After the end of World War II, the Allies made a concerted attempt to stamp out Nazi ideology in Germany. This only lasted as long as it took them to realize that the Soviet Union was now a threat, resulting in the active recruitment and political “rehabilitation” of lower-level Nazis to fight the Red Menace by the United States and others. For a while, however, the effort was made, resulting in a modern Germany that at least makes an effort to prevent the recurrence of totalitarianism and fascismor other anti-democratic movements.
Will a similar effort be needed to cleanse the United States of so-called Neoconservative ideology after the Republicans are voted out of office and the “Project for a New American Century” is discredited?
2007-09-06
16:47:50
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As the child of parents who lived through Nazi Germany (my father was in the Luftwaffe, my mother was a shop girl until that was no longer a viable occupation, after which she spent the War trying to avoid being raped and killed), I've become alarmed by the creeping authoritanarianism of the U.S. in the years since 9/11. I see ominous parallels and I believe that the worst offenders have been the current Republican administration, aided by the gutlessness of the Democrats, even when they have held a majority in the House and the Senate. I no longer see this as a "right versus left" issue, but as an authoritarian/fascist versus democratic (in the sense of representative democracy) issue. Having been a life-long student of Nazi and Soviet history, I fear that the United States is heading down the road to totalitarianism--whatever name you want to give it.
2007-09-06
17:07:42 ·
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