Are the Hitler Parallels Too Close for Comfort? »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 2 months ago260 Comments Report this Story
If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end. After all, it is a tale that has been told time and again throughout history. For example, over 70 years ago, the citizens of another democratic world power elected a leader who promised to protect them from all dangers. In return for this protection, and under
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Harbeas1 year, 2 months ago
Poppycock! Whatever Bush does between now and the time he leaves office will be overturned or reversed by the new president. So lets not get everyone paranoid over many of Bush's acts.
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populist1 year, 2 months ago
I've been hearing that about upcoming presidents for quite a long time. Doesn't ever seem to really work out that way...
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eddie1071 year, 2 months ago
Looooooooooooooooooser!
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What would you do! Imagine this, Bush says, "I am the supreme leader for eternity now!"
What do you do? just sit on your hands and say, "I told you so!"
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NO! just like every single solitary person in the whole F'g world, we would hand his @$$ to him on a platter, and send his butt packing. So shut the heck up!
What I would like to know is, how the heck does a frickin 5th grader, who would even think this is anything that has any validity, manage to support himself while pumping out all this vomit all day long?
You are worse than Rush Limbaugh.
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injest1 year, 2 months ago
Lets see if a got this right.
The directive (with no name) along with the bill (with no name) that Congress passed (100 Senators and 475 or so Congressmen) 500 politicians voted on this bill with no comment. And the complaint is the no name directive and the no name bill is too vague, really.
Iv heard this before, years ago actually, when I was drinking, cause this sounds like a drunk at a bar.
So what is this no name directive bill supposed to accomplish?
What stops a President from "use the military as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any "other condition."
And why, this could be a good history lesson question.
Name that act and why it came about?
hint, every President from 17 on has tried to change this
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
Hitler had every child do its geneology back to the great grandfather, so the Jews could be identified. I don't see that happening here. Your view of Hitler is very selective to come up with an argument you think will frighten people. You need to read your history -
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
Gotta luv those that want to stamp hitler face over Bush's so easily,,,,,, It's wrong to do now and would be if it were a Democrat,,,,,, Though you hate Bush with much passion and from what I've seen of Bush,,,, some of it is worthy,,,,,, but to put him on the same scale as Hitler,,,, with the millions of deaths at his hands is welllll I won't say you can put your own adjectives as you see fit.
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scriblerus11 year, 2 months ago
Klarissa: You're a little dense for your name, which is supposed to be about mental clarity. Why would you expect modern American fascism to take on exactly the same forms as Nazism? You are obtuse.
Try reading Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. Or maybe Britt's Fourteen Points. There you will discover that Fascism's scapegoats can take many shapes and don't have to be just Jews. They can be Muslims, for example, or "terrorists." Or just about anything that the popular mind finds fearful at a given time.
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scriblerus11 year, 2 months ago
Mark Stevens: "I don't here Kennedy, or Nixon, or Johnson being mentioned."
Okay, I'll mention them, although I think these presidents' motivations were different from Bush's. Still, the military industrial complex made plenty of money off Vietnam--fascist style--while the middle class paid for the war.
But Bush went into office planning on being a war-time president. He told a friend he intended to be a war-time president. It is well documented. Why did he say this? I will venture to say that he knew that it would be easier to force through his agenda of tax-cuts and curbing the Constitution with the red herring of war and fear to distract from said agenda. Karl Rove whispered to him.
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studentambassador1 year, 2 months ago
'We killed far more Vietnamese than Iraqis.'
Glad to see that those lives mean nothing as long as you can whip out a worse figure from a different stupid war.
And it doesn't look like we'll be out of there anytime soon...keep counting.
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 2 months ago
And if bushCo's successor is the first in a long line of hand-picked new presidents???
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Daylight1 year, 2 months ago
Harbeas
Poppycock! Whatever Bush does between now and the time he leaves office will be overturned or reversed by the new president. So lets not get everyone paranoid over many of Bush's acts.
But one of the worst criminals and a mass murderer of the Middle East walks free from prosecution, he deserves to be hanged in public, so that the next president of the US will not dare to kill people of other nations.
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
>Whatever Bush does between now and the time he leaves office will be overturned or reversed by the new president. So lets not get everyone paranoid over many of Bush's acts.
So why do the Bushies bother trying to turn our country into a fascist state? And why do the kool-aid drinkers support this agenda if it is destined to be overturned in 2009?
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lvrofwolves1 year, 2 months ago
And Hitler believed until the very end that he could rule if only the German people were strong enough- when the coward, betrayer of Germany killed himself. And he kept it going by telling lies to the people-you are un-German if you do not keep fighting. There were still a few who went to the gallows to be hung after the trials that were 'Heil Hitler' amazing how some can still support someone or beliefs that are so wrong! until the very end. and that regime was destined to end as well.
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earthlingerer1 year, 2 months ago
Hogwash, harbeus!
Presidential directives are NEVER taken off of the books, and many decisions or actions a president takes can often take more than one administrative term to fix.
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geoffinak1 year, 2 months ago
Finally someone with the brass to stand up and call it what it is , we have lost our democracy. Poppycock, well the Patriotic was only supposed to run a year or so then sunset. WELL here come PAT 2 because it's good for catching crooks hey hey hey . The people who do not see this happening have their head in the sand . Wake up, look at history, but nobody will, a bunch of sheep and you deserve what you will get. You have lost your Constitutional rights. Someone can come to your door take you away and tell no one where you are and you have NO right to an attorney. All this on conspiracy. History repeats it's self and if anybody thinks this election will change things that poppycock Because as George says, your either with us or your against us. When the newbies arrive for the next election, it will be the same thing. Your either with us or your against us, and if you were told that with a couple of scary looking guys what do you think you would do, exactly as they say to do.
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studentambassador1 year, 2 months ago
'Poppycock! Whatever Bush does between now and the time he leaves office will be overturned or reversed by the new president.'
If there IS a new president. Do you even understand the implications of this? If he assumes control of the government, then he could extend his term indefinitely, until the so-called 'crisis' is resolved.
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monicadozy3 months, 3 weeks ago
BTW whenever power is concerned,
it turns into circle of evil. History repeated itself from time to time.
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swasdiva1 year, 2 months ago
I beg to disagree. It's always healthy to approach anything with a little skepticism and to learn the facts from both sides. I'm not so quick to jump on this man's bandwagon, but our country following the patterns of others isn't completely unbelievable. Quite the contrary, history *does* repeat itself, not because of anything metaphysical but because with each generation the hardships and mistakes of the past are forgotten. Seriously, why waste time being fearful over one ambiguity (the constant threat of terrorism) when you easily dismiss another (dissolution of our republic)?
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geoffinak1 year, 2 months ago
1935 will go down in history ! For the first time,a civilized nation
has full gun registration ! Our streets will be safer,our police more efficient
and the world will follow our lead into the future!" Adolph Hitler
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Herman Goring
Nazi Party Leader
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geoffinak1 year, 2 months ago
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,--"I see no probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be silent: I see it, if you don't." Abraham Lincoln, 1848
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RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago
What would be wrong with loving mohammed? It is not any more wrong than being a mormon/catholic like you. In fact, the odds of muslims being right are better than the odds of Christianists being right, in terms of number of adherents.
Most religions are based upon intolerance toward other religions (and atheists). Christianity is no different.
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CrazyRay1 year, 2 months ago
...and what exactly are these "Parallels" between Hitler and Bush...
...see, most people like to get their news from a source that isn't biased...the left and the right have criticized this idiot
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lum-chate1 year, 2 months ago
There are many differences between bush & hitler
But to be fair there are also several ways in which Bush is not like Hitler:
1. Hitler was elected.
2. Hitler rebuilt the German economy.
3. Hitler was an artist. (Bush doesn't even write his own bad poems.)
4. Hitler was not an alcoholic.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 2 months ago
lum-chate
1. Hitler bullied his way into office
2. Hitler rebuilt the German economy at first but by using tactics to later be the ultimate traitor to Germany. And how did he build it? by stealing from the Jews, and forced labor. That so called great economy didn't last very long, tho I guess long enough to build a great military machine.
3. Hitler wasn't a good enough artist to be called a great artist, he stole everyone elses art works.
4. Hitler wasn't an alcoholic, but he was a druggie!!!
Hitler might have seemed all good for the Germans for awhile, based on LIES! Hitler told, and used as propaganda to futher his agenda. Germans were taught that Jews were evil and needed to be eracticated from Germany.
All done under the guise that the Nazi gov would protect the German people..and you are either for us, or against us!!!!
Hitler DID fight in WW1 tho
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Edmar141 year, 2 months ago
It is common thought that Hitler was elected. In actuality, he was not elected. He was appointed chancellor for political reasons. That said, it was never dreamed that he would take the power and dissolve the republic. By 1934, Germany was in Hitler's grip and nothing short of assassination could stop the process he was initiating. By 1939, well you know the rest of the story.
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
then its our duty as citizens to make sure we don't turn into "good germans" as the neocons continually try to hijack the constitution and degrade our civil rights.
stand up. speak out.
