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Wendy Pardue's avatar

How does one explain to the willfully ignorant that they are ignorant, when they’re so ignorant that they don’t know that they’re ignorant?

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Marsha's avatar

Thank you for saying what the media won’t. I pegged this asshole as a Nazi during his first campaign ( didn’t know much of him before except a mouthy game show guy). That was 2016. Started saying it out loud the following year. I got nods. I naively thought we had seen the last of him by 2020. Little did I know. Has any Nazi led their people in power when they were out of power ? Two assassination attempts and a record number of felonies, then back in power? He and Elonka are the very definition of white supremists. I’m curious if Americans can seek asylum to a real democracy…?

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Shoshana's avatar

They may be nothing without Nazi indoctrination but Rick Wilson's The Pink Mafia - shows that the Republican party- senators and Congressmen are largely gay men. Not a problem unless you are massively outspoken anti gay and a pedophile...

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WTH Is Going On?! Chris Berrie's avatar

Walter, you just inspired me to make a “Hitler’s Nazi Agenda” poster to put on Facebook where I have 1000 followers, Substack and Blue Sky. Hopefully it will get amplified so more people can recognize that project 2025 is just the recycled Nazi playbook.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

send me the poster too and I'll promote it as well!

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WTH Is Going On?! Chris Berrie's avatar

See my following comment

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WTH Is Going On?! Chris Berrie's avatar

Can you find parallels between Hitler’s Nazi agenda and Trump’s agenda? Keep in mind, that although Hitler promised many improvements in the lives of Aryans, those benefits were not truly realized by average German people as a whole.

The 25 Points of Hitler's Nazi Party

1. We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples.

2. We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated.

3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population.

4. Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countryman.

5. Those who are not citizens must live in Germany as foreigners and must be subject to the law of aliens.

6. The right to choose the government and determine the laws of the State shall belong only to citizens. We therefore demand that no public office, of whatever nature, whether in the central government, the province, or the municipality, shall be held by anyone who is not a citizen.

We wage war against the corrupt parliamentary administration whereby men are appointed to posts by favor of the party without regard to character and fitness.

7. We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.

8. Any further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.

9. All citizens must possess equal rights and duties.

10. The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all.

Therefore we demand:

11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.

12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.

13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.

14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.

15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.

16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.

17. We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.

18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.

19. We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law.

20. In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.

21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.

22. We demand the abolition of the regular army and the creation of a national (folk) army.

23. We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press. In order to make possible the creation of a German press, we demand:

(a) All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens.

(b) Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State. They must not be published in the German language.

(c) All financial interests in or in any way affecting German newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich.

Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved.

24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race.

The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the pinciple:

COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD

25. In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.

The formation of professional committees and of committees representing the several estates of the realm, to ensure that the laws promulgated by the central authority shall be carried out by the federal states.

The leaders of the party undertake to promote the execution of the foregoing points at all costs, if necessary at the sacrifice of their own lives.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

That's the GOP message in a nutshell, sadly.

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Rosalind 🍁's avatar

Peripherally participating in the burning down of the country that promises them the dream but constantly snatches it away again, this is the only power many maga will ever know, the power to destroy.

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Sarah3000's avatar

I've seen several members of the GOP do the sieg hail Nazi salute including Elon Musk and Steve Bannon who are Trump's closest advisors in rooms full of people. In every case, the audience cheered. I don't believe they are shy about their intentions. Fox News and other cable media networks are complicit in normalizing this type of behavior. I don't believe they are embarrassed about it.

Trump has cowed Congress and now they are going after the judges in the Justice Department. They are absolutely following the Nazi playbook.

Unfortunately, I think the great majority of MAGAs are too stupid to realize it. I don't have faith that they will figure things out. It's the progressives and liberals who need to right the ship. Otherwise we're doomed.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

You're absolutely right Sarah. The only thing I can't figure out is why they act like nazis, but they still object when we call them out on it. They don't like the label. That gives me hope, at least, that the word remains a rallying cry for Americans. I hope the sleeping giant has been awakened and we'll start to see some accountability. Stay safe out there and thanks for your thoughts!

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Lisa’s Last Words's avatar

absolutely, Walter💯

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Lisa’s Last Words's avatar

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👀🇺🇸🇺🇸

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p.j. melton's avatar

Thank you for existing. Thank you for sharing this planet with me.

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Walter Rhein's avatar

Thank you P.J.!

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Karen's avatar

It is always pertinent to name any Evil for what it is: Evil.. or Nazi..or whatever. Why? Because that defuses the power of it and gives the power to those who recognize the Evil for its Evil. That’s how you fight ignorance. Almost everyone, educated or undereducated understands the ramifications of Evil. So let’s just call Elon Musk Evil. And let’s call Trump Evil. Let’s empower MAGA with that knowing. We are the only ones that can do that and we should. MAGA understand Evil: their lives have been dessicated and destroyed by it and we should realize that.

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Ellesse_R's avatar

Thanks for some laughs 😂.

About "But nazis aren't making a comeback. Pretty soon they're going to crawl back into their bunkers and die."

Only if we make them!

(Door #1. Make a comeback [though they never really left]

Door #2. Make them crawl back etc.).

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Cheryl in Seattle's avatar

Ooh, good post this morning--had me laughing out loud! Although it's all tragic (and true), sometimes a good laugh gets you through.

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Greg Sanford's avatar

We all voted for the collective national stupidity which got us an evil king.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Again, I agree.

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