re: #420 ShaunP

I’ve gotta say; I think we’re on the same side of this argument, but the Nazi meme is really absurd. Calling “nazi” at everything minimizes how evil nazi germany really was…

Then please read the Nuremberg rally speech in its entirety and tell me how there are not many similarities in the rhetoric and the psychology played on.

It is not absurd. It is exactly the same play but with different actors and different cultural icons.

Do you really think the Nazis referred to the Wiemar Republic in terms much different than we hear out of the tea parties? Do you really think that the basic meme of fear and hatred from perceived loss of power to maintain a mythical homeland that never existed is not being targeted at minority groups who are to blame now for taking that homeland vision away?

Open you eyes. I said that this stuff sounds like the early Nazis - not the later Nazis when they were in power.