Posted on 10/07/2008 3:36:41 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
A nation that doesn't know history is destined to repeat its serious mistakes. People swayed by carefully crafted political propaganda relentlessly repeated and effectively delivered can easily lose their freedom and way of life.
How many times have you been told by soaring, almost hypnotic oratory that "the direct causes of our financial crisis and subprime real estate loan mess were the greedy banks, big corporations and the failed economic policies of George Bush"?
...To begin with, Germany's Nazi party in 1928 won only 810,000 votes nationally, elected only 12 to the Reichstag and was considered sort of a joke. But the 1929 crash started the Depression, with unemployment soaring and poverty hitting hard, even among the formerly prosperous middle class.
In 1930, the bad economy helped the Nazi party get 6.5 million votes nationally and put 107 deputies in the Reichstag, becoming the second-largest party. By 1933, again due to a poor economy, Hitler became Germany's chancellor. His storm troopers, Hitler Youth and Goebbels' propaganda departments grew rapidly.
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Yikes. I’d only seen the clip- I didn’t pick up the lyrics.
Too late, give us Barabas.
Hitler’s NAZI Germany was admired by FDR. A lot of what has been going on here is taken from National Socialism.
For instance the NAZI’s were able to get businesses to cooperate with them because the govt took over the money and was to sorce of business loans.
And today the govt announced a plan to loan money directly to businesses.
Heil Obama the new World leader!
Ready the camps for those who refuse to give all to the collective.
Start the ovens. scarsm off
Vote Democrat: Fascists are people, too.
Knowing what we already know, who can scoff at that. It must be fought in all quarters.
......better open the brandy for this one.
Hayek’s thesis was basically that the people were already sold on the government being the solution to their problems.
The rest was just a matter of dynamics (forceful people taking over the government because they were the only ones who could “get things done”).
Socialism paved the way for Nazism.
Think about how many people in this country already look to government first to cure their ills.
Precisely. Obama isn’t another Stalin though - he’s just the sock puppet for his marxist masters. Eventually, he will be replaced by a stronger marxist as he will be seen as “not marxist enough.” After that, expect for the killings to begin - possibly a whole race of people wiped out (blacks will be seen by the marxists as useful idiots only to a point). No state will be safe - Stalin even starved the entire country of Ukraine to death killing over 7 million people in one year.
The Soviet Union was the scariest thing this world has ever seen. It can happen in America, and it WILL happen if things don’t turn around for us.
Are you prepared to pull the trigger?
It would be a horrible proposition, to have to resort to the ultimate in violence in order to retain ones' freedoms, but not quite as horrible a situation as being forever enslaved to the whims of tyrants.
I love cops, I "was" one. I don't think for a minute that the local sheriff in my county would come knocking on doors collecting guns.
IF the UN tried it in my county, (notice, not city), the Sheriff and deputies I know would also be a force to be reckoned with.
Am I ready to pull the trigger? Yep,, no doubt. I have killed bad dogs (thanks to their owners) and many critters. Some wild animals wear cloths. No difference.
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