From Flanders fields, warnings about Europe’s crisis
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
These closing lines of John McCrae’s poem have haunted many a student of literature. History, too: Voices from the graves in Flanders fields, where “poppies blow/Between the crosses, row by row,” seem to admonish us about the human cost of war McCrae saw 97 years ago, in the tragically misnamed “war to end all wars.”
They are more haunting still for a visitor to the cemeteries in Flanders fields, in the Ardennes, at Normandy. And these are just the American memorials, just a few of them.
“Never again” is the feeling that overcomes a visitor to these gravesites. It is also the mantra that for 55 years has led the peoples of Belgium, France, Germany and beyond to band together and extricate themselves from millennia of war. World War I did not “end all wars” in Western Europe, but economic cooperation, beginning with the free trade of coal and steel in 1957, has. So far.
As another Memorial Day approaches, though, it is with haunting memories that a visitor to those gravesites might look back across the pond, and see creeping reasons for worry.
The first glance is to Greece, whose fiscal profligacy has brought it again to the brink of default and, perhaps, an exit from the euro currency. Bailouts from more sound nations, chiefly Germany, are all that have kept these developments at bay the past 27 months.
Now, there’s anger. The Greeks feel betrayed by their government for agreeing to the bailouts, and resentful of the austerity the Germans demanded in exchange. This month they voted in large numbers against the two centrist parties, and for a collection of radicals, Communists and neo-Nazis who speak with a nationalist tone — anathema to the European Union.
The Germans also feel betrayed: It’s well-documented that Athens lied about its finances when applying to join the euro. And they are resentful of being handed the check after spending a decade getting their own finances in order.
Just as there is the threat of financial contagion spreading from Greece to more consequential economies — Italy, Spain, even France — there is the risk these nations will also point the finger at Berlin. Voters in these countries have already lashed out at their political establishments and are not unfamiliar with nationalism.
History suggests the prospect of an isolated, indignant Germany is not to be relished.
There may also be some inauspicious timing on America’s part. Seventy years of guarding against remilitarization in Europe may wind down as Washington grapples with the realities of its own profligacy and, perhaps, looks to withdraw finally from the theater. A subsequent rearmament in Europe, even if in the name of defense, would seem only natural.
For now, there is reason to believe the worst scenarios can still be avoided. It is a long march from a Greek exit from the euro to a divided, rearmed Europe. And for all the dark clouds on the horizon, many here and there still hear those voices in Flanders fields.
But do not forget that the admonition preceding the warning not to “break faith with us who die” reflects a different sentiment, one that exists yet in human nature:
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you with failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
Even in Flanders fields.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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stranger in a strange land
May 25th, 2012
7:51 pm
Ragnar @ 621 – always appreciate your comments, and I’m still trying to make myself feel better that Europe is worse off than the US (but it ain’t happening so far)
Michael H. Smith
May 25th, 2012
7:52 pm
lbb,
When governments are preoccupied with creating entitlements through income and wealth redistribution rather than focusing its attention on creating opportunities that allows an economic climate to occur which is conducive to the private sector creating jobs the result is always a zero sum game where all become equally poor and living in austerity.
I’ll take my chances on a liberated capitalist market distributing the wealth and incomes without a fascist government picking the winners and losers by means of anti-business anti-competitive regulations.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 25th, 2012
7:58 pm
As would any thinking person, MHS. Well said.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 25th, 2012
7:59 pm
Any thinking person who doesn’t mind working a little bit, that it. That would exclude Obozo’s base.
Hillbilly D
May 25th, 2012
8:00 pm
Since the subject of WW I has come up, this is an interesting talk by Adam Hochschild about his book “To End All Wars”. It’s about 45 minutes.
Like a lot of wars, it could’ve been prevented and without it and its aftermath, there likely would’ve been no WW II.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ToEndA
md
May 25th, 2012
8:10 pm
“Like a lot of wars, it could’ve been prevented and without it and its aftermath, there likely would’ve been no WW II.”
Maybe not the WW2 that we know, but quite possibly one anyway…..it takes a lot less to start them than it does to end them.
The little kookoo in North Korea or some stray group in Pakistan have the means to get things started…….we just have to hope they don’t.
Not to mention the ME radicals that have no problem whatsoever strapping little bombs on themselves and going boom…….one can only imagine what a few of those guys would do with a bigger boom……….
Michael H. Smith
May 25th, 2012
8:14 pm
World War I did not “end all wars” in Western Europe, but economic cooperation, beginning with the free trade of coal and steel in 1957, has. So far.
Another interesting item is how or what was said to have actually ended WWI: Influenza.
One other point you’ve brought up Kyle is economic cooperation by means of steel and coal trade. What happened about that same time-frame in this country that has been attributed to destroying the U.S. steel industry’s former greatness?
Boortz done a wonderful job in laying out the cause of this calamity.
md
May 25th, 2012
8:31 pm
Looks like the Bravos decided not to wait till Sept to collapse this year……..
Michael H. Smith
May 25th, 2012
8:33 pm
This one is for you brucie wilcox a.k.a. JWD…
Steel strike of 1959
The steel strike of 1959 was a 1959 labor union strike by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) against major steel-making companies in the United States.
The strike occurred over management’s demand that the union give up a contract clause which limited management’s ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery which would result in reduced hours or numbers of employees. The strike’s effects persuaded President Dwight D. Eisenhower to invoke the back-to-work provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. The union sued to have the Act declared unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court upheld the law.[1]
The union eventually retained the contract clause and won minimal wage increases. On the other hand, the strike led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in U.S. history, which replaced the domestic steel industry in the long run.[2]….
Impact of the strike
In the long run, the strike devastated the American steel industry. More than 85 percent of U.S. steel production had been shut down for almost four months. Hungry for steel, American industries began importing steel from foreign sources. Steel imports had been negligible prior to 1959. But during the strike, basic U.S. industries found Japanese and Korean steel to be less costly than American steel, even after accounting for importation costs. The sudden shift toward imported steel set in motion a series of events which led to the gradual decline of the American steel industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_strike_of_1959
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 25th, 2012
8:56 pm
obozo thinks he’s a spendthrift and the Eurotrash think they’ve tried austerity, one must wonder who feeds and bathes them in their hollowed out, clueless little world.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 25th, 2012
9:14 pm
“The strike occurred over management’s demand that the union give up a contract clause which limited management’s ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery”
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Just another example of Democrats standing in the way of real progress.
Michael H. Smith
May 25th, 2012
9:15 pm
One more CORRECTION for you brucie, as to your claim about the WWI non-existent unpleasantness of the Socialist Democratic Party of Germany.
Causes of World War I…
Domestic political factors:
German domestic politics
Left wing parties, especially the “Social Democratic Party of Germany” (SPD) made large gains in the 1912 German election. German government at the time was still dominated by the Prussian Junkers who feared the rise of these left wing parties. Fritz Fischer famously argued that they deliberately sought an external war to distract the population and whip up patriotic support for the government.[15] Russia was in the midst of a large scale military build-up and reform that they completed in 1916-17.
Other authors argue that German conservatives were ambivalent about a war, worrying that losing a war would have disastrous consequences, and even a successful war might alienate the population if it were lengthy or difficult.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I
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Yeah those old rightwing conservatives were ambivalent about getting involved in a war the leftwing Socialist Democratic Party of Germany wanted to pursue.
Where’s a real NAZI when you need one, right?
Dusty
May 25th, 2012
9:26 pm
Come on, Braves. It is getting late. We love you. Keep going”!!!
janet
May 25th, 2012
9:30 pm
The Bush/ Cheney war in Iraq didnot give the Egyptians their free elections. The internet, an educated but underemployed youth, the inspiration of Tunisia and the election of Barack Obama in 2008 sent a loud and clear message to every nation where there was no freedom, that if America the richest, most powerful nation on Earth can elect a black man against all odds, then anything is possible in any country. I have travelled to many of these countries and I can tell you that is what I hear even 4 years later. It is quite remarkable to me how absolutely ignorant Americans are of the international importance and impact the election of President Obama has had around the globe. Obama 2012.
You libs
May 25th, 2012
9:32 pm
I’m so scared I’m going to vote for someone who says they’ll protect me from that scary old future. Let’s go back to those good old (for a very few among us) Reagan years.
I don’t want to think about what we COULD accomplish, I want to think about what bad stuff COULD happen.
Kyle has helped me a lot in that respect.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 25th, 2012
9:37 pm
I’m so scared I’m going to vote for someone who says they’ll protect me from that scary old future.
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Yep, the America-hating Marxist who is running against capitalism is your guy since you need someone to guarantee you a “fair shot”, whatever that is. Folks who can cut it in the real economy will be voting for Romney, however.
td
May 25th, 2012
9:43 pm
You libs
May 25th, 2012
9:32 pm
Your entire post makes absolutely no sense at all. What are you talking about?
Michael H. Smith
May 25th, 2012
9:46 pm
What I’m hearing in America is, NoMo’Years! NoMo’bama!
Return America to prosperity – Romney 2012
Dusty
May 25th, 2012
9:52 pm
Janet,
American are pleased that citizens around the glode have discovered that Americans are as open minded and equal as we claim to be.
Besides being open minded and equal, we can also tell the difference between good leadership and mediocre. I think “world citizens” will see more American clarity in the next election. We demand good leadership and will go about getting it the next time we vote.
Dusty
May 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
Uh oh…..I think the Braves are in trouble. They have a CHRISTHIAN pitching against JESUS!
Well, to be exact, it is Christhian Martinez pitching against Jesus Flores.
Hmm had me worried there for a moment. Not to mention the score! Go Braves!!
yuzeyurbrane
May 25th, 2012
10:40 pm
Kyle, nice try at trying to convey big thoughts. It shot right over the heads of most of your regular bloggers. Are you sure you want to keep company with these intellectually challenged pseudo-conservatives?
Michael H. Smith
May 25th, 2012
11:34 pm
Good job broaching many subject areas of importance Kyle , without being consumed or constrained by the cellophane of a “mere poetic wrapping”. Most of your intelligent blog followers, which just happen to be conservatives, possess the ability to focus on the entirety of your writings and not entirely on a wordsmiths’ embellishment as these leftwingers do, for their myopic biased perspective that they would like impose upon the rest of us to avoid any public talk about the real issues by attempting to limit the depth and breadth of your actual blog content.
Whoosh… these mental midgets… Kyle, we really do need better hecklers.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
May 26th, 2012
12:46 am
“and the foolish and failed austerity attempts..”
I see MaryV is continuing the already discredited “Europe tried austerity and it failed” meme.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 26th, 2012
6:31 am
World English Dictionary
carny or carney 1 (ˈkɑːnɪ)
— vb , -nies , -nying , -nied , -neys , -neying , -neyed
informal ( Brit ) to coax or cajole or act in a wheedling manner
— n , pl -nies
1. short for carnival
2. a person who works in a carnival
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 26th, 2012
6:52 am
Economic meltdowns, global warming, and no end to Guantanamo: How the world is disappointed in Obama’s performance (and his broken promises)
Obama reached zenith of popularity at 2008 Berlin rally
However, other countries now disappointed after expectations not met in President’s first term
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
In a world weary of war and economic crises, and concerned about global climate change, the consensus is that President Obama has not lived up to the lofty expectations that surrounded his 2008 election and Nobel Peace Prize a year later.
Many in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America were also taken aback by his support for gay marriage, a taboo subject among religious conservatives.
In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Obama speak, there’s disappointment that he hasn’t kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay
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The Middle East and northern Africa are looking to newly democratic Iraq and wondering why they have (or had) to put up with their own authoritarian regimes. Egypt and others decided to do something about it, and are now freeing themselves.
Thank you, President George Walker Bush, for making this all possible.
Michael H. Smith
May 26th, 2012
7:50 am
Europe hasn’t begun to undergo genuine austerity. When they do honestly try austerity we in the U.S. will not escape their fiscal difficulties unscathed.
However, we do have one get out of Marxist/Socialist Hell card left that we can play to trump the worst of European austerity’s financial dealings. But we will require a new card dealer at the card table in the oval office who knows how to play the game of Capitalist Hold’em and where&when to go all in!
The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers
May 26th, 2012
8:08 am
janet
May 25th, 2012
9:30 pm
Janet,
I’m sure the Germans felt the same way about Hitler. Keep drinking the cool-aid.
DawgDad
May 26th, 2012
8:25 am
Everyone in the Western world is telling Germany what Germany should be doing to solve everyone else’s economic woes. Fortunately, Germany is too mature and responsible to just tell the leeches to take a hike, but patience may be wearing thin.
A few years back (around 2005) I had the opportunity to visit Germany and speak with some people in the heartland. They were of a conservative economic mind the Tea Party here would be proud to embrace. Greece today, Spain tomorrow, California on the horizon. Who will pay the bill? Not the free spenders.
Did anyone notice Illinois just cut $1.6 BILLION from medicaid? Causing quite a stir up there.
marko
May 26th, 2012
8:35 am
Benito Mussolini once stated that Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is the merger of government and corporate powers. Fascism is a right wing philosophy. Communism is a left wing philosophy. Both are fairly harmless ideas until the government decides that they are the only correct ideas a person should be allowed to possess. At that point you wind up with a totalitarian state. Totalitarian states are always corrupt and abusive. Ideas on the other hand are harmless. We should be allowed to believe any damn fool thing we like. The harm comes when we insist that our fool ideas are the only correct ideas. No one should be allowed to take away another man’s ice cream simply because God told you he selected an evil flavor. God hates chocolate ice cream. That’s why he turned it brown.
My ice cream example may seem silly to some, but is it really that much different than amending the constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. A government with the power to define marriage could just as easily define it as the union of one man and one man. or one woman and and another woman. How would you like if an all powerful government decided to tell you who you could or could not marry? Isn’t that Reverend Moon’s job?
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 26th, 2012
8:52 am
Interesting thought from a WSJ letter to the editor…Germany should be the country to withdraw from the Eurozone–then the debtor nations that are left would have no choice but austerity, since the folks currently paying the bills would be gone.
DawgDad
May 26th, 2012
8:56 am
marko: Whoa. “A government with the power to define marriage could just as easily define it as . . .”
OUR government DOES have the power to define marriage, at least in a legal sense. It has done so, and up to this point it’s been one man and one woman, with some emerging exceptions on a State-by-State basis. I know when I got married I was required to have a license from the State, and a blood test.
Connecting Fascism and Right Wing is totally unimportant and misses the point (it’s not all that important to distinguish Communism is Left Wing, either), which is ANY system whereby Government directs enterprise is inherently an infringment on liberty and extremely dangerous. There are no absolutes in the real world; sensible regulation is often warranted and in times of war or extreme duress liberty may necessarily need to be infringed. The whole point of America is to establish and preserve Liberty and Freedom, a concept we seem to be losing sight of.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
May 26th, 2012
9:08 am
Whether it’s communism or fascism, the common thread is more and more government control over people.
There is one political party in America that seeks more government, that shares the goals of both the communists and the fascists.
Democrats.
jconservative
May 26th, 2012
9:14 am
Here is a list of the EU countries. To me the most notable absences are Norway and Switzerland.
Austria -Belgium- Bulgaria -Cyprus -Czech Republic -Denmark -Estonia -Finland -France -Germany
Greece -Hungary- Ireland -Italy- Latvia -Lithuania -Luxembourg- Malta – Netherlands -Poland Portugal -Romania -Slovakia – Slovenia – Spain -Sweden -United Kingdom
Michael H. Smith
May 26th, 2012
9:26 am
Fascism, Socialism and Communism all share the same Marxist root.
Marxism is the evil root that grew a wicked tree bearing the evil fruits of Fascism, Socialism and Communism.
marko
May 26th, 2012
10:02 am
Most families at one time or another face hard times. The job that used to easily make car, and house payments, suddenly got out sourced. Now forget the house note and the car payment. You have to figure out how to put food on the table.
Over the years, I’ve experienced a couple bouts of vanishing paycheck. There is a silver lining. You get a crash course in what’s really important. What’s really important? Air comes to mind. Most of would die in a couple of minutes without it. After air, consider water, most folks go room temperature in three to five day’s without it. Next, food, food is good. you can live a month or more without food, but I don’t think you’ll enjoy it.
One important thing most folks forget is memory. How do you forget memory? We evolved from creatures that remembered where the leopard hid on the way to the water hole. If we forgot that simple fact, we didn’t evolve. we deposited our defective genes in petrified leopard poop to be discovered by modern anthropologist eons latter.
This brings me to budget battle part two. Speaker Boehner has promised us a thrilling sequel to the last budget debate. Some of you may remember that the president promised to exchange ten dollars in spending cuts for a dollar of new revenue. At the time , Boehner seemed receptive to the idea, but the Tea Party faithful shot the idea down. Anyone remember the debt crisis? Rember our credit rating being down graded? Looking forward to asininely stupid part two? If we’re really lucky, the Tea Party bunch will take the short cut to the water hole.
Old Timer
May 26th, 2012
10:05 am
If you are old enough to remember when Memorial Day was Decoration Day and the reason, you will also remember that history repeats itself. Unfortunately our current government leadership doesn’t remember.
marko
May 26th, 2012
10:08 am
Dawgdad, isn’t that pretty much what i said?
md
May 26th, 2012
10:47 am
“Most families at one time or another face hard times. The job that used to easily make car, and house payments, suddenly got out sourced. Now forget the house note and the car payment. You have to figure out how to put food on the table. ”
Except in days gone by, folks knew what they could afford and saved up to buy what they couldn’t…..that house and that car are part of the problem today……..all borrowed money.
Jeremy
May 26th, 2012
11:31 am
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/sen-majority-leader-once-regular-sports-handicappi/nPFLc/
Can you please out these hypocrites? I am a conservative but the GA House and Senate is a toilet boil. Time to flush
Rafe Hollister- trying to save the Choom Gang
May 26th, 2012
11:32 am
marko
Some of you may remember that the president promised to exchange ten dollars in spending cuts for a dollar of new revenue.
The leopard has tricked us before, Marko, hence our reluctance to fall for the same trap again. Libs can’t seem to get it through their head that if you want revenue enhancement, first prove you are serious about cutting the insane spending. Once, we see some results, then if the money is DEDICATED to the debt alone, maybe. But, giving more revenue for Oblama to give to Solyndra like boondoogles is not going to happen.
It is the same scenario as immigration reform. Close the dang borders before you open your mouth about doing anything else with immigration reform.
Libs want to make everything complicated and obtuse like the 1700 pages Oblamacare bill, so they can hide their dirty work in the reams of paper. Do the obvious stuff first then go from there.
@@
May 26th, 2012
11:44 am
An excellent read for anyone willing to take the time.
At the time of the Wilson presidency, progressives did not view the exercise of state power and the violation of individual rights as a war-time exception to be set aside in times of peace. To the contrary, Herbert Croly (founding editor of the New Republic), John Dewey (father of progressive education), Walter Lippman (perhaps the century’s most influential political writer), Richard Ely (founder of the American Economic Association) and many others saw war as an opportunity to rid the country of classical liberalism and the doctrine of laissez faire.
In fact, the primary domestic objective of progressives was to create in peacetime what Wilson had accomplished during war. They were able to do so a little more than a decade later. Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Wilson, and when he led Democrats back to the White House in 1932 he brought with him an army of intellectuals and bureaucrats who shared the progressive-era vision. Indeed, most of the “alphabet soup” of agencies set up during the Great Depression were continuations of various boards and committees set up during World War I.
Perhaps because of World War II, the revelations of all the gory details of the Nazi Holocaust, and the subsequent Cold War, it quickly became inconvenient, if not acutely embarrassing, for historians and other commentators to remind people of the state of intellectual relations before hostilities broke out. At that time, it was commonplace for intellectuals on the left to be enamored of Lenin’s communist regime in Russia. And almost everyone who was enamored of Lenin was also an admirer of Mussolini’s Fascist government in Italy. For example, General Hugh “Iron Pants” Johnson, who ran Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration (NRA) kept a picture of Mussolini hanging on his wall. The admiration was often mutual. Some writers for publications in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy wrote of their fascination with Roosevelt’s New Deal.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/classical-liberalism-vs-modern-liberalism-and-modern-conservatism
Never should’ve let progressives into our midst. Are liberals sure they wanna be called progressives now? I’m convinced they keep changing their labels to throw those who would oppose them off their guard.
Among the many things I did not know….Joe McCarthy was originally a Democrat from Wisconsin….the home of America’s Progressive Movement?
Interesting.
tiredofIT
May 26th, 2012
12:11 pm
“Thank you, President George Walker Bush.” I doubt the injured solders and families of the dead agree!
@@
May 26th, 2012
12:22 pm
Or maybe they’re just ignorant of the history behind their chosen ideology.
Kindly giving them the benefit of a doubt.
schnirt
snoqualmiefalls
May 26th, 2012
12:50 pm
Uhhh, MarkV, you make great points, however you are not abiding by the rules TBan has set up, therfore your thoughts are insignificant in his view. And of course I am deflecting, as TBan continually points out because , as you know, he knows and you don’t. It would all be very simple to adapt TBan’s world view, and it would all be much simplier if TBan were “our Dear Leader”… but I deflect.
Tiberius - Banned by Bookman and proud of it!
May 26th, 2012
1:47 pm
Marko, sadly you don’t remember much about the last debt ceiling go around. Obama didn’t do the $10 in cuts for every $1 in tax hikes. That was a moderator at a GOP debate.
Facts are such troublesome things, aren’t they?
Tiberius - Banned by Bookman and proud of it!
May 26th, 2012
1:49 pm
MaryV would make better points if he just tried to stop lying so much, sno.
Tundra Dude
May 26th, 2012
2:25 pm
It’s well-documented that Athens lied about its finances when applying to join the euro.
Would have been useful to include the name of the Wall Street firm responsible for “helping”
Greece (and other sub-prime countries) conceal their true debtload.
At least one German economist predicted this outcome years ago. He thought then, this was being
orchestrated by the bankers. I agree.
snoqualmiefalls
May 26th, 2012
2:42 pm
Hey TBan… As our Dear Leader, St. Reagan used to say “there you go again” A pithy remark is always expected from you…never disappoint us do you?
Joe the Prophet
May 26th, 2012
2:52 pm
CULT – people devoted to a person, idea, or thing, based entirely on faith; without regard to fact, proof, or evidence……
Conservatives are now a CULT……
The NRA gun cult, the birther cult, the Grover Norquist tax cut cult, the Paul Broun spending cut cult, the pro-life/terrorist cult…not to mention their numerous religious cult……
All led by their cultist leader..Mitt Romney..! The association is just to obvious to ignore..!!!!
david green
May 26th, 2012
3:55 pm
Yes Michael Hitler was elected which was made possible by the treaty of Versailles that Germany was forced to sign after losing a police action against Serbia that had been expanded into a world war by both Britain and France. The harsh reparations demanded by President Woodrow Wilson did just as they were intended to do: which was to punish the Germans by destroying their national economy which then brought about the very social conditions that gave rise to Hitler.
The National “Socialist” German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) headed by Hitler was in reality a forerunner of today’s conservative movement. Hitler hated the communists and used his power to destroy the communist party in Germany – one of the first things that Hitler did when he came to power was to abolish the labor unions and enslaved the German worker to their employers who financially supported Hitler’s political campaign.
Just as Hitler intentionally deceived German workers into voting for the Nazi party by labeling his political organization National “Socialist” German Workers’ Party – his actions after coming to power make it clear that he was in reality a Corporate Socialist just as are modern day American Conservatives. Today’s American Conservatives have worked tirelessly since the days of Ronald Reagan to socialize the unreasonable risks the big banks and wall street takes onto the American taxpayer while they reap the profits made before the resulting bubble bursts in the stock market which leads to massive layoffs and recessions.
Indeed with their incessant war against labor unions – the cover conservatives give medial insurance companies that allow them to rip off their clients while withholding promised medical care – the deceptive language used to take advantage of the average Americans ignorance in how big business and our political system really work in order to get the average voter to vote against their own interests and the defense of wall streets socialization of risk on the taxpayer. Today’s conservative party have far more in common with Hitler’s Nazi party then they do with the Christian religion many conservatives profess.