This is chilling - the icy ring of truth from Joseph

[The Doctor.]

"This ability to believe is rather weak in some circles, above all in those with money and education. They may trust more in pure cold reason than a glowing idealistic heart. Our so-called intellectuals do not like to hear this, but it is true anyway. They know so much that in the end they do not know what to do with their wisdom. They can see the past, but not much of the present, and nothing at all of the future. Their imagination is insufficient to deal with a distant goal in a way such that one already thinks it achieved.

They were also unable to believe in the victory of National Socialism while the National Socialist movement was still fighting for power. They are as little able today to believe in the greatness of our national German future. They perceive only what they can see, but not what is happening, and what will happen.

That is why their carping criticisms generally focus on laughable trivialities. Whenever some unavoidable difficulty pops up, the kind of thing that always happens, they are immediately inclined to doubt everything and to throw the baby out with the bath water. To them difficulties are not there to be mastered, rather to be surrendered to." - Joseph Goebbles, New Years Eve 1938

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb16.htm

That's right - all that fancy 'research' and 'education' keeps people from following 'their hearts' and 'their faith'.
Those 'intellectuals' keep telling us something is wrong - but those are just trivialities.

Fascism is upon us.

[cavanaghjam]

1. I've never heard ignorance

described as a "glowing idealistic heart" before. I, for one, have great faith in reason.

[1monster]

2. "The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it."

- Dr. Joseph Mengele

Perhaps we are helpless in the face of evil because we are not evil enough to fight them on their own ground (and perhaps not evil enought to understand just how evil they are). Unfortunately, that seems to be the only place that they can be defeated.

[knowbody0]

3. the cold cold truth

[sandnsea]

9. Here's an interesting read

I found the Hitler is better than Blum, Stalin, leftist anarchists interesting. Anarchists burning Catholic churches in Spain; kind of like the threat put out by the Republicans, liberals are going to ban the Bible. When you hear some of the hate for religion and what's happened in the past, I guess you can see where the Bush is better than a leftist comes from. Although we see where that line of reasoning got us before. Difficult to figure out just how to beat these people without creating backlash that keeps them in power.

http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch19.htm

[indigobusiness]

4. Chilling, indeed.

"They perceive only what they can see, but not what is happening, and what will happen."

[glitch]

5. Sounds like a fellow who believes in creating his own realities.

Now who does he remind me of?

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

6. I read this book about Albert Speers and an interesting anecdote

was when he showed his father the architectural models for all their plans for the glorious buildings for their thousand year reign. This was during the thirties and he was very proud of all their incredible plans. His father was an architect too and he took one look at everything and said something like, "You've all gone completely mad!" and walked out.

It's funny how some Germans and most of the world could see how power-mad they were, but the ones caught up in it were so blind. Now it seems like the Republicans are power-mad and blind, but we Democrats here and the whole rest of the world can see how far they have gone from reality.

[peacetalksforall]

7. Rhetoric fairy tale clandestine

What we hear is decades old sayings about our glorious founding fathers and the brilliant thought that went into the constitution and bill of rights making the U.S. like no other country on earth.

What we get today is a carefully gleaned and mixed version of nazism, fascism, totalitarianism, colonialism, communism. Who thought it all up? Name those leaders so that we can put a painting of them working out the details in the Library of Congress.

[Rose Siding]

8. He's now passing as a WH aide...

snip>
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1088069