It’s hard to say. Hitler only got ahead because he was Hitler, even though he had had to change his original identity to turn into what we now think of as “Hitler.” That is, he was the child of an abandoned mother, he was a despised Austrian/Bavarian who wanted to be an “Aryan,” meaning a Nordic German, and he changed his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler because he thought it sounded better for his future career (just as Stalin changed his despised Georgian name to Stalin, meaning “Man of Steel,” and Obama went through several name changes). But while Hitler/Schicklgruber had his own ideas and wrote his own manifestoes, I think that once he was dead the whole Nazi project would have collapsed.
On the other hand, Stalin got ahead not as a founder but as a sociopath who (like Obama and Hitler) had changed his name to reflect what he would like to be and then glommed onto a movement that he thought could bring him power. It did, obviously, and the fact that he then eliminated the people who had gotten him there didn’t alienate the population (who were by then totally subject to his police state anyway) but simply made the subsequent apparatchiks be a little more conscientious about swearing allegiance to Stalin.
I think Obama is more in the Stalin mode than the Hitler mode.
Hitler didn’t change his name, it was his father who chenged his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler 10 years before Adolph Hitler was born.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler
Hitler didn’t change his name, it was his father who chenged his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler 10 years before Adolph Hitler was born.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler
I don’t think this is an aberration because of obama. The country has a lot of center-left people (in addition to the hard leftists) that buy into this european style one-world no borders philosophy. Generations of young people have been fully indoctrinated by NEA and MSM. It is a mistake to think this will correct once obama is gone. It is much worse than that. Once a huge mass of people are locked into the receiving side of socialism you have a major problem.