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What I am not seeing anywhere is pushback against the Huckster for his on-going campaign to trivialize the Holocaust. What better way to diminish the fact of it than to find everyday analogies? This is straight out of the right-wing Victimhood playbook, and something the world lets them get away with day in and day out. Anyone with a stake in the preservation of our correct remembrance of that unique descent into Hell (i.e. all of Humanity) needs to make the case loud and clear that this shall not be tolerated, else we may go back there again one day.
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What is the right’s fascination with Nazis?..Everything they say is Nazi-this, Nazi-that… Obama is routinely compared to Hitler. When you trivialize the word by invoking Nazi to discuss anything, the meaning is an offense to the hundreds of millions who died in WW2 because of them. I said the right had a fascination before. Now I think it is Nazi-fetish. God help us if these people ever get in power.
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Is there anything more unChristian than what these radical, evangelical, right-wing Christians will say and do? The unbridled hate they spew is mind-boggling.
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Huckabee is a nasty little man. This latest outrage makes it more obvious than some of the appalling things he’s said in the past. But, really, this is a matter of degree and not of kind. He’s nasty and hateful and invariably evil. And he’s regarded as a serious person and a national figure in one of two political parties in this country.
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Just the usual gasoline for the Christian Right Wing bonfires. He’s not even worth a footnote in the Wikipedia historical write up.
1 / Specious Holocaust analogy is the last refuge of a scoundrel. (Sorry T. Paine.)
2 / This is Huck’s last big circus for his Political Infotainment Grift-a-Con Machine™. He is working hard because he has some competition (Cruz, Jindal, Carson, et alia). Hence the stupidities and vitriol.
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Yeah. Kinda makes me wish there actually was a god to give them exactly what they deserve.
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Huckabee considers himself a close friend of Israel and Jews, so much so that’s he’s entitled to invoke their heritage and suffering. In fact,he said yesterday that the response he’s gotten from Jews has been very supportive (for what that’s worth).
But then he went on to frame the issue as one between Republicans and the president. And that’s where he demonstrated that he really IS willing to trivialize the Holocaust for political gain.
As for the survivors of that horror, tens of thousands in both Israel and the US live in poverty. The next time Huckabee, or anyone else, makes a Holocaust reference, ask him what he’s doing to support them.
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Hey Huck: 20% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Your god is the biggest abortionist of them all.
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That he is and it is confirmed by his refusing to back down on his despicable reference
The fascination, I believe, is partly rooted in the fact that that GOP was vehemently against fighting WWII. They were the isolationists back then, and even the current royalty (the Bush’s) made a whole lot of money dealing with the Nazis.
So it gets tied into their revisionist history, that they are the tough hawks on wars, that they fight the evil Nazi’s…and really are the resistance movement.
Its necessary for them to go to such lengths, and so often, because the reality is so greatly different than their world view. So it takes more paper to paper it over.
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I’m guessing his history of standing anxiously at oven doors is equally deep…
the thing is anything for a buck huck would be like the catholic church was during WW2 giving the nazi regime and hitler a wink wink nod nod all the while condemn them for their actions…hypocracy at its worst
And not just isolationist either. Read “The War Against America” by Philip Roth for a portrait of the American right at the time and their fawning, admiring attitude toward Hitler - just look at Lindbergh. You see an faint echo of that even today in right-wing punditry about Greece vs. Germany.
And the fashion on the “pro-life” side of calling every blastocyst a “baby” really blurs the numbers. I’d like to see his numbers broken out by maturity.
Huck? Trivialize? You betcha.
He even likened the use of the term RINO to the actions that led to the holocaust.
In his speech, Huck talked about how he wanted conservatives to stop calling more moderate Republicans RINOs – “Republicans in name only."
“Let’s stop calling each other somehow less Republican than someone else,” he said.
Then Huckabee mentioned that he would be going to Auschwitz next week and that the horror of the Holocaust began with the “devaluation of people."
How could an educated nation like Germany end up doing something so horrible?
“You realize that the only way you can end up there is when you start with the idea that people just aren’t as valuable as you are,” said Huckabee, linking the RINO issue with fascist atrocities in World War II.