DeMint: America is Where Germany Was Before WWII.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gave a short talk and Q&A at at the National Press Club about his book “Saving Freedom.” DeMint told a room of around 100 people about a conversation he’d had with an Iranian immigrant who was panicking about the surge of government spending and control under President Obama and the Democrats. Americans should listen to immigrants like her, said DeMint.

They understand socialism. They understand tyrants. But none of us have ever had it here. We don’t even know what it looks like. Part of what we’re trying to do in “Saving Freedom” is just show that where we are, we’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela. People become more dependent on the government so that they’re easy to manipulate. And they keep voting for more government because that’s where their security is. When our immigrants get here, they’re worried, because they see it happening here.

DeMint worried that it was the “eleventh hour” for freedom, but he disputed a question from a man who wondered if America was ripe for another revolution. “The reason I’m convinced we can do this in a civilized way is that I’ve seen, on a number of issues, that when people get informed and want to change their government, the government will change.”

http://washingtonindependent.com/50152/demint-america-is-where-germany-was-before-world-war-ii

[muntrv]

1. Uh Sen. Demented? Obama was ELECTED president. Hitler was appointed

chancellor.

[Xipe Totec]

2. You know, it would be healthy to crack a history book open now and again...

US is like Germany before World War II?

In what fucking way?

Did we lose some war like WWI, have to sue for peace?

Are we burdened with restoration payments?

What?!

:shrug:

[rurallib]

7. DeMint gets his history from the experts- Limbaugh, Hannity, Rove.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. He's not the only one. The comments at the Washington Independent are awful.

[rurallib]

10. wasn't it '1984' where someone stated

"He that controls the past, controls the future."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. The particular psychological defense mechanism is called "projection"

attributing your own faults to other people.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Jim's a little late to the party, isn't he?

Why wasn't he making the Germany comparisons when the grandson of Hitler's banker stole an election and then blew up the Reichstag World Trade Center??

[sarah553807]

5. This all makes sense now

Thank you senator demint:crazy:

[rucky]

6. Hold on, lemme load my money in wheelbarrow so I can buy bread.

[jody]

9. LOL, Jews occupy more elected and appointed seats in U.S. government than in Germany. n/t

[baldguy]

11. A relatively liberal & progressive govt threatened by RW extremists?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic

[ellisonz]

12. Fascist.

[Colobo]

13. Jim DeMint knows a lot about Nazis... I wonder why...

[ShadowLiberal]

14. Psst Demint, Hitler blamed the Jews for all their problems, the GOP blames hispanics & gays for ours

The democrats aren't scapegoating whole races or religions for causing all of America's problems, that the GOP's doing. Hitler was most famous for his horrible treatment of those scapegoat groups, see the pattern? If America is becoming like Germany, then the GOP is becoming the Nazi party.

[Better Believe It]

15. The Senator knows as much about German history as Sarah Palin

Nothing.

"we’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy"

When Hitler took power the Nazi regime destroyed the Social Democratic party. Thousands of their members and leaders were either executed or placed in prison camps were many of them died.