The March Toward ‘Gleichschaltung’ – Is the U.S. Heading Toward Socialism?

Family Security Matters ^ | January 15, 2010 | Janet Levy

[captjanaway]

In 1933, Hitler began a systematic attempt to eliminate opposition and bring about conformity with the Nazi agenda. Using the policy of Gleichschaltung or “Synchronization,” he consolidated his authority within the Reich bureaucracy and key aspects of German culture and life using propaganda, intimidation, appointments of Party loyalists and new laws and directives. Hitler employed the services of an invasive police force and seized control of schools, labor unions, the military, media, the arts, churches, social service organizations and recreational clubs.

Similarly, the United States is currently undergoing widespread economic and political change under the Obama administration which is using a series of extensive actions and techniques that, but for intent, bear a striking resemblance to steps taken in pre-war Germany. In the space of a year, the administration, which campaigned on a platform of “hope and change” and publicly avowed support for the redistribution of income in the notorious “Joe the Plumber” interchange, has begun sweeping programs utilizing a system of czars, costly spending plans, takeovers of entire industries and a proposed seizure of the healthcare and energy sectors. In this way, the administration has increased the size, power and jurisdiction of the federal government. It has also maintained unprecedented control of the media and the message, encouraged “spontaneous” content from children singing Obama’s praises on the Internet and begun legislation to secure government control over broadband and the Internet.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

"Is the U.S. Heading Toward Socialism?"

Umm...we've been there for awhile...

[wolfcreek]

Fool me twice, shame on ME.

[maine yankee]

Thank you for the post, great article.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I'm surprised Ms.Levy has to ask.

[tsomer]

From Wikipedia:

Gleichschaltung (pronounced [ˈglaɪçʃaltʊŋ], About this sound listen (help·info)), meaning "coordination", "making the same", "bringing into line", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual, and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce. The historian Richard J. Evans offered the term "forcible-coordination" in his most recent work on Nazi Germany.

Good word. Spot on characterization.

Every thing 0 has done has been to consolidate his power.

But I don't think he plans to stay in the White-house for more than 1 term, two at most.

The 0 presidency is really all about building his resume' for the job he really wants: grand potentate of the world.

You can't expect to achieve high office in world politics unless you come from a third-world tin-hat hell-hole.

He's well on his way to transforming this country into that.

(By the way, the pronunciation is pretty much as it's spelled.)

[DTogo]

In a related story, despite recession Americans nearly double their ammunition purchases.

[crazydad]

Well duh!!

[Munz]

I just read this article and was heading straight to the FR to post it.
It is well written and is a blueprint of how things are going now.

Thanks for posting.

[G-Man 1]

AMERICAS ENEMIES;THE DIMOCRAT PARTY and ISLAM. No i diden't spell dimocrat wrong.