control their reproductive decisions; telling people who they are allowed to sleep with; forcing biblical dictates created by mere men upon society; military supremacy; national security obsession; suppression of labor power;identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause; distrust of those that are different; invasion of sovereign countries.
"All the Tea Party represents is repackaged fascism. The message is the same: real Americans instead of real Germans and familiar enemies, like Muslims instead of Jews (they share a hatred of gays); out-of-control paranoia and conspiracy theories like stabs in the back and betrayal; the view of women (real American – aka white women) as breeders of a master race; and a mission from God to restore the nation’s greatness."
"Fascism is the ultimate manifestation of social change and moral revolution, and glorifies nationalism. Sound familiar? It should. Republicans are all about culture wars and preach morality and how great America is. Fascists, like Republicans today, reject democracy and liberalism. Many Republicans called for violently overthrowing the government if the 2010 midterm elections didn’t go their way and have viciously attacked liberalism. Fascists also reject internationalism and pacifism and support militarism and war."
"Anyone who has studied Hitler’s rise to power knows he was no socialist. He was an opportunist, even a political schizophrenic. Which served him well, because in a Weimar Republic struggling – and failing catastrophically – to come to terms with military humiliation, a crisis of national identity and an economic implosion, ideology was a moveable feast. Indeed, it was so moveable, it opened the door to Hitler’s rise to power. “Who cares what he thinks?” Germany said to herself. “He’ll do for now.”
Pin the ideology on the Führer is a fun game. Actually, it’s quite a tasteless game. But we can all play it. “The government will not protect the economic interests of the German people by the circuitous method of an economic bureaucracy to be organised by the state, but by the utmost furtherance of private initiative and by the recognition of the rights of property,” Hitler told the Reichstag in 1933. Not exactly the words of a man about to break into a rendition of “The Red Flag”.
But does it matter? Yes, it does, actually. Hitler wasn’t a socialist, nor was he a conservative. He was a political mutation. And to try to place him anywhere on the conventional political spectrum is not just to abuse history but to play a dangerous game with the future.
Didn't the nazis confiscate firearms from the German public?
No. The German public had been disarmed to an extreme degree after 1918, and each successive modification to German weapons laws made it easier, not harder, for the common German to acquire a firearm. Then again, most people in interbellum Germany didn't really have the spending power for private firearms.
Of course, German occupying forces - like all occupying armies ever - did everything they could to round up firearms.
“[My task is to] convert the German volk to socialism without simply killing off the old individualists” -Adolph Hitler
“The government will not protect the economic interests of the German people by the circuitous method of an economic bureaucracy to be organised by the state, but by the utmost furtherance of private initiative and by the recognition of the rights of property,” Hitler told the Reichstag in 1933.
No. The German public had been disarmed to an extreme degree after 1918, and each successive modification to German weapons laws made it easier, not harder, for the common German to acquire a firearm. Then again, most people in interbellum Germany didn't really have the spending power for private firearms.
Of course, German occupying forces - like all occupying armies ever - did everything they could to round up firearms.
So did the OP get what they were looking for? Democrats think Hitler is definitely the GOP and the GOP thinks maybe not. This thread is both predictable and tasteless.
So did the OP get what they were looking for? Democrats think Hitler is definitely the GOP and the GOP thinks maybe not. This thread is both predictable and tasteless.
"Anyone who has studied Hitler’s rise to power knows he was no socialist. He was an opportunist, even a political schizophrenic.
I don't see a contradiction between the words socialist, opportunist and schizophrenic. In fact, opportunist and schizophrenic is an integral part of being a socialist.
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“The government will not protect the economic interests of the German people by the circuitous method of an economic bureaucracy to be organised by the state, but by the utmost furtherance of private initiative and by the recognition of the rights of property,” Hitler told the Reichstag in 1933.
I don't judge politicians by what they say to get power, but by what they do after gaining power. Senator Obama, another socialist, also said things that could be interpreted as conservative/libertarian. His actions as President Obama were anything but.
Hitler was the head of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - National Socialist German Workers Party.
Who scribbles "Socialist" and "Workers Party" on the doorbell expecting to attract anybody other than the progressive left to the porch?
A right wing conservative would no more want to be remotely near a gathering of Sozialisten, than the progressive left would want anything to do with a Tee-Partei. Who are chastened, embarrassed leftists trying to fool?
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