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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 12:55 PM Sep 2016

Remember when Trump said ," I love the uneducated."

Is this why he loves the uneducated.....


The Nazi movement was overtly anti-rationalist, favoring appeals to emotion and cultural myths.[90] It preferred such "non-intellectual" virtues as loyalty, patriotism, duty, purity, and blood, and allegedly produced a pervasive contempt for intellectuals.[91] Both overt statements and propaganda in books favored sincere feeling over thought, because such feelings, stemming from nature, would be simple and direct.[92] In Mein Kampf, Hitler complained of biased over-education, brainwashing, and a lack of instinct and will[93] and in many other passages made his anti-intellectual bent clear.[94] Intellectuals were frequently the butts of Hitler's jokes.[95] Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls were overtly instructed to aim for character-building rather than education.[96] The theory offered for Nazism was developed only after practice, which had denigrated expert thinking, only to seek out intellectuals who could be brought to support it.[97]

Sturmabteilung speakers were used, though their reliance sometimes offended well-educated audiences, but their blunt and folksy manner often had their own appeal.[98] One popular Munich speaker, declaring biological research boring, called instead on racial emotions; their "healthy ethnic instincts" would reveal the quality of the Aryan type.[99]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Nazi_propaganda

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Remember when Trump said ," I love the uneducated." (Original Post) SummerSnow Sep 2016 OP
Rover said it before tramp. elleng Sep 2016 #1
k and r niyad Sep 2016 #2
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