There's no punch line. It's a question.
2007-09-27
05:51:05
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Angelique
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If you bothered to look up the definition and history of liberalism--easy to do if you've got a computer--you would discover that the principals of classical liberalism support capitalism and the creation of wealth. Liberalism is not socialism; for one thing, it requires taxation of the wealthy.
Nazism, according to Wikipedia "consisted of a loose collection of positions focused on those held to blame for Germany's defeat and weakness: anti-parliamentarism, ethnic nationalism, racism, collectivism,[7] eugenics, antisemitism (and) opposition to economic and political liberalism,[8]"
Bush's policies are not identical to Nazism but they have several obvious parallels, including the attacks on illegal immigrants, who are our new scapegoats.
After World War Two, any American high school kid knew exactly what propaganda was. Unfortunately, we seem to have forgotten.
Now, "education" consists of inculcating knee-jerk reactions to certain words, such as conservative, liberal, feminist.
2007-09-27
06:14:00 ·
update #1
I don't need to look it up, since I've studied the history of the Third Reich in some depth, for the past year.
I strongly recommend The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer.
2007-09-27
06:17:15 ·
update #2