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Venture capitalist Tom Perkins compared liberals' push to reduce inequality in the United States to Nazi Germany's war on Jews.
In a letter to the editor published in The Wall Street Journal Perkins, a founding member of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, asks whether a "progressive Kristallnacht" is coming. Perkins's letter is in response to an editorial on speech codes at American colleges.
"Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich," Perkins wrote in the letter to the editor.
He continued that he perceives a "a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tom-perkins-liberal-war-one-percent-kristallnacht
Demit
(11,238 posts)El_Johns
(1,805 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)A thinly veiled rant about class warfare. At least they're not using the term now, they're just comparing it to the worst of the early Nazis.
Isn't it funny that it's only class warfare when the working class fights back? As far as I'm concerned, I have no designs on the lives of these thugs. I just want to expropriate most of their money and wealth and redistribute it. Now if they want to fight this violently, all bets are off. The amount of violence involved in any socialist revolution will be in direct proportion to the resistance of the ruling class.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)lefthandedlefty
(281 posts)Nazi`s convinced the public that the Jews were the cause of all of Germanies problems,the GOP is trying to convince the population of this country that all our problems are the fault of Democrats and I think they might be succeeding.I was driving the other day and lying Mike Huckabee came on the radio and before he was done Democrats were the cause of the deer overpopulation.I think he was even trying to blame Obamacare for it.