I find all of this talk about Nazis and brainwashing to be kind of over the top.
There are legitimate comparisons of the
mindset of the Republicans to the
mindset of the Nazis. The authoritarianism, xenophobia, hatred of the French, and adherence to a strict set of propagandist rhetoric are all similar traits, I understand that.
The Republicans are all fairly normal people and the Nazis were as well, but what the Nazis
did makes the Republicans look like pikers.
I can't get in the heads of Republicans to the extent where I can know
for sure if they have fantasies of extermination, holocaust and world domination. I suspect that they don't.
I do know however, that they all lack basic empathy to varying degrees. Some Republicans are indistinguishable from Democrats in that respect.
The German people became Nazis through some very precarious circumstances. The French and English needed help paying back their loans to the U.S. and the United States told them to suck it up and take it out of Germany's ass (We were GONNA get our money back plus interest... one way or another). Well That is exactly what Germany did and the German economy simply tanked and inflation shot through the roof. German waiters would take the uneaten food off of the plates of their customers finished plates and put it in their pockets to feed their family. People were carrying a whole wheelbarrow full of old marks to get a loaf of bread.
Those economic conditions led to the Stab-In-The-Back legend. The "legend" states that there were members of the public who deliberately sabotaged the war effort. The epic poem about Siegfrieid being stabbed in the back by Hagen Von Tronje was attatched to the "legend" to penetrate the psyche of the German public. Jewish Germans had been at the forefront of the anti-war and labor rights movements and were subsequently scapegoated into the villians of the "legend". The Spring Offensive was
supposedly thwarted by Jewish led strikes in the armament industry. Newspapers like the
Deutsche Tageszeitung spurred on these fictional tales of treachery and betrayal.
It has everything to do with the shock doctrine (changes to the political and social systems pushed through while the public is reacting to disasters and or upheavals) and less to do with brainwashing which was in the earliest stages of development at that time.
with respect to star, i don't think the dems are the ones that annointed rush the leader of the party, he and the upper echelon of the republican party have been doing that constantly over the last 20 yrs. the dems just threw a spotlight on it.
Thank you good sir!!!!
No. Limbaugh isn't brainwashed. Neither are any of the other talking heads (including that delusional twit, Michael Moore).
And just how is Michael Moore a delusional twit?