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epitaphforhope commented on the blog post Targeted Killing Program Emblematic of How Disgraceful America is Ten Years After 9/11
great post.
Perhaps we should require of presidential candidates that they explain how Hitler was able to rise to power in interwar, post-financial crash Germany.
One answer: National Socialism (Nazism), a movement of people (German citizens) who began to be motivated very nationalistically and with a racist passion (against Jewish “blood”), who also strongly opposed “socialism”, promoted the death penalty, and favored the erosion of civil liberties for strong central power.
Remind anyone of Bush’s 8 years? The conservative German elite – especially big entrepeneurs (especially in armaments) and bankers – supported Hitler and his populist movement (rising rapidly since the publication of Mein Kampf in 1922, while the Socialist Party (SPD) steadily lost votes – by the last elections in November 1932, SPD had 24% and the NSDAP 33% (the Communist Party had 17% and the Center/Catholic Party had 12%). Hitler, remember, was not elected as Chancellor in January 1933; he was appointed, with the support of the banking and military industries.
Jon Stewart may joke about Perry becoming president; I don’t think it’s all that funny.
As the law professor Obama appointed his economics team and refused to go after potentially criminal elements in both the (investment) banking and the military sectors, I figured he must have skipped out on his interwar German history in school. (And yes, perhaps interwar US history as well.)
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