This is Adolf Hitler, Chancellor and dictator of Germany from 1933-1945.
Hank, note some of the major differences between the two men. Hitler shares your ethnic background for starters and led one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history. He was elected to power by people who looked and thought like you.
One of the more annoying traits of conservafools is to paint liberals as harboring an affinity for totalitarianism when it is you conservafools who not only admire dictators, you role model them in your political behavior and governance style.
See Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio for examples.
Adolf Hitler is often used by you so called 'Christian' conservatives as an example of what happens toa society when traditional Christian moral and social values are abandoned. Inreality, one of the reasons why Hitler was so popular with and was elected with widespread support of conservativeChristians in Germanywas precisely because he promised to restore traditional morality. The former Catholic altar boy opposedabortion, homosexuality, pornography, and just about everything elseconservative Christians complained were ruining modern Germany.
Hmm, sounds like a certain 21st century political party in the USA But I digress, Hank.
Hitler was an outstanding speaker and made speeches with lines like this.:
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]...I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroyChristianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ...We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in thetheater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has enteredinto our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.
- Adolf Hitler, quoted in: The Speechesof Adolf Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942),pg. 871-872
“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schoolshave no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without areligious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training andreligion must be derived from faith.”
Adolf Hitler, in 26 April 1933,from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordantof 1933.
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience,Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, andlove of the Fatherland.
- Message, signed Hitler, painted on walls of concentration camps; Life, August21, 1939
Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children andher home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.- Adolf Hitler, quoted in Lucy Komisar, TheNew Feminism
The fight against syphilis demands a fight againstprostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, generalviews among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The firstprerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is thefacilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation. In late marriagealone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as youlike, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damnedill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the'image' of God.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1Chapter 10
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against thepoisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like ahothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare servedup in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to denythat this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth...Theater,art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansedof all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of amoral, political, and cultural idea.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1Chapter 10
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia andAfrica in order to win new followers for their doctrine -- an activity whichcan boast but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedanfaith in particular -- right here in Europe they lose millions and millions ofinward adherents who either are alien to all religious life or simply go theirown ways. The consequences, particularly from a moral point of view, are notfavorable.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1Chapter 10
A Volkisch statemust therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuousdefilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which iscalled upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway betweenman and ape.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Vol. 2Chapter 2
We have not seen his political opponents like John Boehner or Eric Cantor arrested and dragged off to jail. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts haven't been shut down to form Obama Youth groups.
The Tea Klux Klan rallies in DC weren't broken up by the police.
We have not had Fox Noise and your right wing radio loudmouths shut down for broadcasting lies 24-7-365 about the POTUS, nor was Orly Taitz arrested for pimping that birther nonsense.
And oh yeah, the Republicans got control of the House no thanks to the Tea Klux Klan in the last midterm election.
So where is this mysterious Obama dictatorship that you paranoid right wingers speak of?.
I submit the USA was closer to it under the mispresidency of George W. Bush, in which we disgustingly met the 14 characteristics for a fascist state.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. (CHECK)
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. (CHECK)
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. (CHECK)
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. (CHECK)
5. Rampant sexism. (CHECK)
6. A controlled mass media. (CHECK)
7. Obsession with national security. (CHECK)
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together. (CHECK)
9. Power of corporations protected. (CHECK)
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated. (CHECK)
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts. (CHECK)
12. Obsession with crime and punishment. (CHECK)
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption. (CHECK)
14. Fraudulent elections. (CHECK)
Hank, your problem and the conservative movement's problem is that the 44th president of the United States got elected in a landslide, and y'all have a major problem with the fact that he's African American.on top of that. You also have a major problem with the fact he was successfully rolling back every wrongheaded policy you fools put in place during the Bush years.
NAACP founder W.E.B DuBois called it over a century ago when he said. "Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."
If you really wish to know what life was like under the Nazi dictatorship, get thee hence to a Holocaust museum near you or the national one in Washington DC across the street from the Smithsonian.
You conservafools reek of bigotry, hatred, paranoia and ignorance and your unhinged racist hatred of President Obama is off the charts.
Hank, you and your right wing friends are entitled to your political allegiances and opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts, especially when they don't square with the historical record.