..”By so doing we chose a path between two extremes. The one of these extremes was holding our people: It was the liberal-individualist extreme which made the individual not only the centre of interest but also the centre of all action. On the other hand, our people were tempted by the theory of universal humanity which alone was to guide the individual. Our ideals were between the two: we saw the people as a community of body and soul, formed and willed by Providence. We are put into this community and within it alone can we form our existence. We have consciously subordinated all considerations to this goal, have shaped all interests according to it, and all our actions. Thus the National-Socialist world of thought arose which has overcome individualism, but not by cutting down individual capacities or individual initiative, only by asserting that the common interest is superior to individual liberty and the initiative of the individual. This common interest regulates and orders, if necessary, curtails, but also commands."
How ironic - the democrats love calling conservatives and republicans Nazis, while their very own platform eerily matches that of the National Socialist Party of Germany, circa the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Just noticed O said
” but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth. “
Hitler said “ ?. we saw the people as a community of body and soul, formed and willed by Providence. We are put into this community and within it alone can we form our existence.”
An Alinsky tactic of projecting onto Republicans what they, the Democrats, really are, no doubt.