No, we were never even coming remotely close. Not in the McCarthy 50's, not during the Prohibition, not during the Reagan Era and certainly not now.BSmack wrote:We were comming awfuly close in the early 50s. Thanks in great measure to the rebels of the 50s and 60s, we avoided that fate. I wish I could be as certain about our not so distant future.Van wrote:People have been making that argument since the halcyon rebellion days of the 50's and 60's and no, we're no closer to Hitler's Nazi Germany than we ever were.
This is the sort of Chicken Little extremist "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" nonsense that fuels the ACLU and the Far Left since dirt was new.
On our worst day we never have been and never will be anything at all like Hitler's Nazi Germany. There is nothing in our national make up, our internal political manueverings and especially our foreign policy that has ever borne any resemblance to Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada. We are diametric opposites.
The United States literally has the ability to do exactly what Hitler endeavored to do, and quite a bit more. We not only don't do it, we've instead set an historical benchmark in our lack of international conquests. We could easily re-draw maps all over the world, and we don't. We could easily annnihilate our enemies, and we don't. We could easily decimate and take over any country on the planet, and we don't.
We have weak neighbors surrounding us and we let them be.
Mexico's oil? Venezuela's?
Iran's? Iraq's?
Saudi's?
All ours for the taking. Not the buying, or the leveraging, or even the gaining of pricing advantages and other favors.
No. The outright taking. What was theirs is now ours, including their land, and the name of their former city is now New Philadelphia.
We don't do it, and there's nothing and nobody that could stop us from doing it if we decided to go Hitler on 'em.
Canada? Mexico? Central America? All ours, within a few mere weeks, if we were only willing to engage in real war rather than the politically precious type we engage in throughout the middle east. There's not a damn thing anybody could do about it if the U.S. decided to annex all of North America...as Hitler attempted to do in Europe.
Kristallnacht? Liebensraum? Blitzkrieg?
There are no equivalents in modern U.S. history. There easily could be, and with a level of bloodless effectiveness (on our side, anyway) that Hitler could've never dreamt of enjoying.
No, instead we attempt to target only specific buildings while attempting to leave all the others alone, and then we allow ourselves to sit there and be pilloried in response to the relatively infintesimal collateral damage that does occasionally occur.
Somehow, I don't think Hitler was nearly so circumspect when he rolled through Warsaw.
Gypsies, Jews....foreigners?
How do you suppose Hitler would've dealt with illegal Mexicans and minorities in general in this country?
For the umpteenth time, the U.S. is easily the most benevolent world dynasty in the history of mankind. No nation in history has ever wielded the level of economic and military dominance at our disposal, much less done so little with it in terms of imperialistic conquest. Similarly, no other dynasty in world history has ever suffered so much internal dissention from its populace, without deciding to simply quash it.
The fucking irony: You monkeys sit here and decry the potential Hitler-esque degree of conduct by the U.S....and you sit here publicly decrying it, on the worldwide internet, where anybody and everybody can read it, including your own government...and you do so rightfully 100% confident in your ability to do so with no fear of reprisals.
But you compare Bush to Hitler.
Fucking people, trying to elevate yourselves, thinking you're so cute. Oh yes, you're so "open minded"; please, bow down and by all means give each other a self satisfied blowjob over this comfortable armchair quarterbacking game of yours. Go ahead and keep taking your mushbrained potshots, completely oblivious to the fact that you're free to do so and, um, exactly why is that, anyway??
It's only the luxury provided by the U.S.'s unprecedented cultural and governmental benevolence that affords you precious cunts the ability to sit back and be this gobsmackingly snide and stupid.
For your sake it's a good thing there is no "Hitler" in George Bush or in any aspect of modern U.S. society because if there were many of you morons would be herded up, lined up against a wall and shot, simply for the benefit of society.
They used to call it "culling the herd", starting with the woefully opinionated and loudmouthed 'tards.
yet strangely 
mental image of Franken getting Hannitized.
