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Yesterday's Nazis and today's national socialist left
American Thinker ^ | 12/7/17 | Richard Rail

Posted on 12/07/2017 2:38:05 AM PST by markomalley

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1 posted on 12/07/2017 2:38:05 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Reading Bloom’s book, “The Closing of the American Mind” was my eye-opening moment. The 60 minute interview in 92 of Bill Clinton and Hillary ended my voting Democrat for life, because of exceptional gut instincts (and I even lived in California), but this book gave me the ability “to know” “why?”. I had to reread it and study philosophy to fully understand the brilliant book, and I never, ever regret the time and energy it took.


2 posted on 12/07/2017 2:57:30 AM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: markomalley

“Perhaps the best primer on Nazism remains Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”

Shirer’s work covers the nuts an bolts of the Nazi rise, but not the why - for that read “The Psychology of Mass Fascism” by Wilhelm Reich. This work seem a particularly apt read given today’s youth highly favoring socialism and seemingly, in particular, a form of Nazism.


3 posted on 12/07/2017 3:02:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: markomalley

Yesterday’s Communists and Nazi Socialists are today’s Socialist Left in more ways than one. For instance, common denominators of all three movements are in Genesis 3:5, Matthew 4:9, John 8:44, Romans 1:30, and Romans 1:25 and by extension Dan. 11:38 because they ‘worship’ the creative energy (evolution) that is their ‘father.’


4 posted on 12/07/2017 3:09:12 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: markomalley

My view is much simpler:

All forms of Totalitarianism are Evil!

Progressive
Socialist
Marxist
Fascist
Communist
Dictator
Islamist
Bureaucrap

All Evil!

There is not point in trying to debate the left as to definition of each form of Totalitarianism. They are all the same ultimately. Repression, Misery, Theft, Destruction.


5 posted on 12/07/2017 3:46:34 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: PIF

I also recommend The True Believer by Eric Hoffer.


6 posted on 12/07/2017 3:57:39 AM PST by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: markomalley

This is a very interesting article but there is one main difference between the nazis and the current crop of leftists. Nazis were fiercely nationalistic, today’s left is fiercely anti-nationalistic. The nazis loved the fatherland, the American left HATES America.


7 posted on 12/07/2017 4:24:06 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: markomalley
Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union was actually a Socialist Civil War- Hitler's National Socialists (who believed in racial supremacy and despised those who weren't from that class) vs. Stalin's World Socialists (those who believed in proletariat supremacy and despised anyone in the middle or upper class).

You have to hand it to Hitler- he's the only person in history to give Communists the moral high ground.

8 posted on 12/07/2017 4:48:02 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Texas Fossil

>>There is not point in trying to debate the left as to definition of each form of Totalitarianism. They are all the same ultimately. Repression, Misery, Theft, Destruction.<<

You left out Democrat.


9 posted on 12/07/2017 4:49:54 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

>>This is a very interesting article but there is one main difference between the nazis and the current crop of leftists. Nazis were fiercely nationalistic, today’s left is fiercely anti-nationalistic.<<

Which difference is precisely why it’s much more accurate to describe leftists (Democrats) as communists.


10 posted on 12/07/2017 4:57:17 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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Nazis were fiercely nationalistic, today’s left is fiercely anti-nationalistic.

I would say that the nazis were nationalistic in their socialism, yes, but wanted world domination. The antifas wants socialism to go global. A distinction without a difference really.

11 posted on 12/07/2017 5:03:26 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Yes.

On the one hand, I think it is important to always insist that the Nazis are leftwing collectivists. They were. They are. Stalin was also a nationalist and a socialist. His big rival was Trotsky who was not a nationalist.

But the people we see around us today are heirs to Trotsky and his Internationalist approach to socialism. That’s what Globalism is.

Collectivists do not recognize individual rights nor indeed the value of the individual. The Globalists simply extend that further and do not even recognize the value of sovereign nations.


12 posted on 12/07/2017 5:08:27 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: markomalley

Good article


13 posted on 12/07/2017 5:17:33 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: markomalley
After reading this today I planned to post but you beat me to the punch.

Having lived in Germany for a long time now, I believe I have come to realize how/why the German people followed Hitler and the National Socialists into “the madness”.

I also have an “arms-length” perch to watch “the madness” in the US. Watching the 60’s generation grasp the levers of power in the media and university and public school has truly been a disaster for our republic,

I have also watched the rise of the “moral majority” and TEA Party and finally the election of DJT. His “in you face” response to the liberals and, especially the PC crowd is a breath of fresh air.

Now I am watching the USSC to see if we have some reversals of the unconstitutional ruling (no basis in the constitution nor common law) that will reverse the damage and, best of all, drive the loons on the left up a tree.

FReep regards to all.

14 posted on 12/07/2017 5:23:00 AM PST by lowbuck (The Blue Card (US Passport) Don't leave home without it.)
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To: markomalley

The Left always tells us that the Nazis weren’t real socialists, which is exactly the point. Socialism is unsustainable. It’s just a shiny thing they use to recruit the useful idiots. They never intend to actually do it.


15 posted on 12/07/2017 5:27:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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Excerpt that comments on Soros....

“One shakes one’s head that the éminence grise bankrolling much leftist activity in America is Jewish George Soros, who literally helped the original Nazis do their vile work against Jews. Soros pays thugs, rioters, and riot-organizers just as corporate sponsors paid Hitler’s Brown Shirts.”


16 posted on 12/07/2017 5:33:13 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: markomalley
The word "Nazi" keeps coming up, mostly from the Alt-Left but occasionally from the Alt-Right as the two verbally smear each other in hopes that something ugly will stick.

Which side has the most in common with the intolerant totalitarian socialists in question? If our public schools taught history accurately instead of focusing on revisionist stories that fit the Ctrl-Left narrative, that would be an easy one for us all to answer.

17 posted on 12/07/2017 5:38:04 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: savagesusie

That one and Simulacra and Simulation are very important modern day books to me.


18 posted on 12/07/2017 6:35:57 AM PST by deadrock
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To: PIF

And another interesting parallel between today’s leftists and yesterday’s Nazis is that “Caucasians are the new Jews!”

The Leftist/Collectivist consistently push for STATE-SANCTIONED DISCRIMINATION against Caucasians and they resent the success of Caucasians.

True, there are no Nazi gas chambers (yet), but the vitriol from the left against Caucasians, especially on college campuses - is scary.

The neo-racist American Left and Antifas are of the same cloth as the Nazis with a mix of every ingredient of the NAZI party, just in varying degrees.


19 posted on 12/07/2017 8:55:35 AM PST by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: deadrock

Yes. There are many brilliant books out there that the average person will never ever attempt to read and understand, which is our problem today: No intellectual stimulation at all for most people now days.

It is too hard to exercise the Mind which is needed for a life well-lived, just as much or more so than the physical body needs exercise to function normally. Excellence takes tremendous amount of work and time. People are drowning in meaningless “information” which is time consuming and removes one from living authentically, who just stare at screens and absorb the proper programming and dopamine for their irrational lives.


20 posted on 12/07/2017 9:36:15 AM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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