Why Ben Carson's Nazi Analogies Matter

New York Times ^ | 10/20/2015 | Peter Wehner- certified GOPe

[GOPJ]

I'm just curious... how on earth did you wind up here?

[GOPJ]

The German Revolution, which began in the year 1933, also went through a relatively humane phase; however, June 30, 1934 was a flaming warning signal, which was followed by a steep and ineluctable plunge, like the kind described in Greek tragedy, into the hell of totalitarian left-wing tyranny. As with the French Revolution, the way had been paved in this direction from the beginning. The same thing is true of Russia. Just as in France it was the writings of the Encyclopedists, Morelly, Rousseau, Diderot, and Sade, and in Germanic countries, the writings of Haeckel, Chamberlain, and Rosenberg as well as those of Hitler and Goebbels, so in Russia it was the writings of Marx, Tschernyschewsky, Plechanow and Lenin which determined subsequent political development.

Ideas matter... Ann Coulter wrote about the French Revolution some time back and I remember feeling she was the first person to 'get it' on a real level - the level where each individual makes a choice to hand over their control to a mob.

[otness_e]

Just stumbled upon this while looking up the French Revolution, that’s all.

[otness_e]

*Democracy, since I’m against it because of what the French Revolutionaries did, and their ideological successors.

[otness_e]

Yeah, I know. I was just saying that the French Revolutionaries didn’t take away guns or weapons. In fact, that’s the only totalitarian/anarchistic government which actually averted the gun-grabbing.

[otness_e]

Yeah, I know. I was just saying that the French Revolutionaries didn’t take away guns or weapons. In fact, that’s the only totalitarian/anarchistic government which actually averted the gun-grabbing.

[GOPJ]

It was an interesting choice...Waaaaay too much blood lust in that revolution for my taste.