Posted on 03/18/2016 9:38:19 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Accusing Republicans of being Hitler for assorted petty reasons dates back to the time when Hitler was still around. FDR accused Republican candidate Wendell Willkie of using “Hitler tactics” by repeating his slogans frequently. But it was the frequent associations of Republicans and Hitler by Democrats that was the true Big Lie. Its only purpose was a senseless association through the repetition of ridiculous and baseless accusations that every single Republican was just Hitler in a better suit.
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Republicans aren’t progressive. Therefore they’re Hitler. It’s really that simple.
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Optimists thought that the Democrats had reached “Peak Hitler” under Bush. But for the left there is no Peak Hitler. The same tired line of attack has been trotted out for fifty years. It will go on limping around the liberal corral for another fifty years or a hundred years. The Big Lie will continue being repeated to indoctrinate each new politically active progressive with the conviction that anyone to the right is Hitler and that every election is a brand new battle to stop Hitler 2.0 from taking over America.
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Goldwater was Hitler. Nixon was Hitler. Reagan was Hitler. Bush was Hitler. None of the latter three men declared the Fourth Reich, made themselves dictators for life and ran concentration camps. But the Big Lie retroactively rewrites the past by claiming that last decade’s Hitler was a decent moderate while the latest Republican Hitler is a terrifying monster. Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan were all resurrected as moderate contrasts to each other and then to Bush. The process of recreating Bush as a moderate has already begun. And so each Republican makes the electoral journey from Hitler to a political moderate whom a latter generation of liberals mourns while complaining that this latest Republican really is Hitler.
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You make a great point. I hate the discussions of who was less bad - Hitler or Stalin? Hitler did an incredible amount of destruction in just 12 years. And he spent the first 5 years consolidating his power and ramping up the terror and the killings. A comparison of what communist and fascist dictatorships have in common would really put the leftists in their place. Instead, such discussions turn into some twisted argument that Hitler was “less bad” than some communist, based on how you calculate the body counts.
The comical side to this is if you stepped into some East Saint Louis neighborhood and brought up Hitler....only about thirty-percent of people would be able to identify the guy, what he did, and what country he came from. Half of them would say he was some fictional character from some 1980s mini-series.
Idiot liberal progressives deny that the National Socialists were, indeed, socialists, despite the many similarities in the NSDAP platform with modern liberal progressive ideas.
Republicans aren’t progressive. Therefore they’re Hitler. It’s really that simple. “
Yes, this is a huge peeve of mine. Just because Hitler was against Stalin in WW2, lib rats are always repeating the trope that “the opposite of communism must be Naziism.” Then, they draw myriad false analogies.
Socialists are like communists, right? Ever heard of the Soviet Socialist Republic? Therefore, people who don’t like socialists must be like Nazis. FALSE.
The Fascists in Italy were allied with the Nazis, right? Therefore, the opposite of communism/socialism must be Fascism! If you don’t like socialism, you must be a Fascist!! FALSE.
If communists/socialists are on the left, then fascists must be on the right. FALSE.
Obviously, Fascists and Communists have a lot more in common with each other than with Free Market Capitalists. These lib rats and all their reliance on big gov’t and gov’t force are much more like Fascists.
Of course, this is all WAY beyond our modern school system.
“Just because Hitler was against Stalin in WW2”
Of course he wasn’t always against Stalin.
Hitler and Stalin started WWII by colluding to invade Poland and split it between themselves.
Stalin would have happily continued as Hitler’s henchman except that Hitler double crossed him in the summer of 1941, luckily for the West.
The Communist Party USA spun like a top trying to keep up with the party line.
“The Communist Party USA spun like a top trying to keep up with the party line.”
Great point! AND, the Communist Party USA did everything possible to cripple the US industrial might to delay and degrade out support to the Allies. (until the double-cross).
I thought Trump was Mussolini?
Their Only Weapon
A correspondent on Lawrence Auster’s site,
commenting on republican Arkansas Governor Huckabee’s feeling that racism is fueling the anti-immigration sentiment, wrote:
“All he has to do is stand up there, give one inane comment after another and use the word that puts trembling in the hearts of the American people and shut them down. Racist.”
A cartoon I saw recently showed a Mexican-flag-waving illegal snarling at a white man, saying something like “Let me into your prosperous country, you damned racist xenophobe.” It captured perfectly the dynamic involved in the immigration debate: people who have no leverage other than guilt are using it to control us.
What are they going to do the day that white people stop running from that word, “racist”?
I have begun, among my white friends, to acknowledge that I am a racist. I say, “If by racist, you mean that I think there are actual differences, genetic differences, between racial groups that have real consequences, then yes I am a racist. If you mean that I feel more of an affinity for people of my ethnic group, that I feel more comfortable and at home with them, then yes I am a racist. If you mean I put the interests of my people, my ethnic group, ahead of the interests of others just as I put my family’s interests over others, then yes I am a racist. But if by “racist” you mean someone who believes in genocide or slavery or hatred or oppression of other ethnic groups, then no, I am not a racist.”
I sense that many white people have had enough of being bullied with the “racist” label. But there are two ways of handling that accusation. One is to claim that you’re not actually a racist. This is the approach most whites take right now, but it hands all of the power over to the non-white person, who can then act as judge and jury on the evidence to decide whether the white person is a racist or not. The other approach is to say, “yeah, I’m a racist; so what?” There is no answer to that. If you prefer your own people and put their interests ahead of others’ without engaging in hatred or violence, what’s it to them?
Perhaps the non-whites and liberals are flinging the “racist” accusation with such vehemence because they sense that the white majority is losing patience. Their one tool, their one way of controlling white people, is losing its efficacy, so they ramp up the volume and the bitterness to try to keep the upper hand. Their worst nightmare is that white people stop flinching at the word because that will be the day that anti-whites (both non-whites and whites who scorn whiteness) lose their only weapon.
But while we need to assert that we, like every other healthy people on earth, are indeed “racists”, what we want to avoid this time is letting the pendulum swing back the other way into hatred. We don’t want another Hitler. We don’t want burning crosses. We don’t want oppression and injustice. We just want to assert our right to survive as a distinct people and to separate ourselves physically and politically from those who threaten our safety, prosperity, and unique identity.
And any and all democrates are people working for you
I generally like to hit from the left. I was once asked if I had a problem with black presidents. My answer was YES, if they act like Obama.
In this case, if they tell me that Trump is the next Hitler, my response will be something like:
“Yep, Hitler gave Germans their pride back, after having leaders that allowed them to be humiliated by the rest of the world. Yep, Hitler restored the economy and the military of Germany that had been DECIMATED by the Great Depression. Hitler showed the world that Germany would not get pushed around anymore. Do I agree with everything Hitler did? Of course not - but then most Democrats disagreed with President Clinton on NAFTA and Welfare Reform.”
Kaiser Wilhelm?
ping!
The reason why they pick on Hitler is because Hitler didn’t like commies.
But the Big Lie retroactively rewrites the past by claiming that last decade’s Hitler was a decent moderate while the latest Republican Hitler is a terrifying monster. Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan were all resurrected as moderate contrasts to each other and then to Bush.
Too true. Just saw the recent cover of Time magazine with a glowing cover of Ronald Reagan and Nancy at the GOP convention. The text was to the effect of “what happened to the GOP, they use to be so nice!”
That too, and don’t forget Stalin, Pol Pot, Hirohito, probably a little Manson, Son of Sam and any other bad actor that his walked this earth. Matter of fact he probably is all of them rolled into one with a factor of 5 tossed in for good measurer. LOL
LOLOLOLOL.
RLY?
It’s what the media does!
Fairly concise summary.
Stalin and Mao were much worse than Hitler: the Nazis killed people because of their ethnicity, and the Reds killed people to fill quotas.
My argument has been that Progressives created Hitler and own the fact that Hitler rose to power. Had the Versailles Treaty not been so harsh towards Germany and had not not the attempt to utterly crush Germany from existence as a “great” nation, Hitler would not have found a fertile ground to begin his rise to power. That wonderful “progressive” Woodrow Wilson made Hitler possible.
Consider what a really small, ugly, evil man Hitler really was... What history tells us was that as result of the Treaty of Versailles, the German people were put into real misery... and Hitler took advantage... Hitler's was one twisted sick punk... but Hitler had lots of help. I personally do not think Hitler was an intellect, he had produced nothing in his miserable life but strife and unrest... Hitler knew ‘human nature’, just like the liberals of today, but Hitler was so very short sighted... ended up destroying near the whole of Europe...
Look who is really against Trump...
Donald Trump, America’s modern Mussolini By Dana Milbank Opinion writer December 8, 2015
“the conservative military historian Max Boot tweeted: “Trump is a fascist. And that’s not a term I use loosely or often. But he’s earned it.””
Cruz's newly announced ‘foreign policy’ team... Some of this same bunch have said they would rather have Hillry for president instead of Trump....
Some people are born to deceive and some people are born to be deceived.
There was a time I would have been greatly offended and insulted to be told I was a Hitler follower... Given my uncle, a red-neck hick from the back woods of Missouri, struggling just to survive that great depression went in on Utah Beach on D-Day... Got his head blown open with shrapnel. Had the presence of mind to keep his thumb in the air moving so the ‘rescuers’ found him. He got a metal plate installed to keep his brain intact... and was then sent on to continue battle.
It is in his honor that I say screw you, to these lying malcontents, that try and bully we the American people by slurring Trump supporters, to be ‘low-information’ voters for Trump.
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