German Streets Descend into Lawlessness

Gatestone Institute ^ | 31/10/16 | Soeren Kern

[kabar]

So when I Google ‘Nazi resurgence in Germany’ , all the articles that pop up are a figment of Google’s imagination?

No they are a product of the MSM Leftist press. Why don't you Google David Duke and the GOP or Donald Trump? What about the resurgence of the KKK or the Nazi Party in America? This is all leftist nonsense.

[Ohioan]

The only people the actual Nazis were to the right of were the actual Communists. Hitler himself acknowledged that he was influenced by Marx, and he clearly adopted Marx's tactic of running against a chosen scape-goat.

For a summary of the extent of the factors that clearly demonstrate the point: The Lies Of Socialism.

The Nazis were not German Patriots, they were extreme Socialists. It has, however, been a Leftist project for over 70 years, to paint patriots in Western lands, as "Nazis." It is a smear, pure & simple.

[dfwgator]

The Germans felt so bad about what they did during the Holocaust, that they decided to import millions of people who hate the Jews even more than the Nazis did.

[dfwgator]

This pronomina is primarily driven by regressive fiscal and economic policies that punish young and middle age folks. Meanwhile, workers are needed to continue economic growth. Sadly, Merkel naively thought Muslims could be assimilated into German culture. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Huge mistak, and sadly irreversible....

They could have accomplished that with Slavs, but Slavs are "untermenschen" to the Germans.

[Eleutheria5]

And let them destroy their culture as they sit passively by. A touching gesture, but for my part, they shouldn’t have. I mean, they really shouldn’t have.

[dfwgator]

If it were only the Germans suffering because of their policies that’s one thing, but they’ve poisoned the rest of Europe because of it.

[Eleutheria5]

I’m not equating a normal nationalistic resistance to the Islamic invasion, including street violence and draconian laws restricting immigration, and forcibly ejecting and repatriating troublemakers. I worry that that sort of nationalism is being aborted and suppressed with cries of “Nazism” by those same Leftists you complain about, and in its place you’ll get the real Nazism, who won’t stop with stopping the Islamicist invaders, and will go too far with them, too.

[kabar]

I worry that that sort of nationalism is being aborted and suppressed with cries of “Nazism” by those same Leftists you complain about, and in its place you’ll get the real Nazism, who won’t stop with stopping the Islamicist invaders, and will go too far with them, too.

I worry about your faulty logic, i.e., reductio ad Hitlerum (lateinisch „Rückführung auf Hitler“) So the Germans are uniquely susceptible to reverting to Nazism? Or can the same thing happen here with American nationalism? Stop playing the Nazi card. We are not fools on FR, with some possible exceptions.

Sorry, but there is not going to be a reversion to Nazism in the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, or the US.

[donozark]

The word I originally used, was RESURGENCE. It has caused you so much angst, permit me to define it, as I used it. "An increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity or occurrence." No one (including me) is suggesting a Nuremberg type rally situation. Rather, signs, images, protests, etc.

And I have neither the need nor desire to Google anything related to David Duke or his ilk. In my younger days, I locked up more than one of his type of person. Garbage then. Garbage now. Some things change. Nazis don't.

[kabar]

How many Nazis are there today? You diminish what the Nazis did by comparing some isolated incidents today. There is no resurgence of Nazism. There is no resurgence of the KKK. There is militant Islam, which is a real threat in today's world.

The more kooks like you pull the Nazi card, the less credibility you have.

[dfwgator]

If they had just called it the “Socialist German Workers Party” things would have turned out much different.

[donozark]

I didn’t “pull the Nazi card.” Are you drunk or just lack reading comprehension?

[Eleutheria5]

“So the Germans are uniquely susceptible to reverting to Nazism? Or can the same thing happen here with American nationalism? Stop playing the Nazi card. We are not fools on FR, with some possible exceptions.”

I didn’t realize the immigration problem only involved Free Republic. If it’s only happening here, well, then, I guess we can be confident in our mutual rationality. But, yes, at the moment the Germans are uniquely susceptible to Hitlerism because they have Merkel making any peaceful, rational assertion of a national identity and the imposition of immigration rules consistent with that identity, impossible, so you get the extremist form, i.e., Hitlerism.

America is less susceptible, because the apparent winner of the Presidential race is Donald Trump, whose stated goal is to “build a wall” and have a moratorium on immigration from Islamonazi countries. He is the rational nationalism personified. Better yet, he’s not intimidated by the irrational, extremist internationalists when they call him a Nazi. They really have hit the jackpot in America.

[kabar]

Your initial post was this: There has been and unfortunate resurgence of ‘Nazism’ in Germany. Always been a few nuts around. But this recent rise seems to be based on the failure of Merkel to deal with this muslim invasion and attendant rise in violence.

Your basic premise is wrong. There has not been an "unfortunate resurgence of 'Nazism' in Germany. The Left always tries to brand anyone who disagrees with them as a neo-Nazi. It is a powerful pejorative/label because the Germans despise the Nazis. The Nazi Party is outlawed in Germany. There is no "resurgence of Nazism."

We have a Nazi Party and the KKK in the US. Does any sane person ascribe the views of these minuscule organizations to most Americans or think that they are even relevant. The members number in the hundreds in a nation of 320 million people.

The Nazi movement is essentially dead never to be relevant again. You are pulling the Nazi card on the German people in the same way the Dems pull the David Duke card on Reps.

In point of fact, Merkel and others have used the Nazi card and the general sense of shame and guilt because of the Holocaust to stifle any nationalistic voice. If you are against importing millions of refugees from alien cultures, you are a bigot and neo-Nazi. The opposition Alternative Party is not comprised of Nazis.

[kabar]

There is zero chance Germany will revert to “Hitlerism.” It is preposterous to even suggest it.

[donozark]

You have your opinion. I have mine. I stand by what I said. I defined the word ‘resurgence’ and the context in which I used it. I,nor anyone on this thread have claimed there are Nuremberg type rallies. Only a ‘resurgence’. And there is.

[kabar]

You have your opinion. I have mine.

Yours is uninformed and ignorant.

[donozark]

Says who.? You? LOL!

[houeto]

Sadly, Merkel naively thought Muslims could be assimilated into German culture.

I will never be made to believe this. This reeks of intentional destruction.

[kabar]

Yes, me who lived four years in Germany, married to a German national for 47 years, and who has visited Germany scores of times. I also spent 28 years as a foreign service officer and lived 14 years in Europe in five different countries. I watch the German news every day. I know what is happening in Germany and I understand the people and culture of Germany.

I reiterate. Your opinion is uninformed.