printThe Argument From Hitler (TAFH) is so tired. Come to think of it, tired is a good word for the Republicans. Funny guy and host of Fox News’ late-night laugh “Red Eye” drives home the ludicrous nature of the TAFH by sealing his Gregalogues thus: “If you don’t agree with me, you’re worse than Hitler.” But then Rush Limbaugh is not smart enough to poke fun at himself. Economically, fascism and socialism are evil twins. The Republicans have more of the first in them; the Democrats more of the last. Both parties are made up of consummate statists. Ultimately Rush’s weary TAFH shuts off a more serious deconstruction of Democratic ideology. In any case, here goes Rush:
“Now what are the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi party in Germany? Well, the Nazis were against big business. They hated big business and, of course, we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism. They were insanely, irrationally against pollution. They were for two years mandatory voluntary service to Germany. They had a whole bunch of make-work projects to keep people working one of which was the Autobahn.
They were against cruelty and vivisection of animals but in the radical sense of devaluing human life, they banned smoking. They were totally against that. They were for abortion and euthanasia of the undesirables as we all know and they were for cradle-to-grave nationalized health care. I have always bristled when I hear people claim that conservatism gets close to Naziism. It is liberalism that’s the closest you can get to Naziism and socialism. It’s all bundled up under the socialist banner. There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy that’s being heralded by a Hitler-like logo.”
Amerika Uber Alles.
That’s odd. Having read William Manchester’s The Arms of Krupp in my twenties, I had believed all these years that the Nazis, or at least their leaders, were pretty cozy with big business. Even if the Nazis had hated big business, the Democrats don’t. Their recent federal subsidies for executive bonuses make that plain.
What’s this Astroturf thing? I could easily heap much more colorful insults on Pelosi. Has Astroturf become a code word for something? [Botox overdose, maybe?]
I’ve long noted the similarities between Americn democratic socialism and German “National Socialism”.
Wonderful. Anyone noticed that when you have chaps actually threatening to send the Jews to the gas all over again, everyone considers it bad form to draw attention to the parallel?
[A-Jad of Iran has threatened a nuclear Holocaust, not gas chambers.]