Posted on 08/18/2026 4:05:25 AM PDT by Libloather
Don’t believe the Democratic National Committee’s official storyline: The DNC’s decision to make South Carolina the first Democratic presidential primary in 2028 isn’t about introducing more racial diversity into the early contests.
It’s actually about keeping power in the hands of the party establishment — the people who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, and who are likely to wind up supporting Kamala Harris in 2028.
The fix is in.
South Carolina was the establishment’s firewall against Bernie Sanders’ left-wing insurgency twice over.
In 2016, Sanders nearly beat Hillary Clinton in the first caucus, in Iowa, and went on to defeat her in the New Hampshire primary.
Four years later, there was a brief moment when Sanders looked like the frontrunner — until he got clobbered by Joe Biden in South Carolina.
It’s true that the black voters who make South Carolina’s primaries more racially diverse than the contests in Iowa or New Hampshire are also less politically radical.
So it’s easy for the DNC to say it’s not trying to choke off support for the socialist wing of the party; it’s just giving black voters more of a say.
The Democratic Socialists of America, the left fringe of the party, is disproportionately white — even its New York City chapter is 60% white, according to DSA’s own membership polling.
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Hindenburg despised Hitler from the beginning, but thought he wasn’t a long-term threat....Ooops!
Ebert tried to create a liberal socialist regime (though Ebert's brand of socialism was probably closer to Willi Brandt than to Stalin or Mao), Hindenburg, von Schleicher etc basically wanted to recreate something a close to a pre-Weimar government as possible, albeit minus Kaiser Wilhelm.
You are right with your posts, especially about Hindenburg (Prince Wilhelm, the grandson, would have been the candidate of choice for monarchists in those days). I just would like to comment a little on your statement that Hitler‘s aims were clearly stated in his book.
I have not read it (it was banned until recently over here), but it was never taken seriously by many. I think, when Hitler penned it in 1924, he himself didn’t reckon with his becoming powerful ever, let alone becoming an almighty tyrant.
Otherwise, he would never have so frankly outlined all of his aims.
The book was considered the work of an utter crank by most. Sadly, today we know how mistaken people were…
P.S.: By the way, the work Risiko Deutschland i.e. „Germany, the risk“ - I don’t know whether it has ever been translated - by the accursed greenslime Trotskyite Joschka Fischer, which he penned before becoming a successful politician, also was not taken seriously.
Today, we know that, in it, he outlined all the policies which his party implemented, and which commieb.tch Merkel continued (although she belonged to another party).
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes, as Mark Twain put it so well.
Wouldn’t have Kaiser Wilhelm’s grandson have been a very young child in 1933? It would have required a Regent at the very least.
Actually, Prince Wilhelm, the eldest son of Wilhelm II‘s eldest son (they all had the same Christian name) was born in 1906 - on the Fourth of July, amusingly.
He was described as an intelligent and warm-hearted man, as well as an accomplished athlete- and the fact that he was a good orator would have helped him, too, just as the fact that he was rather easy on the eyes.
Probably he would have needed to forsake his marriage to Dorothea von Salviati (who was not of royal blood but of petty noble heritage), as, in those days, members of ruling houses were supposed to marry among themselves only.
His by one year younger brother, Prince Louis Ferdinand, might have been an excellent adviser - he was the intellectual in the family, with a doctorate in economics - and, if necessary, a good surrogate, too.
At least, his wife, Grand Princess Kira, was a cousin once removed of the last Czar of Russia 🙂
Prince Wilhelm was very popular among the people, too, although he didn’t ever hold any official position. When he was killed in action in France in 1940, a hundred thousand people followed his casket in Berlin. Hitler then forbade any members of the former Ruling Houses to serve in the military, for he was still afraid of monarchist sentiments within Germany.
I had him confused with Prince Wilhelm Karl, who actually died fairly recently - in the last 20 years or so - and who must have been a young child early 1930s.
yes, Prince Wilhelm Karl lived from 1922 to 2007.
He was a cousin of Princes Wilhelm, the pretender, and Louis Ferdinand. But his father was Prince Oskar, the last Emperor‘s fifth son - that’s why Wilhelm Karl was so much younger than his cousins 🙂
I also had a cousin who was twenty years my junior…
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