Hitler during his 1938 inspection of a Volkswagen (Peoples Car) factory
Obama during his 2010 inspection of a GM (Government Motors) Volt assembly plant
Posted on 02/09/2016 2:07:44 PM PST by Torcert
A favorite tactic employed by leftists is to describe the Nazis as “right wing,†with Adolf Hitler, their leader, as the grand leader of this “right wing†movement. Rewriting history is pretty common for leftists, as their history is littered with injustice (the KKK was founded by Democrats, did you know?). Injustices they claim to fight against today. Awkward.
But thanks to this nifty thing called “history†in combination with “the internet,†we can bust this myth once and for all. Thoroughly. Or until a leftist insists on ignoring it. Then we’ll hold them down and tape their eyes open. Just kidding, that’s only what a leftist would do.
Adolf Hitler wasn’t “right wing.†If you take nothing else from this post, just remember Hitler was a socialist. With terrible facial hair. There’s an easy way to remember it, too. NAZI stands for National Socialist German Workers‘ Party. Associate it with blunt mustaches.
What does National Socialist German Worker’s Party mean? Glad you asked. Is it different from “Democratic socialism� Only in semantics. A Democracy is mob rule, which is why America is actually a constitutional, representative republic, NOT a democracy. A representative republic protects the minority from the majority, whereas a democracy is the rule of the majority. Leftists get caught up in words, getting tripped up over “National Socialism†as opposed to “Democrat Socialism.†But it’s just that. Semantics. So when Hitler ginned up hatred for the Jews, he could get the mob to agree with him. He could get the mob to believe him. There were no representatives to stop Hitler. He was one man helming the desperation of a majority of people. Spot the difference?
When we examine Hitler’s Nazi Germany through the lens of history, most, if not all of us, think of the Holocaust. In fact the holocaust might be the only thing we associate with Hitler’s Nazis. We’ve all been told of the Jews being marched off to death camps where they were worked, tortured, then gassed. We’ve also heard of the experiments conducted by Hitler’s Dr. Mengele. All terrible practices which we rightly find horrifying. Unless you’re one of those people who think Planned Parenthood is great.
What we don’t often hear or learn about is how Hitler ruled the rest of Germany, what his domestic policies were for the German people he didn’t march off to death camps. Hitler’s domestic, socialist policies will be the focus of this post. Trigger warning: they’re eerily similar to what American Democrats tout today. Double trigger warning? He initially had the support of the mob of people. So replace many of Hitler’s policies with something you hear from Bernie Sanders…
Employment for All
After that depression, Hitler made a huge promise to his people: employment for all. How did he do it? Roads and infrastructure
So Hitler created jobs…through government. While at the same time, he criticized certain segments of the population, demeaning them, blaming the countries woes upon them. The rich, they just ruin everything. Sound familiar? Big Education
If you haven’t seen it yet, go watch WW2 Surivor’s Account Draws Chilling Similarities between Nazism and Liberalism.
Public education, where children are at school all day long, with state-funded and state-sponsored curriculum… convinced yet? Nationalized Healthcare
Also from the WW2 Surivor’s accounting of Nazism:
After Hitler’s health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
Gun Control
Yes, Germany had gun control. It started before Hitler with a national gun registry
Finally, Hitler just took the guns from Jews. An armed citizenry is a dangerous one, after all. Hitler even said this about guns in the hands of the people: “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.â€
So excuse us Second Amendment supporters when we here Obama, Sanders and Clinton talking about regulating guns more than they’re regulated today. Call us paranoid. We’ll keep our guns.
The Police State
If you dared oppose the Nazis or Hitler politically, especially with your words, you better watch out. The Gestapo was on the hunt for political dissidents, many of whom would simply vanish.
In Conclusion
Hitler was a horrible human being. But aside from how he treated the Jews, aside from his monsterous ways, his polcies were anything but “conservative.†He wanted big government, he wanted big eductation, he wanted thought control. He hated political dissidents. He loathed free-speech. He feared an armed citizenry.
So stop saying “Hitler was right-wing.†No, he wasn’t. If anything, he was a full-fledged left-winger. With a horrible mustache.
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I know the feeling, Sometimes it feels like trying to swim upstream against leftist propaganda.
That sounds awfully familiar doesn’t it?
The left cannot bear to look into the mirror raised by history, they know they will see the images of both Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin reflected back at them.
Socialism has been tried over and over throughout the history of mankind, and it has ended up the same way every time. A very small clique ends up controlling every aspect of the lives of a vast number of “proletarians” or “serfs” or “working-men”, using the fruit of their labor to justify distribution “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”, a simplistic equation which has never worked except under threat of punishment, prison or execution.
Mao Tse-Tung, or Mao Zedong, or Mousy Tongue, one famously said, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Pretty much has to be that way in any socialist scheme ever devised.
Hmmm. Compare Hitler in the 1930s/1940s to Bloomberg today.
Speaking to the Aspen Institute on February 6, Michael Bloomberg said cities should ban young minority males from owning guns, both as an effort to reduce crime and to keep those minority males "alive."
The easier way to explain it is the NAZI-ism (National Socialism) is on the political right of full on Communism (leftists) Which is why NAZI’s were considered “right wingers”
Exactly - all part of the Socialist program.
Because you certainly cannot take people’s property for redistribution without a monopoly on the use of force.
I’ve always thought that the consigning of the Nazis to the right was due to the contrast between the nationalism on steroids of the various fascist governments (Italy, Spain, Germany) and the internationalist communists, particularly Russia and the allied German communists. The Nazis were socialist but communists were their biggest enemy. Many Jews in Germany were communists.
Ironic, isn’t it? It’s a pretty safe bet to reverse any thing claimed by democrats to find the truth of the matter. I haven’t found a single instance where it fails.
Tolerance.
Co-exist.
Choice.
Freedom.
Free speech.
Safe space.
Truth.
The list is pretty much endless. All of these memes mean the opposite.
Millennials don’t.
It sure does.
“Hitler hated ...Capitalism.”
Not correct. Hitler and the Nazi Party tolerated capitalism so long as it advanced the goals of the Nazi Party.
Nice find, thanks for posting.
The problem with that is that it’s contrary to the political spectrum.
As one goes further left, government control increases.. that is at odds with characterizing the Nazi’s as ‘right wing’.
More than that, according to Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in his book "Leftism Revisited", the original Nazi flags were MADE from Communist flags. They simply sewed a Swastika over the Hammer and Sickle on the flags they already had.
The Nazis were a splinter group off the communist movement in Germany. Oh, and they were also a Homosexual club when they started.
Obama during his 2010 inspection of a GM (Government Motors) Volt assembly plant
Right wing means different things in the USA and Europe. In Europe the right traditionally were monarchists. With the end of monarchial rule that became statist and nationalist. That’s what European “conservatives” wanted to conserve. In America the monarchists were kicked out, and American conservatives want to conserve the classic liberalism of the Founders.
The socialist left is the same in both places.
Are we (am I) allowed to call Hitler a Nazi?
I sure don’t want to offend anyone.
OK?
“Alois Schicklgruber’s Nazi Party was the right-wing of the socialist movement, with the left being Trotsky-Lenin’s Communist party.”
Please elaborate on how there can be a right-wing to a socialist party.
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