“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” Adolf Hitler, May Day, 1927
The main differences are that Nazis were more terrifying than nauseating, that national pride has been discarded, and that Obama’s power grab is moving slightly more slowly because of our tradition of liberty and the fact that so many of us are armed. Give him a four-year extension and the similarities will become more obvious.
When all is said and done, oligarchical collectivism is oligarchical collectivism. Its various paths all lead to the same place."
Update: Some videos from George Reisman and Hans Hoppe provide a wealth of insight to demolish the ridiculous bumper sticker platitudes of those who claim Hitler used "National Socialist" as a deception:
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QUOTE OF THE HOLOCENE: "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation" - V.I. Lenin -- You're welcome to point out to me any decision that Hugo Chavez Barack Obama has yet made that Lenin would quarrel with. [ crickets ]
RUNNER-UP QUOTE OF THE HOLOCENE: "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke
DUAL QUOTES OF THE 20TH CENTURY: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." and "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H. L. Mencken
LAST YEAR'S QUOTE: Washington, D.C. runs "just like the mob, except it's legal," said Schweizer. "If problems are being solved, if things are going smoothly and things are being fixed, a lot of people are not going to give. The party establishments and the political leaders from both sides are collaborating a lot more than they let on," explained Schweizer."