LOL @ progressive compassion. You know the Nazis were socialists like you, right?
I didn't know that Nazi's were socialists.
LOL @ progressive compassion. You know the Nazis were socialists like you, right?
I didn't know that Nazi's were socialists.
LOL @ progressive compassion. You know the Nazis were socialists like you, right?
To be fair they're just following Trump. He spent 2016 promising healthcare for everyone.
Mitch McConnell blames the soaring deficit on Medicare and Social Security, not the GOP tax cuts
Republicans are, right now, running ads claiming that Dems want to wreck Medicare. So, uh, thanks for the honesty?
Paul Ryan's Super PAC sure airs a lot of racist ads.
Well...as i'm sure you are aware, referring to ethnonationalist grievance as simply "populism" is a great disservice to the term. Germany was humiliated and broken by the treaty of Versailles, but Hitler needed intense anti-jewish ethno-nationalism to replicate the Kaiser Wilhelm'sNamibian genocide in Europe. The Nazi party weren't exactly displaced farmers and chimney sweeps.So they used populism to come to power and once in power stripped workers’ rights. Hmm.
The Nazis were an ethno-nationalist fascist group that banned worker strikes. They were nominally socialist to gain a populist foothold with workers but once they did so, ignored the concerns of the workers in lieu of increased productivity at any costs.
The whole "socialism is bad because (Venezuela, Cuba, Nazis)" shtick is not only intellectually lazy it's dishonest. Roughly on par with "you know Lincoln was a Republican and Democrats were in favor of slavery" as far as political arguments go.
just read this NYRB article last night by a Nazi scholar that compares the build up to Hitler with present situation in the USA: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/
If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell. He stoked the hyperpolarization of American politics to make the Obama presidency as dysfunctional and paralyzed as he possibly could.
Yep. That whole section on McConnell et al is spot on.