MaggieMae
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- Apr 3, 2009
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You'll have to educate me on Glenn Beck since I don't watch his program. You obviously do since you know so much about him.
In any case, your history lesson is sound. What you forgot to mention (and may not be aware of) is how, say, the Nazis were allowed to come to power in the first place. Fascism and socialism have common roots in central economic planning and the power of the state over the individual. That's what progressives believe. You see, they created the environment for the truly evil to come to power (like Hitler). It doesn't happen overnight and may take a generation to desensitize and prepare the general population for a takeover, but the inevitable outcome is nothing like what the progressives had hoped for. Look around. It's happening in the US now.
May I suggest you read the works of Alexis de Tocqueville. We have history repeating itself and we are letting it happen.
I apologize for the Beck crack. I'll make you a deal: you stop being condescending to me about "learning history", I'll stop with the Beck cracks.
But you're completely wrong about your analysis. It did happen "overnight". The German people weren't "desensitized" to stronger government, they DEMANDED it. The Nazi Party took power based on the failures of the Weimar Republic, a small, non-statist, ineffectual government.
I think they were demanding....."CHANGE".
And? Every new administration campaigns on bringing "change," even in modern American politics. If they didn't want CHANGE, they wouldn't run at all.
It's shocking how so many so-called "Americans" these days are quick to side with the motives of the real enemy, past and present, if they can make some sort of convoluted point that equates to something being done by the Obama Administration. It's gotten that sick.