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Originally Posted by wolf
You missed the obligatory mention of Hitler, but other than that, yeah, I think you covered it, you liberal weenie.
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The irony of Nazi Germany: people who supported Hitler thought themselves just as moral as Americans today who promote fear of mythical enemies, need for more weapons, let others be massacred (ie in schools) and do nothing, justify their actions with reasoning such as the world does not understand us and we must save them, disparage the intelligent (centrists), justify everything using a political agenda (see posts from TheMercenary for similar propaganda examples), suspend constitutional provisions that would only interfere with their political agenda, drive science from the country, subvert the judiciary, and even justify acts such as torture, secret imprisonment, and hatred of 'inferiors'.
All this was ongoing in 1930s Germany as it is today. No one in Germany considered it a threat. This deja vue attitude of murder in VA, contempt for the American soldier justified by nationalism, a righteous demand that Peter Jennings wear an American flag on his jacket and obtain American citizenship, and acceptance attitude towards torture; these were the same early 1930s attitudes in Germany by a people who also considered themselves so moral and good. By a people who did not even question when their leader "Pearl Harbored" other sovereign nations - even praised him for doing so.
What is the largest immigrant composition of America? Germans. And yet somehow Nazism cannot happen in America. "Where are your papers?" Same law to be imposed on all Americans complete with a required redesign of state driver's licenses so that everyone will have and must carry "papers".
Parallels do exist between today's extremist Republicans and early 1930s Nazis. Complete with both people insisting they are the righteous and superior ones.