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Old 11-30-2012, 07:11   #15
Kai
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Originally Posted by Dozer523 View Post
The communist-socialist thing didn't work out, so now the President is a Nazi...?
German Nazism as most Americans understand it today was an extreme endpoint. There was a long road between the early days and the end stage. What we have today is something new -- my point is that it has a number of philosophical similarities with both the German and the Italian flavors of Fascism.

Do any of the following points sound familiar?


We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood.

All citizens must possess equal rights and duties.

The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all.

That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.

We demand profit-sharing in large industries.

We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.

We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class.

We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.

The State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people.

The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.

We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press.

We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense.

COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD

In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.


The above are select items from the Nazi Party's list of 25 demands:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar...r/25points.htm

The modern US variant currently has a more Progressive / socialist / communist public front to it, but the behind-the-scenes corporatist ties are extremely deep and widespread. It sure as hell isn't Capitalism, a Free Market and personal choice / responsibility anymore.
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