Discussion for article #227995
And we have the most incompetent socialist in history in charge who can’t keep the stock markets from being up well over 200%
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‘National Socialism’ (aka NAZIism) was right wing. And socialism to Nazis meant only what Hitler wanted it to mean. Which was pretty much nothing. It was just a name that helped to peel off people who otherwise would have been attracted to real socialist parties. Presumably Roberts mean just ‘socialism’.
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When’s the last time any of you can remember any of the Republicans who compare Democrats to Nazis demonstrate they have the slightest understanding of what National Socialism actually was?
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Someone needs to tell gramps that that was the GOP scam 6 years ago. Doesn’t work anymore.
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Roberts: Reelect me so we can change course.
try arguing with that logic
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“We have to change course because our country is heading for national socialism, Roberts said. That’s not right. It’s changing our culture. It’s changing what we’re all about.”
That’s not right from a 78 year old senile Senator who lives in a rocking chair in KS.
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We have to change course because our country is heading for national socialism
and only a fascist can stop it – Vote For Roberts.
He’s so going to lose.
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“There’s a palpable fear among Kansans all across this state that the America that we love and cherish and honor will not be the same America for our kids and grandkids,” Roberts said, “and that’s wrong. That’s very wrong.”
People grow and change. So do countries. Of course the America I grew up in cannot be the American my grandson will grow up in. It’s axiomatic. And I think it is not a bad thing. We cannot stay stuck in the past and expect to thrive as a nation.
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He lamented that people are “losing faith in their government” and that the government “is losing faith in our people. That is a bad situation to be in.”
I wonder why people are losing faith in their government? Could it be perhaps, because the republicans, and those on the right are continuously droning on about how evil government is?
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Well, somebody had to Godwin this race.
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Pat’s here to sell us national corporatism, the ultimate belief the goodness of all corporations. Gee thanks, Pat! God Bless you!!
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“It’s not clear whether Roberts intended to make a reference to Nazism or simply meant to invoke the run of the mill looming specter of socialism.”
False. It’s actually very clear that he very carefully chose words to echo the name of the Nazi party.
“this state [and] the America that we love and cherish and honor”
i.e., Kansas and Amurikkka controlled by white Christian people
“will not be the same America for our kids and grandkids,”
i.e., Kansas and Amurikkka not controlled by white Christian people
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Say what you will, at least it’s an ethos.
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Is it not exceedingly ironic that a conservative whines about creeping “national socialism” which was one of the most conservative movements of the 20th century? Consider that Stalin and Communism was Hitler’s chief adversary. He railed against Communism in Mein Kampf.
He doesn’t actually live in Kansas. Apparently, his senility is that bad.
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Indeed. “Socialism” was part of the word-games and propaganda manufactured to generate the populist will to enact the ridiculous fascist measures Hitler enacted.
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Replacing reason with paranoid appeal to irrational fear based in political ideology. See it all the time from these guys.
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You forget that malignorant, fearful folks (RWNJs) are easy to scare and manipulate…and the GOTP have had 6 years to produce more dumb voters in their gerrymandered districts.
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"the government "is losing faith in our people. "
Given our undeniable, demonstrable goose-stepping march towards corporate oligarchy and plutocracy and Mittens’ transcendent observation that corporations are people too, it appears that the government, in fact, is NOT losing faith in “our people.” Rather, it’s just blatantly selecting some over others.
Of course, there’s also the subtext of “our people” being used to indicate that…well…maybe it’s just easier to paraphrase:
“the government appears to no longer be catering quite as much to us white Christians because something something the white Christian is the most discriminated against person in Amurikkka yackity shmackity religious freedom…”
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