I was watching the news today and it suddenly struck me that today's Republican party is disturbingly reminiscent of the old Nazi party of WWII. I dediced to google the question and found that many other folks have had the same thought.
If you take a moment to consider the similarities, it is extremely concerning that the Republican Party has come to stand for, in essence, the same positions on most subjects as held by the Nazis, with some modern adjustments. For example, instead of hating and rallying against Jews, the modern Republicans hate and rally against primarily Blacks, Hispanics, foreigners, homosexuals, and Women, among other groups. Of course another major difference is that today outright racial or sex discrimination and hate is criminalized activity, so therefore modern Republican-Nazis need to make all public statements absent statements of hate, but if you look past their deceptive public statements, the policies they create and promote embody and encourage the discrimination and multiple disparities which have come to define today's racial and socioeconomic divide and which were part and parcel of Nazi discrimination circa 1940.
I am not the only one who has noted this disturbing correlation. Here are some other articles by fellow bloggers or writers who have point out these similarities:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sarah%20Ibarruri/21
"1) The scapegoating of, and prohibition of unions;
2) Allowing the confiscation, removal and arrest based only on suspicion of acts 'against the
state;'the torture of mega-millions without trials;
3) Allowing corporations to use prisoners as free or nearly-free labor;
4) The torture and murder of anyone socialist, Communist, or in disagreement with right
wing fascism;
5) The fooling of the population through propaganda, as well as deceptively named groups;
6) The promotion of certain groups (an uber-race, or an uber-group) to the exclusion of others;
7) The murder of mega-millions without trials;
8) A contempt for democracy (Hitler said Democracy was corrupt and soft, while Bush said being a dictator would be easier than being president);
9) The association of patriotic symbols as propaganda (so that anyone in disagreement with the regime could be scapegoated as 'unpatriotic');
10) The scapegoating of the poor, the colored, the unusual, the disabled, the helpless, the handicapped, the gay, the feeble-minded;
11) The use of religion to promote regime and thought control - xenophobia (God is seen as Republican, and German Nazis had belt buckles that read, “Gott Mitt Uns” (God is with us)); a love of war;
12) The use of distractions (Reichstag fire used to suspend liberties. GW Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq, so he could attack the country);
13) A love of radio propagated propaganda (nowadays we have that as well, hosted by many Joseph Goebbels);a worship of authoritarians (strong, sociopathic leaders feigning patriotism, who are blindly followed by their followers, even when the truth is exposed);
14) No compassion; and,
15) The abolishment of abortion. "
Some of the below articles note the same correlations but others have additional similarities.
http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/03/06/10-similarities-between-ultra-conservative-republicans-and-nazis/
http://aborovkoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/does-the-tea-party-the-new-nazi/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654503/pg1
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654503/pg1
http://anglachelis.hubpages.com/hub/Are-The-Republicans-Fascist
http://authorbob.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazi-tea-party.html
I think that last one is my favorite.
Ok, so what does this mean?
So, the correlation is pretty clear. The Nazi party and today's Republican party stand for the same thing: hatred, racial and class warfare, war, loss of liberty, loss of democracy, tyranny. Their mode today is to promote hateful policies while denying any hate. They promote laws to suppress voting while denying they are doing any such thing. In fact, they argue they are solving a problem with voter fraud despite no evidence of any significant voter fraud anywhere.
These are not the views of radical right-wing extremists, this is the position of VIRTUALLY ALL of the republicans in or seeking public office today. This is also the position of ALEC, the secret ultraconservative group that creates model Nazi-ish legislation to promote thought the state legislatures around the country (notably, voter suppression laws, the "stand-your-ground" law in Florida, the Citizen's United decision, and many others).
If you are a Republican, are you also a Nazi? Don't answer too fast. You'd better think about it. I ask you - nay, I DARE you - to respond with your justification for how you can continue to support a party whose ideology is most similar to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Lenin and is responsible for the worst mass murders in recorded history. Had you lived in 1939 Germany, would you have been a Nazi then? Would you have voted for Hitler? I think that if you have been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh, you surely would have been brainwashed by Adolf Hitler then. If you hate Blacks and Hispanics today, you surely would have hated Jews then. If you are willing to dictate to a woman what she can or cannot do with her body (i.e. abortion) today, I suspect you would have approved forced sterilization of Jews and the retarded then, and you would have undoubedly supported the Nazi ban on abortion then as well. If you think that God is on your side today, you surely would have believed Him on your side then as well - that is the nature of believing in God. I don't know any religion which holds a belief in God but also believes that God is NOT on their side.
So, I challenge you. I challenge you to either stay in the Republican party and admit that you are really a modern-day Nazi, or renounce your connection to the Republican party and prove that you are not.
