Posted on 8/7/2009, 1:30:19 AM by jazminerose
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided” - Konrad Adenauer, First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of West Germany.
I can remember the feeling I had when he spoke. At last, I said, here’s somebody who can get us out of this mess. (Campbell, Susan Bartoletti. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 2005, Pg. 19. )
He was so convincing on the speaker’s platform and appeared to be so sincere in what he said that the majority of his listeners were ready to believe almost anything good about him because they wanted to believe it.
As time went on, it became clear that he thought of himself as the Messiah.
He was the greatest orator Germany had ever known. Most amazing of all: he did it without a teleprompter. The comparisons between Hitler and Obama, while offensive to many, were inevitable. They both had the benefit of oratory skills and could deliver a stirring speech with minimal substance. They pitched the same ideology, “Everything must change!”
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The basic difference between communism and fascism is the approach to business and trade that can produce income for the government. Many see red China as a fascist country rather than the communist system they claim. The soviet union was a more pure form of socialism that kept everyone outside of the political game in poverty.
They are both left wing totalitarian dictatorships that oppress individual freedom and give all control to the centralized government.
Some of the DEMs of 40 years ago actually had class. This new generation is genuinely vulgar.
Right. Classical liberalism is nothing like what we see today.
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