How Obama's America And Nazi Germany Are Alike
South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint is taking some heat for remarks he made last evening at the National Press Club in Washington. Promoting his book Saving Freedom, DeMint told the audience that, "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." While DeMint, whose fellow Republican Jim Inhofe is the one colleague standing in the way of the coveted "Dumbest Senator" designation, may not be the brightest bulb in the chamber, he is, at least on this point, not necessarily incorrect. There are actually several eerie parallels between the current-day United States and Germany during the rise of Hitler.
- Powerful Jews control the banks and the media
- Decadent homosexuals corrupt our youth and pollute our theaters with their degenerate art
- We are saddled by immense debt from ill-advised military adventurism
- Our financial system has been bankrupted by the actions of an impulsive leader whose ascension to power was a result of his father having previously held the throne
- A group of conservative malcontents demonize and misrepresent the government with an amount of influence that is disproportionate to their small size
- There is something uncomfortably creepy about Joel Grey
Scary, right? Maybe we all owe Jim an apology.
Cue the Palinistas and the New Republic Party of America. Hail, Sarah. Hail, Sarah. Hail, Sarah.
Don't forget about spying on subversive groups! And great dance parties.
Also I'm pretty sure they had public social dramas, presented as non-fiction, in which well-off housewives would reveal intimate things about themselves.
Hausfrauen von Berchtesgaden.
Swing Kids, now that was a movie.
Sore losers.
We are sorely missing the severely chic military uniforms, though.
That comes later. Before the war it's all musical theater and orgies.
Sorry to out-nerd you, riotnrrd (I assure you I can't out-riot you), but the uniforms started in the 30s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_uniform
All along I've said that Beyonce is truly the Marlene Dietrich of our generation, but nobody listens.
But who's the Albert Speer of our generation? (Please let it not be Frank Fucking Gehry.)
Our theatrical entertainments are documented by Ch. Isherwood.
Smart, young,rich, shopaholic Americans mostly get their political news from reformed gossip columnists.