A Party to Remember

There is an old saying that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Given that the quality of education in the US has definitely slipped in recent decades—verified by interviews of voters in the last election who didn’t even know who Joe Biden was but voted for Obama—it is clear that we have produced a couple of generations of functional zombies. They go about their daily lives quite happy with the latest tunes but are only motivated by what makes them feel good as opposed to rational thought. In that, I suppose the theorem that Democrats are born but Republicans are made through logic might be true.

But one pejorative insult that seems to be tossed around a lot these days revolves around Germany and the terrible war Hitler brought to the world. The Speaker of the House saying that people opposing health care were carrying swastikas was nothing more than an attempt by the Democratic far-left to demonize people who are turning out in droves to oppose the massive government take-over of health care. The Democrats will brook no interference with their program and the President has told them to “hit back twice as hard.” (The SEIU took that seriously from recent news reports.)

Perhaps the Speaker, being one of my generation and from San Francisco, toked her way through college and failed to remember that the term “Nazi” was only a nickname given to another far-left group, the National Socialist German Party. Both Socialists and National Socialists instituted totalitarian regimes that were, I believe, somehow erroneously placed at opposite ends of the political spectrum. Both are fascist in their top-down ordering of society. Both reformed their respective nations into a new political identity where the State was in control of the daily lives of people and collected the names of dissenters. In the USSR they sent them to gulags. In Germany they sent them to concentration camps. (Same action, just different names.) The Democratic left-wing with its government run health care, cap and tax and now the “flag@whitehouse” report-your-neighbor email address, is attempting just such a reordering. (No, not the camps…well, not yet, anyway.) And President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid are leading the way. While I would not characterize any of them as Nazi’s, it does appear that they want history to repeat itself. I guess they think that they can do it better.

I don’t.

Click the title for a link to more on this view from the American Thinker.