Anyone who's worked in public relations or advertising, from my generation anyway, has to be somewhat familiar with how Hitler won an election in an "enlightened and cultivated" Germany. And how the Nazis managed to convince the public at large that all their problems were the fault of Jews, so it was OK to round them up and exterminate them.
The really, really shocking thing is... the nazi propaganda tactics worked. On a largely educated and sophisticated population. The same culture that had produced Einstein and Scubert, among dozens of others.
But what the democrats are doing in the current presidential campaign very literally takes a page out of Goebbel's play book. Goebbels, by the way, was the popeyed, chinless wonder who was in charge of nazi propaganda. (One description of him noted, "He looked like he'd just been goosed.") Not so sure he invented the propaganda techniques. I doubt he had the brains or imagination. After all, he was a nazi.
I've mentioned this before, but the "Big Lie" was one of the nazis' favorite things. You make up a real outrageous whopper. Many people probably won't believe it, or not the face of it as literal fact. However, it plants suspicions. Like, "Where there's that much smoke, there must be a fire." Or people just couldn't believe that someone as friendly and community-spirited as "Uncle Addie" would make up and spread such nasty rumors. I mean, good ol' Adolf was "one of us," he defended the workers, and was here to help us.
The opposition might try to fend off the verbal assauts, but then they're on the defensive, you know. I mean, by tis time, you wouldn't expect them to admit to anything. And if the perpetrators of the lies for some reason had to retract or "walk back" any of their "stories," as The Comrade would say, the damage has already been done. The filth tends to stick to its target somehow.
But Mitt Romney as a wild-eyed, bloodthirsty, heartless plutocrat? I don't know, I just can't see it. He has that sweet smile, you know. If he was as fiery and pitiless as the democrats suggest, he probably would have won the 2008 presidential election, no?
A lot of this published dem garbage -- like poor Joe Soptic, whose wife died 10 years after Joe and his company had any remote connection to Bain Capital -- is fabricated to demonize the opposition. And poor pathetic Joe is being exploited, apparently. He can't seem to come to grips with the fact that 1.) there wasn't anything he could do to save his wife; and 2.) that she should have gone to the doctor a lot sooner, while she was still working and had her own insurance -- which she did have, long after Joe's company closed.
I don't quite understand how Mitt Romney is supposed to be involved in that situation. First, Romney was no longer at Bain Capital when Joe's company was closed. Second, the company was closed five or six years before Joe's wife died. Bain had kept the company operating for five or six years before it shut down -- as part of a larger industry trend, by the way.
This particular Big Lie, like most others, is pretty much an insult to human intelligence. But it serves the larger purpose of nazi-like Big Lie propaganda -- to find a target you can demonize, someone you can blame for all the trouble in the world. Then lead the slavering pack to tear them apart and declare yourself a hero.
This is what the nazis did to the Jews -- and really, any political opponent. Something like 6 million Jews were killed by the nazis. But something like 11 million were exterminated all together at the death camps. These others were professors and other intellectuals who disagreed with der Furer. People with mental disorders -- or what were perceived to be mental disorders. People "suspected" of things like collaborating wtih the enemy -- ratted out by brown-nosing neighbors. And a lot of those who died were simply imported slave labor when the supply of Jews began running short. After all, the nazis were the master race; everyone else lived only to serve them.
And by the way, Hitler -- I mean Comrade Obama -- has more than once appealed to the public to report their friends and neighbors who criticize Obamacare, and now apparently he's also recruiting them to do something for his campaign. Can't remember what. This ratting on your neighbors thing was a tactic routinely used by nazis. And it got worse as they went along. Like if you wouldn't rat somone out, they'd kill members of your family and your friends until you either made something up or accepted a bullet yourself.
I think the Comrade, Axelrod, David Fluff, Stephanie Cutter, Valerie Jaret, Jay Carneybarker, Robert Gibbs, and the rest all are probably much more familiar with Mein Kampf than with the US Constitution. But that's just my own opinion. You can/should make up your own mind.
The thing is... what happened in Germany is happening right here, right now. Not necessarily in terms of targeting Jews (although there is a bit of that in the mix), but to overthrow the US government and make it the Comrade's private little kingdom. Not just for himsely, you understand. He's trying to create the marxist utopia. He thinks that's a good thing. Apparently he's never examined its failed experiments too closely.
And if you wonder "How could the Germans elect someone like Hitler?" look around you. After all, Germany had been something of a haven for Jews fleeing persecution in Russia and Poland. And the Germans had had Beethoven, Goethe, etc. etc. A very high culture. Very highly educated, polite and refined. And still, they swallowed Hitler's crap, held their noses and elected him. And then goose-stepped after him across Europe, raping, killing, looting.
If you like the Comrade -- maybe you can explain the attraction to me. I mean, seriously, what the hell are you thinking?
Save the Republic.
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