Comments on: Are Obama and the American people capable of mimicking a Hitler/Nazi-like experience?

By: Rhymes With Right

Rhymes With Right — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:51:50 +0000

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By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:05:01 +0000

I don’t think it’s useful any longer to compare anyone to Hitler. I tune them all out, left and right.

Having said that, I do find it useful to comment to my liberal friends *about* the comparisons, because it gives me the “in” to comment about how Hitler was a leftist, and that the Nazis were the National Socialist Party of Germany. And that most fascist movements in history have been leftist. And then sit back and see what they have to say. That part – that manner of using Hitler in conversations – remains useful.

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By: The Colossus of Rhodey

The Colossus of Rhodey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:03:12 +0000

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By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:19:39 +0000

Been done to death.

By the Left. If terrorists use bombs, that does not make us terrorists if we use better bombs. If the Left uses Hitler as part of their propaganda, it doesn’t make us the Left to use the true form of Hitler in a better way.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:41:32 +0000

I am deathly tired of the word “Hitler” being used by anyone to vilify their opponents. It really doesn’t work anymore. Been done to death.

We should focus on issues such as the shocking unemployment rate, which is now officially at 9.7% and unofficially much, much higher. That we’re still shedding jobs while many other countries are gaining jobs.

Other countries have leaders that know that cap and trade is a crazy joke, and that everything over there is lip service to the Green Movement. Here, our President is a crazy joke who takes Cap And Trade very seriously, and therefore our markets and our jobs climate suffer. Because they must take into account that this serious idealogue fully intends every iota of vicious harm to the country that his programs offer.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:44:35 +0000

It is very dangerous to assume that national characteristics are immutable. Many people refused to believe that Naziism was as bad as it in fact was because “Germany is such a civilized nation.”

I read about Jews in a remote village somewhere in Russia who looked forward eagerly to the arrival of German troops during WWII. They remembered the Germans from the earlier war, who had behaved much better than the anti-Semitic and thuggish Russian admninistrators they usually dealt with.

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:06:43 +0000

Whatever happens in America, good or bad, I believe will be uniquely American. The European Isms be it National Socialism or Fascism do not translate across the Atlantic. This nation was founded on people escaping all that, and that notion is intensely personal for me; as grandchild of immigrants, who heard Slovak and Polish spoken by my grandparents, very early in life the idea of giving up Old Country ways was inculcated in my consciousness. The Old Country meant poverty, limited opportunities, class stratification, and immigrating to America meant leaving all that dry rot behind and becoming an American. It is the intellectual classes, as Tom Wolfe has pointed out, who remain compliant colonials, eager to please and emulate their European betters, and deny any form of American exceptionalism while they lecture us on American vulgarity. But I digress. To answer your question, no, Americans won’t mimic that European experience. However vehement or bloody our internecine struggles become, it will have an American improv to it.