:) Have a great 4th FRiend!
Posted on 07/04/2015 8:42:45 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator
One striking theme to come out of this reading was how the Nazis "dumbed down" their citizens by de-emphasizing academic achievement. Instead, they kept their young people focused on sports and on political dogma. Sound familiar?
Any political opponents of Nazism were shouted down in universities and professors who didn't get with the program were shunted aside. Goebbels had complete control of the media and while the outside world laughed at the ridiculous assertions being made in the German media, the German citizens themselves began to believe them.
In 1933, when the Nazis gained power, their heavy-handed tactics towards the Jews were met with scorn and repulsion by many German citizens. However, by 1938, after five years of indoctrination and repression, the Germans simply shrugged their shoulders at the atrocities of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) that November, in which thousands of Jewish synagogues and shops were smashed and set on fire and in which tens of thousands of Jews had their property confiscated by the state and were sent to concentration camps.
By then, the German people were either ignorant or they were too beaten down to speak up. It was Kristallnacht that set the stage for WW2 and the death of tens of millions for that's when the Nazis realized that they had the German people cowed and they could do anything, anything at all from that point on.
90% of the population could not answer these questions correctly? Any eight-year-old kid should score 100% on that quiz!
There is no way I'm moving to DC, BTW.
Have to get back to you on Nazi transformation of German society except to note that their emphasis on sports was a matter of national pride & meant to instill a sense of purpose in the young, totally unlike the mindless celebrity-driven mass entertainment sports of today.
The Nazis promised to free Germany from the malaise of defeat in the Great War, end to reparations, and to restore German preeminence in Europe. No mindless kumbaya or apology tours there.
As for lack of civic awareness in America, this year’s Fourth of July is sad evidence of that.
Ditto.
I’ve been bled out. . . sigh.
Excellent book. The gassing of the mentally defective also sent the Nazis in retreat for a bit.
Here’s a version I created that even low-information Obama supporters would have a fighting chance at passing...
1) What country did the American colonies rebel against?
Turkestan
Bolivia
Antarctica
America
Britain
2) How many of the American Colonies were a part of the revolution?
None
All 57
13
3) What year did the Revolutionary War begin?
The war never occurred
The year Obama was born
The year is unknown
1776
4) What was the main reason that the American Colonies rebelled and fought for their independence?
They wanted their own language
Concerns over global warming
The Colonies opposed British transgenderism
They felt they had outgrown the British Empire and would do better without them
5) What was the name of the group that declared the independence of the United States?
The New Black Panther Party
The Progressive Caucus
The Jive Five
Peter, Paul & Mary
The Constitutional Congress
6) What year did the United States issue the Declaration of Independence?
1969
2011
615 AD
1776
7) Which of the following states was NOT part of the original 13 colonies?
New York
Virgina
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Hawaii
8) Which European country became a major ally to the United States during the Revolutionary War?
Africa
China
Canada
France
9) Who was the first President of the United States?
Vladimir Putin
Barack Hussein Obama
Al Sharpton
George Washington
10) What type of government did the new country of the United States form?
3rd-World Marxist
Homosexual Dictatorship
Militant Transgender Democracy
Republic
I bleed Red White and Blue
:) Have a great 4th FRiend!
The second is when the national elections are held. The selection was "the first Tuesday after a Monday." Written in that manner, it means "any old Monday in November could be selected. The correct phrasing is "the first Tuesday after the first Monday." I count off for bad grammar (but then, that is my job).
The war never occurred
The year Obama was born
The year is unknown
1776
Correct answer: None of the above. It began in 1775. You can look it up.
Thanks. I had thought it started when the Americans officially declared their independence in ‘76 and the British invaded New York. I was well aware of these other events. In fact, I just this AM posted a thread with links to a great PBS documentary series on the war and the events leading up to it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3307707/posts
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From wiki...
“In February 1775 Parliament declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion. Lieutenant General Thomas Gage, the British North American commander-in chief, commanded four regiments of British regulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside was in the hands of the Revolutionaries. On April 14, he received orders to disarm the rebels and arrest their leaders.
On the night of April 18, 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord, Massachusetts. Riders including Paul Revere alerted the countryside, and when British troops entered Lexington on the morning of April 19, they found 77 Minutemen formed up on the village green. Shots were exchanged, killing several Minutemen. The British moved on to Concord, where a detachment of three companies was engaged and routed at the North Bridge by a force of 500 minutemen. As the British retreated back to Boston, thousands of militiamen attacked them along the roads, inflicting many casualties before timely British reinforcements prevented a total disaster. With the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the war had begun.[33]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#Outbreak_of_the_War_1775.E2.80.9376
The distinction is really simpler. The only stable forms of government throughout history are oligarchies (rule of the elite) and republics (rule of law). The other two (democracy, rule of the mob) and anarchy (chaos) are unstable and result in dictatorship, which is simply oligarchy with a visible strong man.
Thanks. That does simplify things.
It says I need to go to D.C. and personally provide the Bum’s Rush to the Traitor in the White House.
And, the term for a Senator is now until they no longer want the job (a la Reid).
Ditto!
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