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Could ordinary Americans embrace socialism?
American Thinker ^ | 23 Mar, 2021 | Robin Itzler

Posted on 03/23/2021 5:04:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Watching images of a bustling Berlin in 1927, and realizing how quickly it embraced National Socialism, is a reminder that this can happen anywhere.

SNIP

Could everyday ordinary Americans, just as easily, or eventually, embrace socialism? One would be naive to dismiss the possibility given the results of many respected polls and especially those taken of young Americans.

Had the German signage been hidden, viewers might have thought it was 1927 London, Paris, or Manhattan. Just another lively metropolis with people going about their ordinary lives. Traveling to work on trains or buses, eating in restaurants, delivering packages by horse-drawn carts, taking children to playgrounds, visiting the city zoo, sitting and talking with friends, walking down streets, cleaning or sweeping in front of homes, shopping in stores filled with the latest clothes and furniture … everyday ordinary people leading everyday ordinary lives on a very ordinary day.

Did some of those everyday ordinary people shown in the film paint “Juden” on store windows or beat Jews while Germans shouted their approval and police stood idly by watching the cruelty? Did some of those same lips that smiled in the film’s festive restaurant scenes also smile when Jews were forced to clean dirty streets using toothbrushes?

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KEYWORDS: communism
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

-—— Hitler made the Jews a scapegoat.——

I read recently that only half of the people killed in the camps were Jews.


21 posted on 03/23/2021 5:38:32 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: MtnClimber

> Could ordinary Americans embrace socialism? <

Well, sure. All the socialists need to do is call it by another name (“progressive democracy” works) and then introduce it gradually.

It’s sort of like the federal income tax. No ordinary American in 1920 would have accepted the high rates we have today. Yet here we are.


22 posted on 03/23/2021 5:46:44 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: MtnClimber

In my view, 2 conditions for socialism : homogeneous racial makeup and high average IQ.

Why? Because these conditions would give society uniform moral base and working ethics. With that and high IQ, the output of their work is plenty enough to set up welfare for themselves. In the event of not working, they can quickly reform or abort socialism on dime

On the other hand, having so diverse racial group and scattered moral and ethics and large portion of low IQ, America’s socialism is simply redistribution of working people’s wealth. Once in socialism, no way to return because many of them would refuse to return due to racial problem

Another example is China, which has relatively racially homogeneous society and people is most hard working.


23 posted on 03/23/2021 6:06:21 AM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Based on JEALOUSY and GREED.....and DUMBNESS!!


24 posted on 03/23/2021 6:25:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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bump


25 posted on 03/23/2021 6:26:06 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: MtnClimber

parasites can


26 posted on 03/23/2021 6:28:48 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Candor7
I can embrace socialism in a death grip. I might even through in a bullet or two.

After looking at your FR profile, it appears I've stumbled on a brother in arms! :-)

27 posted on 03/23/2021 6:29:47 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

In their defense, the Whites are aiding with their demise. If you do not believe it, pull up[if they are still on youtube, pull up some of the Trump Supporters waving flags in South Florida. When they showed the BLM people who were across the street. They consisted almost entirely of young White females. In addition, I have heard and read, “I am ashamed to be White”, numerous times and another one, “I may be White on the outside, but I I am Black on the inside.” Females were who I heard it from. No Blacks or Chinese have told me that they are ashamed of their race, only Whites.


28 posted on 03/23/2021 6:35:19 AM PDT by sport
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To: MtnClimber

They didn’t have any trouble with it under FDR or LBJ.


29 posted on 03/23/2021 7:02:22 AM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: MtnClimber

Well I’d say 25% already have embraced it.


30 posted on 03/23/2021 7:12:32 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Sans-Culotte

The US state security apparatus, corrupt Democrat Party and corrupt media are all banded together into a single powerful force brandishing communism disguised as social liberalism - the dark forces controlling this agenda are hell-bent to take down the forces of freedom in this representative republic. These dark forces are behind the scenes, satanic and wicked. There is only one way forward and it has to be based on faith in the face of fear. These communists must be destroyed and driven out.


31 posted on 03/23/2021 7:46:28 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: MtnClimber

They will if it’s couched as a means of addressing racism and slavery

Sure as hell

White people today will do queer shit so as not to appear racist...

Pretty much anything....


32 posted on 03/23/2021 7:48:50 AM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG )
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To: MtnClimber

Nope!

Dad was right - the only good commie is a dead commie.


33 posted on 03/23/2021 8:00:12 AM PDT by meyer (I swear to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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To: bert

Yes, that isn’t widely known. Gypsies, professors, intellectuals, “mental detectives.”

Have you ever watched “The Mortal Storm”?


34 posted on 03/23/2021 8:17:51 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: sport

Exactly...hence my short third paragraph. I liken these people to the Jewish Capos in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the death camps.


35 posted on 03/23/2021 8:20:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The Kapos were worse than the guards in most cases. They were, for the most part, criminals themselves.

I am sure that you have, but if you haven't, check out the Jewish Ghetto Police. Please. For your enlightenment. Thanks.

36 posted on 03/23/2021 8:36:18 AM PDT by sport
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats don’t call it socialism they call it a safety net and keep adding to it forever.


37 posted on 03/23/2021 8:37:08 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Vaduz

You can trace the growth of the federal government over the last 100 years...there’s no stopping it.


38 posted on 03/23/2021 8:38:14 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Lack of voting can cause that and look how voting turned out.


39 posted on 03/23/2021 8:57:24 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: usconservative

After looking at your FR profile, it appears I’ve stumbled on a brother in arms! :-) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I resemble that remark. :-)


40 posted on 03/23/2021 9:33:46 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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