Nancy's Nazis

American Thinker ^ | August 08, 2009 | James Lewis

[neverdem]

Nancy Pelosi has a very florid imagination. In her mind's eye she is seeing people "carrying swastikas" at Town Hall meetings to protest Obama's Central Plan for American medicine. Which makes me wonder why all the swastika-carrying nutsies -- or Nazis? or just nasties? --  in Ms. Pelosi's imagination are not in favor of Obama's plan to control US medicine. It's a control freak's dream, after all, and the Nazis were totalitarian control freaks.

Can we get serious? One of the painful things today is the massive failure of history teaching in the schools and colleges, so that kids confuse Hitler's Nazis with the people who fought for freedom against them. Stalin and Hitler forged an alliance in 1938. Had Hitler not gone mad and invaded Stalin's Soviet Union, the Nazis and Soviets would have gone to war against the West together. And they would have won.

The Nazis were totalitarian romantics. That is why Hitler imitated and glorified Richard Wagner, the Siegfried mythographer who marked the very height of German Romanticism.  That is also why the Nazis hated both Jews and Christians, and promoted a neo-pagan religion based on the Nordic gods and the glorification of killing and war. The Nazis were romantics -- just like the hippies in the Sixties. They loved going "back to nature," "the noble Savage," nudism, and the destruction of marriage and traditional families.

Obama's former good buds Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are prototypical anarchist Romantics, people who are quite willing to kill for their cause. Hitler's Nazis were emotional revolutionaries with an endless craving to attack, subvert, control and co-opt all the existing structures of society. Oh, and yes, they had a Mass Cult of the Leader not unlike the idolatry whipped up for Barack Obama today. Obama's "Citizens of the World!" speech in front of 200,000 cheering Berliners had that very familiar look to it. That was not an accident, but a deliberate PR stunt.

The best explanation of Nazism ever written is Peter Viereck's Metapolitics: The roots of the Nazi mind. If you only give your kids one book this year, that should be the one. Viereck's Metapolitics was written in great fear and passion during the early days of Hitler's rise, when the author was a still graduate student of German history, and then revised two decades later. But it's one of those books that remains relevant because it hits the nail on the head. You can't get more accurate than Viereck did. A few years later Thomas Mann wrote an Epilogue to Viereck's book, endorsing its main conclusions. They both understood how deeply the Nazis were rooted in German history.

"Metapolitics" is the name the Nazis gave to their brand of politics, because in their minds they were trying to change the entire world, not just be another political party. Marxism is metapolitics; Nazism is metapolitics. And yes, some of today's political fantasists dream the same dreams. (Hint: Who do you think wants to revolutionize the world today?)

Metapolitics was very controversial even after World War Two, because it criticized European Romanticism, beloved by European and American scholars and writers. But Peter Viereck was right and his critics were wrong. German Romanticism of the totalitarian variety survived the Nazis, and just re-emerged as the Green movement in Europe. Nazism was always a "back to nature" movement anyway. After the Nazis were defeated, all the Wagnerian Romantics turned into Socialist Romantics. Often they were the very same people, like Martin Heidegger, Paul de Man, and even Jean-Paul Sartre.  The 1968 student riots in Europe, which ultimately brought the Greens to power, were run by anarchists identical to the Nazi rioters of the Munich beer halls. Some of them have realized as much since that time.

Post-modernism is an attack on Western rationalism, democracy, capitalism, free speech and free thought. It's called "Post-Modernism" because it wants to kill modernism. Modernism stands for science, technology, democracy, medicine and yes, bourgeois capitalism: The keys to modern prosperity and well-being. That is why "Post-Modernism" became so popular in our college English and History departments. That is also why we have the "global warming" fraud, the anti-science movements, the anti-nuclear power campaigns, the "post-modern" media -- run by propaganda artists who were taught in college that lying for a "good cause" was better than telling the truth. Those are the mediots who are running our media today.

Culturally, the Nazis would have felt right at home with that attack on Western rationalism, capitalism, and freedom of thought. It was exactly what they wanted. The Nazis were Post-Modernists. Modernity was their enemy. Hitler characteristically called Albert Einstein's relativity theory "Jewish science." Back in Moscow, Jozef Stalin promoted an attack on science by peddling fraudulent agricultural genetics. Stalin thought he could discipline his marching ranks of wheat stalks to grow taller by force, encouraged by his fraudulent "geneticist" Trofim Lysenko.   Both Hitler and Stalin hated real science. They had real scientists sent to concentration camps.

The reason is of course that real science is about telling the truth. That is why "global warming" is also a totalitarian scheme; it's fraudulent science. It is also why the Left cannot openly debate the pros and cons of Central Planning in American medicine. They are not happy with searching out the truth.

And I'm afraid, that is also why Nancy Pelosi has to imagine "people with swastikas" flooding the Town Hall meetings in America, to fight against all the Good and Noble people like herself. Nancy is a certifiable airhead, but the beliefs echoing in her head come from decades of ideological indoctrination -- of the Totalitarian Romantic kind. People like Ms. Pelosi have been given all the answers by the ideologues of the Left. That is why their minds are shut so air tight. 

Let's not call them names, our Totalitarian Romantics of today. 

But let's not forget their historical antecedents either.

Hint: It's not Washington, Madison, Jefferson or Lincoln.

[jessduntno]

TOWN HALL MEETINGS BY STATE AUGUST, SEPTEMBER:

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/TownHalls.aspx

[neverdem]

Excellent!!!

[Deagle]

Hers was a last ditch effort to derail the Anti-Health Care stupidity that she and her party proposed. She can’t stand to lose anything - so the desperate effort!

Can’t believe that she is still elected but can only surmise that the idiots in her district are...

[Schatze]

Gee, I just thought the House Madam was a congenital liar ...

[Lurker]

Great post. Thanks.

[Danae]

Well, what do you expect of a population that gets free condoms, free needles and Syringes and Methadone between horse fixes??

Seriously, what else CAN you expect?

[Deagle]

Just what they voted for!

[savagesusie]

Excellent article! Thanks for posting!

[DC Ripper]

People who matter are waking up. They recall her inconsistencies about waterboading. They remember her claims the the CIA lies all the time.

This has not gone completely unnoticed. And now it serves to undermine them at the time we need it most.

Thank the Good Lord we did not impeach this unwise woman, and I mean that literally.

[Deagle]

Heh...right there... “Nancy” is the Republican’s gift for the next election... Actually, so is Reid, and several others...heh. That’s okay that they do not realize that their antics only turn off most Americans - You should not advertise that they are a bit out of norm - they might not every know...hehe.

[SpaceBar]

New bumper sticker: piss test nancy.

[SERE_DOC]

If we are alleged to be Nazi's according to Pelosi the village idiot of congress, I would surmise that Congress would be the Politburo and the DNC would be the NKVD

[Islander2]

Nancy’s Nazis has a nice ring to it. I would like to keep repeating this over and over as the Union Goons use their brown shirt tactics against townhall participants. The Dems are responsible for any and all physical violence that should come from these confrontations. Plenty of video and audio, nailing them in the public eye and mind, before really nailing them hard financially in a court of law.

[trailboss800]

Ahh...Nancy, those things are not swastikas, they’re called crosses...

[neverdem]

The Real Climate Agenda (seems quite malevolent.)

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Gun control on a roll?

Government Medicine Kills - The U.K. and Canada prove it.

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[sheik yerbouty]

Pelosi Galore is floridly psychotic,, suffering from a chronic Prolixen deficiency..

[tophat9000]

kids confuse Hitler's Nazis with the people who fought for freedom against them. Stalin and Hitler forged an alliance in 1938.

First thing people are not taught (and the left hides)

NAZI is a German acronym for Nationalsozialist..."National Socialist"

The NAZI party full name was "National Socialist German Workers Party" (NSDAP)

[claymax]

They make rubber rooms for people like this.....