You’d almost think that Jeremiah Wright was the guy who shot up the Holocaust Museum. I’ll have some more thoughts on leftist/media stereotyping at PJM later this morning.
[Update late morning]
“Socialism represents the future of the west.”
So sayeth the “right wing” Jew hater.
[Bumped]
[Update after lunch]
It just keeps getting better. The guy may have been targetting that well-known bastion of leftist politics, The Weekly Standard. And of course, none of us should be shocked to learn that he was a journalism major…
This guy proves the point made here.
You can’t describe this guy as left/right. His views are not linear to somebody elses. He’s not left or right. He’s simply a hater.
And its also very interesting to me that people want to use this heinous act to suggest the DHS report a few months ago was accurate (as Fox News’ Shep Smith apparently tried to do). This guy wasn’t a Veteran returning from Gulf Wars, he was a WWII vet. He’s not right wing, as Rand previously points out; he supports socialism. He does hate the African American Democratic President, but he also hates Jews, just like the minister who baptized the President’s children. Von Braun was not recruited by anyone but himself. He’s a typical criminal thug, who used violence for his own personal wants. The DHS report neither stopped him or was looking for people like him.
I think that the context for that last quote is pretty important – he might have been stating that as a pessimitic statement. And of cource there is no link to the original text.
Duncan, he’s a Nazi. A “National Socialist.” Not a “right winger.”
In Australia, the center-right party is called the Liberals. The center-right victors of the recent EU elections was the suspiciously lefty sounding European People’s Party.
Don’t confuse populist branding in the context of post-monarchical Germany with ideology; Nazism was never about public ownership of the means of production; it was about the glory of war and getting rid of those who didn’t fit in the ethinic mainstream. Most German companies survived the war in private hands.
Quoth Hitler: ” I absolutely insist on protecting private property… we must encourage private initiative”.“
In Australia, the center-right party is called the Liberals.
That’s because in Europe and Australia, they have retained the original meaning of the word, unlike the US, where the collectivists hijacked it.
Nazism was never about public ownership of the means of production; it was about the glory of war and getting rid of those who didn’t fit in the ethinic mainstream. Most German companies survived the war in private hands.
In name only. The government exercised major control over them. The Nazi Party platform strongly resembled the Democrats in many respects, universal health care, progressive taxation, class envy, etc. Fascists were leftists — just a different flavor than the communists. Both of them were opposed to the “right wing” idea of individualism.
“I absolutely insist on protecting private property… we must encourage private initiative.“
I would also point out that Barack Obama tells similar lies, as evidenced by his actual policies and behavior.
Nazi ideology was all about conforming the individual’s behavior to the General Will, with Ein Fuhrer as the expression of that Will. So when Hitler spoke of private initiative, he spoke of people doing what he, Hitler, wanted them to do — preferably without having to be told explicitly.
Part of the indoctrination of the Hitler youth was to drill into them the idea that sacrifice for the greater glory of Germany was the ultimate form of altruism. One was not to think of their body, their mind, or the fruits of their productive energy as a means to improve the idea of the individual self. All of these things were to be done for the improvement of the greater good, for the German Fatherland.
One can replace nationalism with materialism, collectivism, and mysticism and see that they all generally represent the same thing but for different ends. However, in all the cases they are never about the idea that you do anything for the self. To do so for oneself is a selfish act that defies a “moral code”. Guilt is the device to which we feed ourselves this idea that it is wrong to do anything strictly in the interests of oneself. This is precisely how the German people were goaded into making war. They all knew deep down it wasn’t right. None were brave enough to say otherwise and projected this guilt by being complicit in striking down anyone else who did. Group think is precisely why collectivist ideologies are dangerous roads to row.
CHORUS:
Germany was having trouble
What a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore
Its former glory
Where, oh, where was he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me
LEAD TENOR STORMTROOPER:
And now it’s…
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Rhineland’s a fine land once more!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Watch out, Europe
We’re going on tour!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany…
CHORUS:
Look, it’s springtime
LEAD TENOR STORMTROOPER:
Winter for Poland and France
CHORUS AND STORMTROOPER:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
CHORUS:
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
Springtime! Springtime!
STORMTROOPER:
Come on, Germans
Go into your dance!
STORMTROOPER “ROLF”:
I was born in Dusseldorf und that is why they call me Rolf.
STORMTROOPER “MEL”:
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party!
ULLA:
The Fuhrer is coming, the Fuhrer is coming, the Fuhrer is coming!
STORMTROOPER #1:
Heil Hitler!
STORMTROOPER #2:
Heil Hitler!
LEAD TENOR STORMTROOPER:
Heil Hitler!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
ALL:
Heil Hitler!
ROGER:
Heil myself
Heil to me
I’m the kraut
Who’s out to change our history
Heil myself
Raise your hand
There’s no greater
Dictator in the land!
Everything I do, I do for you!
CHORUS:
Yes, you do!
ROGER:
If you’re looking for a war, here’s World War Two!
Heil myself
Raise your beer
CHORUS:
Jawohl!
ROGER:
Ev’ry hotsy-totsy Nazi stand and cheer
CHORUS:
Hooray!
Ev’ry hotsy-totsy Nazi…
ROGER:
Heil myself!
CHORUS:
Ev’ry hotsy-totsy Nazi…
ROGER:
Heil myself!
CHORUS:
Ev’ry hotsy-totsy Nazi…
ROGER:
…stand and cheer!
THE HEIL-LOs:
The Fuhrer is causing a furor!
He’s got those Russians on the run
You gotta love that wacky hun!
The Fuhrer is causing a furor
They can’t say “no” to his demands
They’re freaking out in foreign lands
He’s got the whole world in his hands
The Fuhrer is causing a furor!
ROGER:
I was just a paper hanger
No one more obscurer
Got a phone call from the Reichstag
Told me I was Fuhrer
Germany was blue
What, oh, what to do?
Hitched up my pants
And conquered France
Now Deutschland’s smiling through!
But it wasn’t always so easy…
It was 1932. Hindenburg was working the Big Room and I…
I was playing the lounge. And then I got my big break.
Somebody burned down the Reichstag. And, would you believe it?
They made me Chancellor. Chancellor!
It ain’t no myst’ry
If it’s politics or hist’ry
The thing you gotta know is
Ev’rything is show biz
Heil myself
Watch my show
I’m the German Ethel Merman
Dontcha know
We are crossing borders
The new world order is here
Make a great big smile
Ev’ryone sieg heil to me
Wonderful me!
And now it’s…
CHORUS:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Goose-step’s the new step today
ROGER:
Springtime!
Goose-steps!
CHORUS MEN:
Bombs falling from the skies again
CHORUS:
Deutschland is on the rise again
ROGER & CHORUS:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
U-boats are sailing once more
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
ROGER:
Means that…
CHORUS:
Soon we’ll be going…
ROGER:
We’ve got to be going…
CHORUS:
You know we’ll be going….
ROGER:
You bet we’ll be going…
ROGER & CHORUS:
You know we’ll be going to war!!