Posted on 08/21/2009 4:34:29 AM PDT by bmweezer
Kudos to Quinn & Rose for highlighting Liberal Fasism, published in the Canadian Free Press:
by Joy Tiz
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided” - Konrad Adenauer, First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of West Germany.
I can remember the feeling I had when he spoke. At last, I said, here’s somebody who can get us out of this mess. (Campbell, Susan Bartoletti. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 2005, Pg. 19. )
He was so convincing on the speaker’s platform and appeared to be so sincere in what he said that the majority of his listeners were ready to believe almost anything good about him because they wanted to believe it.He was the greatest orator Germany had ever known. Most amazing of all: he did it without a teleprompter. The comparisons between Hitler and Obama, while offensive to many, were inevitable. They both had the benefit of oratory skills and could deliver a stirring speech with minimal substance. They pitched the same ideology, “Everything must change!”As time went on, it became clear that he thought of himself as the Messiah.
Hitler used the Great Depression as his chance to seize power. The chanting, sloganeering, and fainting crowds—we’ve seen this all before, and the outcome wasn’t very constructive. It would be temerarious to fail to study the history of other cult leaders who rose to power at breakneck speed. The same Great Depression allowed FDR to get away with making radical changes in America.
In attestation to the incompetence of our public school system, liberals never tire of claiming that Hitler was the ultimate right-winger. As usual, they are completely wrong. Hitler’s party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Liberals are always screeching about how conservatives are fascists. Jonah Goldberg does a masterful job of describing the fascist playbook:
The tenderhearted Fϋhrer was also a champion of animal rights. Adolf may have originated the entire concept of political correctness: a nice day was to be referred to as “Hitler weather”; one way in which Hitler was able to change the values and frequencies of words. (Goldberg, Jonah. Liberal Fascism. New York: Random House, Inc, 2007, Pg. 211).
Adolf Hitler was certainly a proponent of what we now call identity politics, a destructive process by which liberals dissect the population into groups. Thus, we have a gay community, an African American community, a Hispanic community, and various and sundry other labels, limited only by the liberal imagination. Note that liberals never talk about an American community. Dividing the country into artificial groups allows the liberal Left to create imaginary victims and oppressors. This is what liberals call multiculturalism. Liberals should be jubilant to learn that Hitler also declared war on tobacco and alcohol; pushed new food certifications; and, foreshadowing our future bureaucracies, created industrial hygienists to develop workplace safety regulations.
Upon becoming chancellor, Hitler told the New York Times that his number one priority was ending unemployment; nothing else mattered but creating jobs. (Liberal Fascism). Germany after WWI was a mess, the government was corrupt, the citizens were dispirited, and the economy was collapsing. The Germans were also nervous about the new and militant Soviet Union after Lenin overthrew the czar. (source) The German people didn’t have much faith in democracy. “They longed for a strong leader who promised them jobs and a better life even if he had extreme ideas.” (Hitler Youth, Pg. 20)
Once again, we find the perfect storm, that ideal confluence of factors that enables a cult figure to grab power and exploit it. Adolf Hitler was a man of minimal accomplishment and skill and a failed artist. Hitler studied public speaking and psychology but was born too early to have the benefit of Alinsky training.
Hitler had plenty of help from the mainstream press, which he used as his own propaganda machine, which portrayed him as “extra human.” Once Hitler rose to power, the propaganda machine inflated everything he did right. Tight control of the press kept the public’s understanding of Hitler to a minimum. His appearances were staged to create feelings of the supernatural and religious. Can we really be expected to avoid comparisons to Obama’s fake Greek columns for his speech at the Democratic Convention? The German people came to see Hitler as a messiah. Portraits appeared with halos, and comparisons were made to Jesus. Hitler also understood the importance of disarming the citizenry if he were to seize control of the nation. As Dave Kopel of National Review Online explains it, “Simply put, without gun control, Hitler would not have been able to murder 21 million people.”
Women faint, when with face purpled and contorted with effort, he blows forth his magic oratory.”
Hitler was able to tap a source of cheap labor when he formed his youth corps. He understood kids as a political force; membership in the Hitler youth gave them hope and a chance to be heard. Young people were required to serve for six months following high school graduation. They were put to work farming, road building, and other projects. (Hitler Youth, Pgs. 62-63). You know, “infrastructure.”
The Hitler youth were not always aware of what was going on, nor were the movement’s victims: “We, the young fanatics of the Hitler Youth, had also become the Fϋhrer’s victims… They [the Jews] often didn’t know they were going to die until the last few minutes.” (Heck, Alfons. A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika. Phoenix: Renaissance House Publishers, 1985, Pg. 202).
However, at least some of the young people were told by senior officers or figured it out. Some historians believe it is preposterous that anyone living in Germany at the time of Hitler could have been oblivious. Still, the young Hitler fanatic did not always accept the truth. When shown documentary films of the death camps, many times, the young true believers responded with anger, convinced the films were fakes. So durable was the hold this cult leader had on his young followers that they were able to block out the unpleasant realties of the Final Solution, even when presented with the truth. Former Hitler Youth member Alfons Heck writes, “It was some time before I could accept the truth of the Holocaust, nearly three decades more before I could write or speak about German guilt and responsibility.” (Child of Hitler).
Heck describes the bond he felt with Hitler:
None of us who reached high rank in the Hitler Youth ever totally shake the legacy of the Fϋhrer. Despite our monstrous sacrifice and the appalling misuse of our idealism, there will always be the memory of unsurpassed power, the intoxications of fanfares and flags proclaiming our new age. (Pg. 207)What Heck describes illustrates the power of the trauma bond. Bonds developed out of trauma tend to be far more durable than healthy bonds. The theory of Stockholm syndrome rests on the tenacity of traumatic bonding. (Carnes, Patrick J PhD. The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc, 1997). In 2006, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wrote The Plan: Big Ideas for America. Emanuel’s plan calls for universal citizen service, asserting that every citizen must do his or her part. Under the plan, young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five would enlist for three months of civilian service, which would require “basic civil defense training.” (Emanuel, Rahm and Reed, Bruce. The Plan: Big Ideas for America. New York: Perseus Books Group, 2006, Pg. 62).
In a 2006 interview with New York Daily News reporter Ben Smith, Emanuel repeated his intention to compel civilian service. Emanuel offered these assurances: if we are worried about having to do fifty jumping jacks, the answer is yes; and the program will include uniforms and barracks.
Obama proposed extending AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps, as well as requiring middle and high school children to serve fifty hours per year; college students would be have to serve one-hundred hours per year. But not to worry, your children may not actually be forced to serve; the government will simply refuse to issue your youngster’s high school diploma as punishment. At the time of this writing, the GIVE Act has passed Congress, though House committee staff are insisting that the act will not change the voluntary nature of service at this time.
In the years after the war I have often asked myself what difference it might have made had I known six million Jews had been annihilated. Before the defeat of Germany and in my frame of unquestioning obedience, it would have made no difference to my loyalty.” (A Child of Hitler, Pg. 121)Source: The Canadian Free PressExcerpted from: Obamanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House, Joy Tiz, MS, JD, Available August, 2009
“Hitler had plenty of help from the mainstream press, which he used as his own propaganda machine, which portrayed him as “extra human.”
Useful idiots in the American media is doing the same thing with President Obama........
There is a reason I call Obama’s logo a “barastika”
By FREDERICK T. BIRCHALL
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Berlin, Monday, Aug. 20 — Eighty-nine and nine-tenths per cent of the
German voters endorsed in yesterday’s plebiscite Chancellor Hitler’s
assumption of greater power than has ever been possessed by any other ruler
in modern times. Nearly 10 per cent indicated their disapproval. The result
was expected.
The German people were asked to vote whether they approved the consolidation
of the offices of President and Chancellor in a single Leader-Chancellor
personified by Adolf Hitler. By every appeal known to skillful politicians
and with every argument to the contrary suppressed, they were asked to make
their approval unanimous.
Nevertheless 10 per cent of the voters have admittedly braved possible
consequences by answering “No” and nearly [text unreadable] made their
answers, ineffective by spoiling the simplest of ballots. There was a plain
short question and two circles, one labeled “Yes” and the other “No,” in one
of which the voter had to make a cross. Yet there were nearly 1,000,000
spoiled ballots.
38,279,514 Vote “Yes.”
The results given out by the Propaganda Ministry early this morning show
that out of a total vote of 43,438,378, cast by a possible voting population
of more than 45,000,000, there were 38,279,514 who answered “Yes,” 4,287,808
who answered “No” and there were 871,056 defective ballots. Thus there is an
affirmative vote of almost 90 per cent of the valid votes and a negative
vote of nearly 10 per cent exclusive of the spoiled ballots which may or may
not have been deliberately rendered defective.
How Chancellor Hitler’s vote declined is shown by a comparison with the
result of the Nov. 12 plebiscite on leaving the Disarmament Conference and
the League of Nations. The tabulation follows:
Yesterday Nov. 12
Yes 38,279,514 40,600,243
No 4,287,808 2,101,004
Invalid 371,058 750,282
Per cent of noes 9.8 4.8
These results therefore show that the number of Germans discontented with
Chancellor Hitler’s course is increasing but is not yet seriously damaging
to it. He is the Fuehrer [leader] of the Reich with absolute power by the
vote of almost 90 per cent of the Germans in it but the number of
dissentients has doubled since the last test.
It is not yet a matter for international concern but there are other
considerations which may be.
Dictatorship Now Complete
The endorsement gives Chancellor Hitler, who four years ago was not even a
German citizen, dictatorial powers unequaled in any other country, and
probably unequaled in history since the days of Genghis Khan. He has more
power than Joseph Stalin in Russia, who has a party machine to reckon with;
more power than Premier Mussolini of Italy who shares his prerogative with
the titular ruler; more than any American President ever dreamed of.
No other ruler has so widespread power nor so obedient and compliant
subordinates. The question that interests the outside world now is what
Chancellor Hitler will do with such unprecedented authority.
Nazi opinion is not disposed to be altogether cheerful about the result.
When one high official was asked by this correspondent to comment on it he
said:
“Obviously we feel the effects of June 30.”
He referred to the execution of Ernst Roehm and other Storm Troops chiefs.
That is also the opinion of many other Germans, especially among the more
substantial classes. They interpret the result as the beginning of a protest
against the rule of arbitrary will and as an effort to force Chancellor
Hitler back to the rule of law.
In their view the vote may induce the Fuehrer to steer henceforth a more
moderate course and take account of the sensibilities of general opinion.
Some of the more optimistic even hope it may induce him to get rid of some
of his radical advisers to whom the opposition within Germany is great.
This view, however, is not shared generally and the dissent is borne out by
the remark of a Nazi official who said bitterly, “We have become too soft.”
Ex-Marxists Support Hitler
A feature of the election was that former Marxists cast a far heavier vote
for Chancellor Hitler than the so-called bourgeoisie. In Berlin especially,
judging by their vote, former Communists still are Leader Hitler’s most
loyal followers. In one voting district in Wedding, where a few years ago
Communists fought from behind barricades against the police, the “yes” votes
amounted to 949; the “no” votes and invalid ballots totaled 237.
In one district west of Berlin, inhabited mainly by business men and
intellectuals, the “yes” vote only 840 and the “no” votes and invalid
ballots totaled 351. Other tests provided similar results.
In the Communist districts protest votes with Communist inscriptions were
rare. In Western Berlin they were more frequent. In one district five
ballots had the name “Thaelmann” written in. [Ernst Thaelmann is an
imprisoned Communist leader.] One ballot contained this inscription, “Since
nothing has happened to me so far I vote ‘Yes.’” It was signed “Non-Aryan.”
Interesting also are the following results: the hospital of the Jewish
community in one district cast 168 “Yes” votes, 92 “Noes,” and 46 ballots
were invalid. The Jewish Home for Aged People in another district cast 94
“Yes” votes, four “Noes” and three invalid ballots. This vote is
explainable, of course, by the fear of reprisals if the results from these
Jewish institutions had been otherwise. It is paralleled by other results
outside Berlin.
In all Bavaria Chancellor Hitler received the largest vote in his favor in
the concentration camp at Dachau where 1,554 persons voted “Yes” and only
eight “No” and there were only ten spoiled ballots.
Hamburg Leads Opposition
Hamburg, which only two days ago gave Herr Hitler the most enthusiastic
reception he had ever received anywhere, led the country in the opposition
vote. The official figures were: Total vote cast, 840,000; “Yes,” 651,000;
“No,” 168,000; invalidated ballots, 21,000.
The “No” vote, in other words was 20 per cent of the total vote. Counting
the invalid ballots as negative in intent, the total opposition votes
exceeded 22 per cent. The percentage of the electorate voting was 92.4.
Hamburg is the home city of Ernst Thaelmann and on his triumphant entry into
the city on Friday, Herr Hitler made it a point to drive past herr
Thaelmann’s former home.
As far as observers could ascertain, the election everywhere was conducted
with perfect propriety, and secrecy of the ballot was safe-guarded. The
ballots were marked in regular election booths and placed in envelopes and
these were put in the ballot boxes. After the voting had ended the ballot
box was emptied on a large table and the vote was counted publicly in the
regular manner. Appraising of individual votes seemed impossible.
One check on possible non-voters, however, was exercised by instructions
that the voting authorizations issued to those who for one reason or another
planned to be outside their regular voting district on election day must be
returned unless used. The number of such authorizations issued for this
election exceeded anything known before.
Throughout the day Storm Troopers stood before each polling place with
banners calling on the voters to vote “Yes.” Otherwise voters remained
unmolested. Inside the polling places uniforms and even party emblems had
been forbidden, but the execution of this order was lax. In some apparently
doubtful districts brown uniforms dominated the scene as a warning to
would-be opponents.
Nazis Try for Record Vote
All past efforts in getting out the German vote were eclipsed in this
election. During Saturday night a huge final poster was plastered on
billboards everywhere. It said:
Your leader [Hitler] has traveled 1,500,000 kilometers by airplane, railway
and motor car in the cause of Germany’s rebirth. You have but to walk 100
meters to your voting booth to vote “yes.”
All over Germany means were taken to get the Sunday late-sleeping population
out of bed early. The polls opened at 8 o’clock, but in Berlin Storm Troops,
Hitler Youth Troops and Nazi labor union groups took to the streets as early
as 6 o’clock to wake the populace by shouting at them to do their duty
The comparisons between Hitler and Obama, while offensive to many, were inevitable.
You support obama, don’t you?
You support obama, don’t you?
you have a point. But i guess the “problem” is you will find some (of course sometimes more sometimes less) similarities with the politics of the Nazis in near every political ideology around the world.
Hayek, in Road to Serfdom, described people like you exactly.
You refuse to see the end result of what we are seeing now, because the atrocities are so egregious compared to what our society is [currently] capable of.
Tell me, did Hitler start “rounding people up” when he first attained power, put through his stimulus bill, implemented nationalized health care, used racial tension to secure his power, and implemented a radical environmentalist agenda?
When people start getting rounded up for the camps - it’s too late to “notice you”.
Calling “right wingers” “Nazis” is just plain ignorant.
Seriously, you need to read “Road to Serfdom” (Hayek).
It was written about England in the mid 40’s as a warning to England not to embark on “central planning”.
Yes it was a German socialist that thought she was more equal than the rest that called our President George W. Bush, Hiter-like/ Nazi like. What does Nazi stand for?
I am an American and I was told through my public education that the NAZIs were 'right-wingers'. It was not until I started reading the history before Hitler that I discovered there was NOTHING 'right' about him or his enforcers. So we that are on the political 'right' have had our fill of being accused of being Nazi or Hitler like when the leftist destroyers get their panties in a wad.
Calling “right wingers” “Nazis” is just plain ignorant.
Seriously, you need to read “Road to Serfdom” (Hayek).
It was written about England in the mid 40’s as a warning to England not to embark on “central planning”.
The Nazis DIDN’T START OUT “ROUNDING PEOPLE UP”.
Do you want us to sit quietly until that starts happening before we protest the path we’re taking?
Are we not supposed to see the parallels in history as a warning? (Doomed to repeat, et al)
Our dear leader is not planning on 'rounding' up people he is planning on providing an 'end of life' pill proscribed by some government entity of appointed counselors. Now if we on the 'right' get to hard to herd he and his prompter programmers may have to take other measures.
Do you want us to sit quietly until that starts happening before we protest the path we’re taking?
Are we not supposed to see the parallels in history as a warning? (Doomed to repeat, et al)
I truly do not think that Zero has any oratory skils at all — I don’t kow how anyone can say that.
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