2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTed Cruz is historically ignorant.
He spoke on the Senate floor about Neville Chamberlain (who was a Conservative, by the way) seeking to appease Hitler "in 1940."
In 1940 Great Britain was at war with Germany, and nobody but a tiny sliver of English fascists were saying anything about appeasing Hitler. Cruz was obviously thinking about the Munich conference, but that was two years earlier.
I know it may seem like a small point, but getting details like this wrong is to me an indication of a shallow mind. You don't get up on the floor of the United States Senate and compare your opponents to appeasers of Nazism without first getting your facts straight.
More generally, I often find that those most willing to draw analogies between some feature of contemporary American politics and German Nazism are the most ignorant of the actual history.
valerief
(53,235 posts)samsingh
(17,571 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)They recognize each other by the sound of the wind passing through their ears....
Tikki
Make7
(8,543 posts)thucythucy
(7,986 posts)begin a story on Pearl Harbor Day by saying, "Today marks the anniversary of that Day of Infamy, December 7, 1942..."
No shit, I actually heard this on TV.
Worst. howler. ever.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)are typically the most fascist assholes in the room demanding others do it their way or the highway.
Just sayin'
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Filibuster Harry
(666 posts)jenmito
(37,326 posts)He used that story to say "the people," like Sam, HATE the ACA, when the moral of the story is once Sam TRIED green eggs and ham he LIKED it.
ETA-maybe Cruz KNOWS the people (who he claims all hate the ACA) will LIKE it once they try it, which is why he doesn't want to let them TRY it.
Blue Idaho
(4,988 posts)That psychopathic nut case is delusional and deserves all the shit that's going to fall on his head when the smoke from this latest republican induced disaster clears.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)and a traitor!