Posted on 07/13/2007 5:36:21 PM PDT by neverdem
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I've read mostly the opposite. Where did you read that she remained a Nazi?
It's possible she lied, of course. You can't know what someone is thinking.
Frau Riefenstahl gave an interview when she was well into her nineties. She said that she found Hitler to be a nice man, and that neither she nor the Fuehrer knew anything about atrocities committed against the Jews.
“I did nothing wrong, Hitler did nothing wrong, Germany did nothing wrong.”
That mostly summed up Frau Riefenstahl’s attitude toward 1939-1945.
I have to give credit to the many unnamed Freepers who have used this moniker before me and which I then gladly stole for my own use. I think it says it all.
American exceptionalism is a term I don’t see often enough. I am an unabashed American exceptionalist. Except no imitations. Good article ND.
Republican ethos and ideas about nationhood
Proponents of American exceptionalism argue that the United States is exceptional in that it was founded on a set of republican ideals, rather than on a common heritage, ethnicity, or ruling elite. In the formulation of President Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address, America is a nation “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”. In this view, American is inextricably connected with liberty and equality. It is claimed that America has often acted to promote these ideals abroad, most notably in the First and Second World Wars, in the Cold War and today in the Iraq War. Critics argue that American policy in these conflicts was more motivated by economic or military self-interest than an actual desire to spread these ideals, and point to an extensive history of using South American nations as slave economies, suppressing democratic revolutions against US-backed dictators when necessary.
The United States’ policies have been characterized since their inception by a system of federalism and checks and balances, which were designed to prevent any person, faction, region, or government organ from becoming too powerful. Some American exceptionalists argue that this system and the accompanying distrust of concentrated power prevent the United States from suffering a “tyranny of the majority”, and also that it allows citizens to live in a locality whose laws reflect that citizen’s values. A consequence of this political system is that laws can vary greatly across the country. Critics of American exceptionalism maintain that this system merely replaces the power of the national majority over states with power by the states over local entities. On balance, the American political system arguably allows more local dominance but prevents more national dominance than does a more unitary system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism#Republican_ethos_and_ideas_about_nationhood
Also good looking . As opposed to The bloated socialist toad Micheal Moore.
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