Posted on 04/13/2015 5:45:19 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Yes. Unfortunately, though, the false characterization has become the accepted idea, even among our beloved conservative friends.
That’s why I call it out every time I see it in print or hear it spoken. I will not let it pass uncorrected.
And I love Dan Greenfield.
Oh yes. I have heard of him!
Exactly, the Communists were able to take advantage of what Hitler did and threw around the term “Fascist” to condemn anyone who didn’t agree with them.
It’s why I say, “The only thing worse than a Fascist, is an Anti-Fascist.”
It is good to see us digging into the roots of the left. There can be no question but that the left is elitist tyranny. Their outrageous attempts to portray free men and women as tyrannical fail utterly.
Obama has given us the best and clearest understanding of the horror of leftist government. His witless ravings and petulant actions have destroyed many of the bulwarks that have protected us from the evils of progressive government.
The masks are off and the evil of absolute statist authority is manifest for anyone with an open mind to see and reel in horror.
The madness that has marked the past 60 years or more must end if we are to survive as a culture of manifest destiny.
The incidence of homosexuality probably really is increasing as it becomes the key to power and wealth in the society. Men are naturally omnisexual when there are no societal controls.
There is a tendency on the left to treat this as a definitional matter: we're not the Nazis and so we must be everything the Nazis weren't. That position fails in the face of fact, and so fact must be restated until it no longer has the power of denial.
Grass was, more or less of his own volition, a member of the Waffen SS. That, in the face of fact, had to be restated until the sting was gone, and that is precisely what the work that made him famous accomplished. He was Oskar in The Tin Drum, a little fellow who refused to grow, possessed of superhuman powers and divorced entirely by circumstance of any guilt over the progress of the war. Hence Grass himself.
There was, of course, the comfort - the Europeans reached it long before it washed ashore the United States like a putrid, greasy oil slick - the moral refuge of judgmental Leftism, of the notion that its adherents were above it all, that they could sit serene on their cloudy throne and pass judgment on mere mortals below. It is one of the more cloying characteristics of the Left and is magnified in number. After a certain critical mass, it is nearly unassailable.
But not forever, for sooner or later they all are found out: the SA did consist both of fascist and communist street fighters, after all, and the only consistency was in the identity of their target, the Jews. With Grass's passing goes a generation that found Jew-hatred a comfortable refuge for its own inadequacies, secure in the knowledge that the generation to follow was already infected with that same disease.
Thanks for the ping.
Bump. This is new, fresh, brilliant writing.
One little quibble, if I may...
Nazism is NOT “The right”. “Nazi” is short for National SOCIALIST. The absolute right would be no government at all.
Unfortunately, the “left” has labeled the Nazis as “Right Wing” and then lump all of us conservatives in with them.
Otherwise, Dan hits it out of the park, as usual!
The criticism is only valid if one reads it paragraph by paragraph and doesn't make each a part of the whole.
He shortly after states:
"The answer to the conundrum and the unspoken thing that Gunter Grass dared not speak of may lie in a letter from the leader of another German leftist terrorist cell,..."
He used the march right/march left bit to tell us that they made two mistakes - one by thinking that they should have been further Left and two that they only saw the two choices when not marching was also a viable choice.
Greenfield is under no allusion that the Nazis were/are anything but left-wing entities.
Note that, despite MSFT practice to the contrary, it is Hyper Text Markup Language!
I cannot find the difference. Splain this to me, please.
Agreed.
Dan is under no Illusions whatsoever.
I read his articles every day, and enjoy his insights.
Ahhhh...Dennis Prager. I love him too! :-)
It is indeed.
I LOVE this guy!
Got it! The l in the html did not post in the top link. Obviously I “botched the link.” Thanks for the heads up.
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