Godwin’s law says that: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” Godwin’s law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one’s opponent) with Nazis. . . .
The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies, if that was the explicit topic of conversation, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate . . .
Godwin’s law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent’s argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.
When it comes to discussions of Barack Obama, violations of the Second Amendment, and executive orders to accomplish by decree what the Supreme Court has ruled cannot be accomplished by the rule of law, it appears that comparisons to Nazi Germany are entirely appropriate. Heil Obama!
This has been very noticeable for the past five years. See, for example, Leftwing Chickens Coming Home.
Furthermore, it is important that those who love the American tradition, premised upon individual responsibility, fully appreciate the implied premises of having a massed following, chanting in unison in a great stadium, as their "Leader" rants in measured inflections. It was certainly no accident in 2008, when the Democrats adjourned from the Convention Hall to a great Stadium, for the "Leaders'" 2008 acceptance of their call to power.
Those implied premises are the absolute antithesis of a society based upon maximizing individual responsibility.
William Flax