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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDinesh DSouza: "Hitler got his ideas from the Democrats!"
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/01/fox-guest-dinesh-d-souza-hitler-took-three-very-destructive-genocidal-ideas-democratic-party/217465"Well, the book uncovers a sort of secret history between fascism and the Democratic Party and the left. This is important because, as you know, fascism is now the card that is played by the left against [President Donald] Trump. Trump is a fascist, Republicans are the party of fascism. I show that the opposite is true. Fascism has always been on the left. I also point out three ideas that Hitler got, very destructive, genocidal ideas from the Democratic Party."
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Germany has just suffered a brutal, humiliating defeat in WWI.
Communism is threatening the european way-of-life.
Historical economic crises are crushing the german economy in 1923 and 1929.
Pseudo-darwinian racial theories are widespread in european society.
Mussolini invents fascism in Italy.
The NSDAP brown-shirts are regularly getting into bloody streetfights with communist thugs.
But it was the Democrats who gave Hitler his ideas. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)JHB
(37,162 posts)Oh, dang, I think I know who the 15th Doctor is going to be.
onenote
(42,759 posts)Fucking moron.
spanone
(135,874 posts)Gothmog
(145,558 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Literal voter fraud, or something.
Like all such crimes, it's okay if you're a Republican.
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Johonny
(20,888 posts)Conservative, one who is never afraid to take a dried up failed idea and try to squeeze another buck from it.
underpants
(182,879 posts)Post #9 below.
itcfish
(1,828 posts)in jail? Didn't he get prosecuted for some crime not to long ago?
underpants
(182,879 posts)Yes I actually fit that all into the subject line.
No one takes this miserable joke seriously except the easy marks.
Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)to "Liberal Fascism" and call it "Conservative Communism".
You need a second oxymoron to counteract the first.
underpants
(182,879 posts)But I'm not buying it and I'm not going to be seen walking around with a Hitler 'stached smiley face. That's the only copy my library had.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Never go full Hitler, no one takes you seriously after that, never go full Hitler!
underpants
(182,879 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)CincyDem
(6,386 posts)...dontcha know, it was all Hillary's idea.
(in case I need it on this one...lol).
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Oh look, Dinesh has another book to sell. Isn't it sweet that some publishing house thinks his scribblings are worth money? Now, let's talk about how raising the minimum wage turns workers into slothful, lazy layabouts who don't contribute anything to society.
underpants
(182,879 posts)http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2tdkm8/the-colbert-report-dinesh-d-souza
This s is my recap the next day on DU. 2007.
So D'Souza was on to promote his latest book "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11" (remember that title it comes in handy later) and after he claims that Reagan's selling of Hawk missiles to Ghaddafi kept him out of the terrorism business (huh?) he went on to claim that gays were part of the reason that 9/11 happened oh and then he admitted that he really didn't know very much about gay culture.
THEN it got weird.
Colbert actually got him to admit that he, D'Souza, agreed with "some of the things that these radical Islamic fundamentalist have to say" as Colbert put it "you do agree with that statement don't you"
D'Souza "Yes"
then and I mean right then Colbert says (~paraphrased) "So the left is the cause of why 9/11 happened"
D'Souza "I think that is taking it a bit far"
Colbert "That is why I had you on the show because I agree with that statement (pointing to and reading from the book cover)The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11"
D'Souza (incredulously) "I DIDN'T DO 9/11!!!"
Colbert then went on to turn it back on the the left and Hollywood taking his foot off D'Souza's neck if you will.
The funniest part was that D'Souza didn't seem to know what was happening. Colbert used an old tactic that RW radio host do all the time-keep reasking a question cutting off the replies until you make a statement and ask if they agree with it. I watched this thing a couple of times (sorry didn't take exact notes on the quotation), the audience's response is muted a bit but some appear to realize what Colbert had just gotten D'Souza to do-REJECT HIS OWN THESIS.
ProfessorPlum
(11,277 posts)thanks for posting, both the link and the commentary
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)They've gone beyond pure greed and ignorance to highly fanciful, completely delusional discourse. They're literally pulling ideas out of thin air.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,190 posts)1. Hitler got his ideas for mass extermination of Jews, gypsies, lesbians & gays, etc. from the United States. In the Twenties, states were sterilizing wholesale populations that were poor and uneducated and sometimes mentally challenged under the guise of feeble-mindedness. Hitler started with sterilization and moved ahead with extermination.
2. Hitler had a photo of Henry Ford hanging in his anteroom because of Ford's virulent anti-Semitism (published in his newspaper) and Ford's endorsement of state-sponsored eugenics to breed a better generation.
3. While the *Southern* democrats of the Twenties and the Thirties leaned toward segregation, the KKK, and Jim Crow laws, it was a segment of the party, not the party itself. If anyone was Fascist, it was a certain segment of republican business leaders who proposed a Putsch to remove FDR from office by the military and install a corporate leader in his place to run the country.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)puked on the sidewalk and farted out a lie before returning to the damp, stinky place under his rock. It's Dense DeSousaphone.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Back to the showers with you Kid.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)What a D'dope.
procon
(15,805 posts)MiddleClass
(888 posts)Obviously, facts are stubborn things.
Hitler was one of the founders of the Nazi party.
The opposition at the time was called the Socialist Democrats.
The opposite, in the reasons the Nazis got a footing.
Socialist Democrats were enamored with Stalin and communism. The opposite of fascism.
It looks like prison time did not help his brain,
if he didn't go to prison for election fraud maybe, should have
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The biggest parties at the time were:
NSDAP - nationalist, fascist, anti-liberal, racist
Zentrum - basically centrists
SPD - social-democrats, center-left
KPD - communists, extreme left
The democracy of the Weimarer Republik was young and inexperienced and had no system in place how to deal with political sabotage.
The Communists and the NSDAP both wanted to see democracy gone and both sabotaged the parliamentary process. Crisis ensued, except the NSDAP was able to outmaneuver the KPD by allying with Big Money and used the political chaos to their advantage. The KPD lost the power-struggle and was destroyed.
But make no mistake: Hitler rose to power because democracy was under attack from both sides.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Things like white supremacy and Christian nationalism, for starters!
Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)It seems Din-Din is blinded by his colonial mindset and ignorant of the history of the party he serves.
*The governor in question is J. Frank Hanly of Indiana, in 1907. They were a nasty bunch even before the 60's.