{"id":1880,"date":"2022-09-07T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/democrats-aping-national-socialists\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:03:23","slug":"democrats-aping-national-socialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/democrats-aping-national-socialists\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Democrats&#8217; Aping National Socialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02a308dee66c200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Biden - Hitler\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02a308dee66c200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02a308dee66c200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Biden - Hitler\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Excellent commentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2022\/09\/democrats_dangerously_copy_the_tactics_of_famous_fascists.html\">here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In two years, the Nazis went from being a fringe party to having a stranglehold on the German government and people. It was then that they unleashed their previously subdued anti-Semitism, from boycotts to book burnings to de facto discrimination to de jure separation (Nuremberg laws) and, finally, to the Final Solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">We can be almost sure that, if we asked any German in 1932 whether it would be okay to enslave and murder Jews, he would most certainly have said no. But within two years, Jews would officially be defined as an inferior race and have their political and economic freedoms curtailed. Within a decade, millions would be murdered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As Martin Niem\u00f6ller suggests in his 1946 poem \u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_they_came_...\">First they came<\/a><\/em>,\u201d the Nazis were able to accomplish their goals by taking baby steps of oppression with little discernible pushback from a willfully gullible public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">So it is that we find ourselves in America in 2022 with fascism ascendant. And unlike what the media would want you to believe, it\u2019s not Donald Trump who\u2019s leading the parade. For just over two years, we\u2019ve seen the evil of fascism take hold as it\u2019s never held sway before. Consider the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In the summer of 2020, Democrats rained hell down on America by allowing, encouraging, and funding urban terrorists who destroyed property, attacked citizens and the police, and killed dozens of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In 2020 and beyond, despite years of watching Democrats assail election integrity, anyone who questioned the highly unlikely outcome of the 2020 election was branded as an anti-democratic conspiracy nut and accused of supporting insurrection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The riot that occurred on January 6, 2021, was labeled an \u201cinsurrection\u201d and hundreds of citizens who had been welcomed into the US Capital or standing on its grounds were arrested, labeled as terrorists, and thrown in solitary confinement for months without charge or bail. At the same time, among the crowd were&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2021\/12\/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">provocateurs<\/a>&#0160;in&#0160;whom the FBI was suspiciously uninterested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">By politicizing the Department of Justice, the Biden administration and other Democrats have used the \u201cinsurrection\u201d pretense to harass, intimidate, arrest, and jail Trump\u2019s supporters, members of his administration, and his legal team. This harassment eventually led to the unprecedented step of the Justice Department and the FBI raiding the home of the former president and future presidential contender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Beginning in 2020, in response to COVID, primarily Democrat-run states and municipalities across the country instituted draconian lockdown edicts that eviscerated individual rights, destroyed small businesses, and ostracized or arrested individuals who resisted. Simultaneously teachers\u2019 unions nationwide forced school shutdowns, leading to extraordinary declines in student learning and dramatic increases in youth depression. Those seen questioning the efficacy of or damage from such lockdowns and shutdowns were unconstitutionally muzzled when the administration covertly worked with social media companies to silence and de-platform them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Biden administration issued mandates for rapidly developed vaccines of dubious efficacy and unknown danger; then coerced private enterprises to enforce them. Questioning that policy or non-acquiescence with it was seen as a proxy for opposition to the regime, so the government and allied businesses threatened and destroyed livelihoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">When Americans stood up to school boards, complaining about their children being exposed to sexualization in schools or being accused of being racists because of the color of their skin, Biden\u2019s Justice Department branded them as terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Biden administration\u2019s threatening, intimidating, and jailing of its opposition set the backdrop for Joe Biden\u2019s&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/politics\/biden-speech-transcript.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extraordinary speech<\/a>&#0160;on September 1, when he stated, \u201c<em>Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic<\/em>.\u201d This was not a campaign speech; this was the President officially addressing American citizens\u2026and calling 70 million of them terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This brings us back to Germany in 1932. Just as the Nazis used their toehold on power to take total control of the government and methodically use that government first to slander, then marginalize and, finally, to cleave from society the hated Jews who were said to be less than human, the Democrats first used their control over the media, local governments, and myriad alphabet agencies to take over the federal government and are using that government to slander, marginalize, and cleave from society the millions of Americans who disagree with their leftist agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">These are not just idle words: It\u2019s Joe Biden, the head of the American government, with all the resources at its disposal, telling 70+ million Americans they are a threat to the nation. And in case anyone missed the point, after having just passed a law to hire 87,000 armed IRS agents, the&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/athena-thorne\/2022\/08\/29\/obama-era-tea-party-targeter-appointed-to-create-irs-office-overseeing-87000-new-agents-n1624976\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">administration hired Nikole Flax<\/a>, who worked with Lois Lerner at the IRS when it was targeting conservatives during the Obama administration, to run the new division. Joe Biden and the Democrats have just created the largest armed police force in the nation and set as its leader someone associated with the targeting of their political opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Joe Biden\u2019s words are not just words\u2026they\u2019re threats. The leader of the government paints his political opponents as extremists and then exhorts his supporters to \u201cconfront\u201d them. \u201c<em>We\u2019re all called by duty and conscience to confront extremists who put their own pursuit of power above all else<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">None of this means that by 2025 we\u2019ll have concentration camps filled with emaciated conservatives, but it\u2019s not like there\u2019s no precedent. Still, unlike the Germans after 1932, Americans can do something about this, making their voices heard and changing the course of history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This November there will be elections nationwide; most will have a Democrat on one side and a Republican on the other. In every single case, whether for dog catcher or senator, conservatives should pull the GOP lever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The GOP is imperfect, and its candidates are sometimes questionable, but at the end of the day, they\u2019re not Democrats. Republicans are not the party that\u2019s taking the country down the totalitarian path that wrought so much damage and spilled so much blood last century. No, Republicans may be flawed, but voting for them will likely not be fatal to the Republic. The same can\u2019t be said about Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent commentary here: In two years, the Nazis went from being a fringe party to having a stranglehold on the German government and people. It was then that they unleashed their previously subdued anti-Semitism, from boycotts to book burnings to de facto discrimination to de jure separation (Nuremberg laws) and, finally, to the Final Solution. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/democrats-aping-national-socialists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Democrats&#8217; Aping National Socialists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,319,165,29,30,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-fascism","category-political-nihilism","category-political-ponerology","category-political-psychology","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}