Posted on 11/16/2012 7:03:49 AM PST by fivecatsandadog
I used to wonder how the German people of the early-1930s could blindly support such a horrible man.
But I think I’ve seen firsthand how it happened with Obama and his supporters.
Blind devotion is a dangerous thing.
History will repeat.
Mr. Kershaw calls himself a historian, and proffers *THIS*? He is as much an employer of propaganda as the late Shickelgruber was. And *BOTH* are/were left wing, to boot!
the infowarrior
“Nor can his extraordinary impact on the German people in these years be accounted for satisfactorily by seeing in Hitler’s personal Weltanschauung (notably in his obsessions with the ‘Jewish Question’ and with Lebensraum) a mirror image of the motivation of Nazism’s mass following.”
I thought it said Lesbianism. Need more coffee.
“History will repeat.”
Yes, it will. Obama voters don’t know history so they are doomed to repeat it.
Possibly, but this is bassackwards. Instead of liquidating a minority it’s pandering to a minority(s) and instead of strengthening the economy it’s weakening the economy. Wheras Hitlers’ strengthening played to his increasing popularity, the reverse is true here. A economic crash will turn his acolytes off real fast.
The question is: How long can the enemedia carry the water?
“Need more coffee.”
I know just the stuff to fix you up!
The approved Coffee Representative will be by shortly to have you fill out the disclaimer forms absolving us of any wrongdoing incase you suffer, say, full body possession and demonic utterances from the stuff.
*Rummages around for said forms*
my German mother is almost hysterical at what is happening here. Before the war, she worked for a Family who had joined the NAZI Party and the Father became an officer. She was told she had to join the party to keep her job. She didn’t. She had no papers was arrested twice. The first time she was sent to a work farm, from which she escaped. The second, she was in France and escaped out the bathroom window. To this day, she is still defiant about ‘paperwork’.
She didn’t know what was coming. But we can recognize a pattern developing. I don’t believe that Obama is ‘the One’. It will be someone who comes after him, who will promise the ‘fix’ the mess he’s made. Prepare accordingly.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
The National Socialists certainly opposed the 'Stalinist' Communists, but they were hardly enemies of Marxist theory. Strong central government control over means of production and government regulated distribution of rewards based upon a government perceived 'fairness' were intrinsic to the Nazi message. Neither free-market nor capitalist.
So, despite opposition to the 'Stalinist' Communists and Social Democrats, the Nazi's were merely a third socialist alternative.
Saw a guy with a bunch of Obama stickerson his car the other day.
If I dared have any kind of political stickers on my car, it would be vandalised.
Blind devotion to a messianic personality of either right or left wing politically, is indeed a horrible thing for a democratic republic.
During the 2008 election I noticed the similarity between the adoration of the masses for Obama, and a nearly identical devotion to Hitler as recorded by the visual media of their times. In particular, I noticed that the faces of women in both eras were in awe of both men.
I sometimes wonder - Will our current time in history ever been looked at with unclouded eyes? And, if so, how will the press be viewed?
They were fighting for the same hearts and minds.
“If anything, the nazis used things like manufactured consent to appear more popular than they were.”
Well? Sound familiar?
Axelrod calls it "astroturfing".
Remember at the time, radio and newsreels were the new media, the Nazis were the first to realize the tremendous power this new media had to sway public opinion. Newspapers were the old technology, and the Nazis knew they had to break the monopoly of the newspapers (which they considered to be in the hands of Jews), in disseminating information. They understood the power of symbolism, and radio and newsreels could convey this in a much more powerful way than newspapers ever could.
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