Posted on 10/20/2015 8:35:36 AM PDT by John S Mosby
"Like many other political autodidacts, Ben Carson has an odd obsession with Nazi Germany.
On several occasions, the pediatric-neurosurgeon-turned-Republican-presidential-candidate has compared the United States to the Third Reich. Mr. Carson has warned that a Hitler-like figure could rise in America. To understand what is happening in the Obama era, he recommended that people read “Mein Kampf.” And he won’t let go of the myth that the Holocaust would have been “greatly diminished” if Jews in Nazi Germany had been allowed to possess guns.
To declare the United States to be “very much like Nazi Germany” is a special kind of libel, yet Mr. Carson is clearly drawn to it. Part of the explanation may be that people who want to impress sometimes invoke imbecilic historical analogies, with the default one often being Nazi Germany. Some part of the answer has to do with his staggering ignorance when it comes to the unique malevolence of Hitler’s Germany."......
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Wehner is the GOPe weenie of the decade. He shilled for that ass Romney and is still shilling for Yeb and Rubio. Just say no.
It could happen here.
Didn’t something happen in the Warsaw ghetto?
Let’s see. . . Maybe “it matters” because he’s right?
Oldplayer
But it’s OK when the Libs say that Conservatives are Nazis.
Totalitarians start at the bottom - disarming citizens, stopping free speech, taking control of heath care and services people are dependent upon, targeting 'enemies of the State' with IRS etc... - and work their way up...
Ben Carson's talking about 'the birthing' of a totalitarian State... he's NOT saying Obama is putting humans in ovens or rounding them up for camps. Carson's saying the stage is being set...in it's typical fashion.
In Dr Carson’s defense, the whole Hitler/Nazi chapter is probably one of the most interesting subjects of recent history. It is the single most studied and well documented event in human history. So many lessons to be learned. People who dismiss it either never heard that old adage about having to repeat it, or are too stupid to appreciate its significance.
How many times have we seen “America” spelled “Amerika” by American leftists eager to make exactly that implication???
Carson agrees with Solzhenitsyn.
Someone I usually agree with posted this article on my Facebook page, basically endorsing this guy’s viewpoint.
I just posted that Germany wasn’t under Hitler until it was.
If you have weapons and know a bad guy will kill you unless you fight, YOU WILL FIGHT!
I had a German friend in my church many years ago. She was a little older than me and had spent several years in a Russian prison camp where, I think, her sister died.
She told me this story. Her family were farmers and well to do. They lived in the country. Her father went to town only occasionally to stock up on needed goods.
One day he went into town and was appalled to see a friend of his, a successful merchant, sweeping the street. He asked his friend, “Herman, what the heck or you doing?” or words to that effect.
The friend did not answer ... just looked down at his broom. In a minute my friend’s father was taken into custody for talking to this man. He spent many hours being questioned and held.
When he came home, he sat at the kitchen table staring into space and wouldn’t tell anyone what was wrong. He was never the same. He eventually told them.
So, no, I don’t dismiss Dr. Carson’s ‘obsession’ with Nazis.
“To declare the United States to be “very much like Nazi Germany” is a special kind of libel…” Strange words from the steno pad that supports America’s chief slanderer.
Carson is right. The Third Reich in all its brutality didn’t happen overnight; it happened with small steps in that direction, while the populace was either asleep and fed free bread or told wonderful tales of a German resurrection. Kind of like the utopia the democrats keep promising, while they continue to enrich themselves and the poor don’t get traction or the dems’ attention. Baby steps, like the kind of violations we accept everyday from TSA at every US airport. Like the constant balkanization of citizens directed from the White House. Like worshipping a war/common criminal running for President. Like the most secretive administration in history claiming otherwise. And so on.
It’s possible. And they NY Times will be part of it.
If you ever have to fight Nazis (under ANY other name) to
the death; you will remember it. My dad was shell shocked
all to Hell during WWII fighting Hitler and his Nazis to
the death (his or theirs; he chose THEIRS). He hated
having to kill the ordinary conscripted German boys who
were forced by Hitler to kill; he also detested the Nazi
officers - but he went, and he did his duty. - The idea of
throwing women & homosexuals into that mess would have
totally flummoxed him. In fact, the few homosexual men who
started basic in his outfit DID NOT MAKE IT THROUGH BASIC.
Those MEN had one thing on their minds; get shed of Hitler,
win that war and GET BACK HOME in one piece.
Or the people who dismiss it... are in agreement with Statist totalitarianism instead of a Constitutional Republic and the Bill of Rights including the 2nd Amendment.
Indeed— the gulag was created by another totalitarian State.
I’ve heard those on the left compare the US to Nazi Germany all the time for decades, and yet the NYT and others haven’t criticized them for it at all.
Here is a link from 2010 FR post by Commander X, from a blog called sodahead the writer being Kitty Werthman, the Austrian survivor. Excellent read from one who was there, and NOT in the camps.... everyday people who would not go with the flow if they could have, and is exactly what Ben Carson is talking about— especially in the medical field, not so much the firearms:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449983/posts
In all fairness, the French Revolution and Reign of Terror didn’t even bother with the disarming of citizens. If anything, they supplied citizens with guns specifically so they can gear up a mass killing from the start. And I know there were reports of people actually laughing and cheering when a guy was shot with shotguns. You can read all about it here: http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html
And bear in mind, the French Revolution is what ultimately set up the likes of Communism and even Naziism.
But beyond that, yes, Ben Carson is indeed correct, at least regarding the Nazi Germany comparison.
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