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| quote: | Originally posted by DR86
Actually no they aren't. If you want to look at the situation from a purely political point of view, they are closer than you think. Hitler was a fascist, the extreme right. Though Bush claims to be a compassionate conservative which would place him between moderate and conservative on the right side of the spectrum, he's policies actually equate him to being a Contemporary Neo-Conservative.
Basically the next step, albeit a big one, on the right side of the spectrum is fascism. |
Yeah, that's just part of it.
I'd be willing to bet that most of the people on this board don't even know what a Neo-Con is, or at least if they do they don't know what principles they stand for.
Anyway, if anyone here even bothered to do more than just look at the pictures from those two Time Magazine links that I posted, they would have realized that during Hitlers first few years in power he was adored by the unsuspecting Germans.
| quote: | | Fuhrer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth--or as close to the tooth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world. |
| quote: | | His political career began in 1919 when he became Member No. 7 of the midget German Labor Party. Discovering his powers of oratory, Hitler soon became the party's leader, changed its name to the National Socialist German Labor Party (...). Outlawed in many German districts, the National Socialist Party nevertheless climbed steadily in membership. Time-honored Tammany Hall methods of handing out many small favors were combined with rowdy terrorism and lurid, patriotic propaganda. The picture of a mystic, abstemious, charismatic Fuhrer was assiduously cultivated. |
| quote: | | What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to the German people in that time left civilized men and women aghast. Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide or worse. Free speech and free assembly are anachronisms. The reputations of the once-vaunted German centres of learning have vanished. Education has been reduced to a National Socialist catechism. |
Okay, so now we're seeing curtails of our civil liberties, [link], (Patriot Act), "Free Speech Zones" which limit free speech [link] at Republican organized events, an ever mounting National Debt while the richest people in America get tax cuts. I mean come on, this is only a small sampling of the things that have happened within the last four years under Bush and his Neo-Con buddies. Do you people really want to see what else they have in store for us if he gets reelected? I sure don't!
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(not that I condone Hitler in any way)
