Is the GOP claiming it is impossible for an American to behave like a Nazi

[wurzel]

That is a dangerously stupid idea. Every country has people in it capable of behaving that way. Lynching is in living memory in this country. Ever take a look at our jails? Remember Mai Lia? We have used napalm in Iraq. We have probably killed and maimed more people in more different countries than any other nation in history. Do the idiots running this country seriously believe there is some kind of gene that makes Americans more humane than any other people? Does that include the Mafia and the KKK and the convicted guards from that Iraqi prison? Do we have no crimes, rape, and violence here because we are Americans? Without proper leadership our soldiers are as capable of atrocities as any other group of armed men. Unless we understand this, what downward spiral of the reputation of our contry will continue.

[mike_c]

1. my country, right or-- well, it's always right....

Same shit, different day.

[samdogmom]

2. They already have!

Who are they fooling? Some of us can see the forest for the trees!

[silverweb]

3. Actually...

I think they're just more concerned with calling such behavior what it really is.

The reTHUGs are all about playing word games, ya know.

[tk2kewl]

4. not to mention genocide committed against native Americans

I'd say that qualifies as a Nazi-like history

[wurzel]

6. Well I wanted to stick to recent history

But you are perfectly correct. Before that was the civil war and what a butchery that was.

[stepnw1f]

5. Because They Sure Act Like Nazis

Fuck 'em... really!

[AlienGirl]

7. Yes...

It is easier to believe that the Nazis were some kind of inhuman, demonic monsters whose evil was absolutely unique to one time and place. Most people (not just Republicans) would rather believe this than accept that they were pretty much ordinary people who bought into some Really Bad Ideas and consequently did Really Bad Things.

Tucker

[wurzel]

9. And some really bad leaders.

[C_U_L8R]

8. The Republicans Condone Torture.

The Republicans Condone The Torture at Guantanamo.
The Republicans Ordered The Torture at Guantanamo.
The Republicans Are, In Fact, Nazis
No Apology Neccesary.

[BurtWorm]

10. "Nazi" is too loaded a word. Many who lost someone in the Holocaust

think it trivializes Nazism to equate it with Republicanism. They do have a point.

Republicanism is bad enough without having to hyperbolize it.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Likewise...

lets not be afraid to call evil by it's name.


Not meaning to lay on the hyperbole or trivialize history... but geez, how much more like nazis do these right wing fascists need to be before we can actually call 'em nazis.

[BurtWorm]

12. Why call them Nazis? They're Republicans, Bushists, even fascists.

Nazis were members of the German National Socialist Party and its wannabe offshoots all over the world. They're fascists, yes. Not Nazis.

[wurzel]

14. We are not talking about "Republicanism". We are talking about behavior

It is equally dangerous to suggest we have to get to the point of a Holocaust to recognize a trend toward Nazism. Germans did not start out the way they ended. It took nearly twenty years to get from the beer halls to the concentration camps. Step by step. From accepting the prostitution of their legal system, corruption of their politics, relentless propaganda, and excusing brutal behavior by their military.

[BurtWorm]

15. Then call it fascism, if you want.

Nazism is something else.

[wurzel]

16. Sorry, we are talking at crossed purposes.

I have no objections to the word facism, and prefer it. But I was using "Nazi", because of the Durbin flap. You point about using the Nazi is right on, and Durbin would not have had so much trouble, and have been more accurate had he used "Fascist".

[leesa]

13. Ask Bush, his Dad financed the Nazi war machine until forced to stop

10 months after war was declared. They are using the Nazi play book as we speak.