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So… Outreach then?
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Mourdock called the comparison his “most important lesson” as he leaves public office…
No, the most important lesson is that this man should never be elected to any public office ever again. Anywhere.
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Dow Jones on 1/20/93: 3,242
Dow Jones on 1/20/01: 10,578
Dow Jones on 1/20/09: 7,949
Dow Jones on 6/6/14: 16,924
Clinton: + 7,336
Bush: - 2,629
Obama: + 8,975
Looks to me like the “Nazis” have done slightly better than the patriotic fiscal conservatives.
Mr. Mourdock, I’m a Hoosier who proudly voted for President Obama twice. Kindly fuck off and leave public life forever.
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I wonder if Mr. Mourdock really wants to go there.
I’m not exactly an historian, but my recollection is that in Germany, one party cried “the sky is falling, the sky is falling,” blamed everyone else but themselves for their problems, advocated the imposition of their “purity of thought” on everyone else, exploited the weak, seized power through devious measures and fear mongering, undertook a foreign policy based upon aggressive imposition of their will on other nations (all in the name of “self-protection”), and then guided Germany to self-immolation.
Now if we want to draw an analogy with present politics, which party most sounds analogous to the Nazis?
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Oh dear, he hasn’t learn when to keep his mouth shut.
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compared the economic situation in the U.S. to Nazi Germany on Saturday.
Which Saturday?
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Any of them, all of them.
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I guess that’s why the R party went ballistic anytime a Nazi analogy was close to being made: they wanted them all to themselves.
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It’s not the constant Godwining, it’s the sheer knowledge-free, fact-free ignorance behind the Godwinnning.
1 The NSDAP never won an election (other than the fake plebiscites after the seizure of power, of course). The NSDAP gained power by rendering the country ungovernable with constant resistance in the Reichstag and sedition and thuggery and street brawling in the rest of the country basically screwing the country up so badly that anything seemed preferable to letting them go on with it. The NSDAP peaked electorally in the Weimer Republic’s next to last election, losing seats in the final election. Because of turmoil and dissension among the other actors, however, Hitler was in a position to prevent the formation of a new government he wasn’t in and cut a deal with old-line elites who had been burned in the most recent round of government-forming machinations and thought they could deal with him and control him. In the deal, Hitler chancellor and only three of the umpty something ministries went to Nazis.
Hitler won no elections. He became Chancellor through a corrupt bargain with a disgruntled segment of the cabal of elites who’d already seized power and destroyed democracy (Germany had been ruled by decree for three years when Hitler was named Chancellor). Once in, Hitler swept the elites who thought they could control him out of the way by engineering an “emergency,” getting authority to rule by decree for himself and then it was all over for them.
2 Germans were unemployed and miserable not because the government spent too much because out of control financiers in New York City wrecked the whole fucking global economy with insane speculation, which Chancellor Breuning, governing by decree, exacerbated with an idiotic economic policy of slashing government expenditures, slashing safety net spending, spending on the retired and sick and disabled, and deflating the currency The exact disaster idiot Mourndock wants to repeat.
And, even with all that misery, Hitler never won a fucking election.
3 If you’re looking for a party consciously attempting to reproduce the NSDAP’s tactics, and to seize power despite not being able to actually win elections, a party that is overtly and proudly anti-democratic, that gains power through thinly veiled coup de etat’s and ballot rigging, look no further than the one Mourndock is in.
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You know who else talked a lot of nonsense about why things were the way they were?
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Historians will be grateful to Mourdock for uncovering that the Holocaust was actually a fiscal program.
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So, Nazi Germany’s problem was that one party blocked all legislation attempted by the other party, in order to keep the economy in a shambles?
I did not know that.
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Was that a good day of the week for Nazis?
Nearly as good as the other six.
“…And why is that?..”
Uh, because the bad ole liberals wrecked the economy, driving it into debt?
That would make conservatism the Nazis. What’d they do?
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These foolish talks are intended only to get some media attention and nothing else. People know Mour-dog can only bark, not bite.
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Very shortly Mr. Mourdock will be immaterial – a footnote in history.
Perhaps he should reflect upon the fact that his viewpoint doesn’t jibe with that of his electorate. Or the rest of the country, either. Why do jerks like this get press?
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God intended rape babies, and the U.S. economy is like Nazi Germany.
One shark-jumper after another from the terminally-ill Republican Party.
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Richard Mourdock = ignorant and seriously mentally amiss.
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