Adolf Hitler liked leather and crypto-military costumes, too...

[kpete]

Memorial Day: Enter Hitler, Release 2.0

By James Howard Kunstler
on May 30, 2011 8:58 AM



Adolf Hitler liked leather and crypto-military costumes, too, and the build-up to the Third Reich was all about colorful pageantry. Make no mistake - to borrow a favored presidential locution, if I may - Sarah Palin's campaign is all about shame, about being a nation of losers and feeling bad about it. Adolf Hitler's career was all about him feeling like a loser at a peculiar moment in history when his whole country felt like a loser nation. His feelings resonated with the crowd's. Germany had just lost the First World War. The victors (England, France, Great Britain) had imposed a harsh peace, including massive cash reparations. Germany was broke, demoralized, and humiliated. Hitler had fled to Germany from his own loser homeland, the fading empire of Austria, after a shiftless decade in Vienna of living in rented rooms and homeless men's shelters, having failed twice to get into the national arts college.

...............

......And it was in the years 1920 to 1923 that he discovered his theme: playing on Germans' feelings of humiliation and promising deliverance back to lost greatness.

This is exactly the theme of Sarah Palin's campaign. A large segment of the American public has entered the dark wilderness of loserdom. They've lost jobs, incomes, and even their homes. They can't support a family, can't afford to gas up their God-given cars, can hardly even afford to buy food - though many of this group have been programmed, tragically, to get much of their food from hamburger and taco dispensaries that "free market" America has generously dotted the landscape with. They are ashamed, especially living in a nation where liberty is supposed to enable you to get a leg up in the world, to be self-reliant, to make something of yourself. Hence, they imagine themselves to have somehow been deprived of liberty (and honor!) which they must now get back.

They have even lost their racial standing now that the role of president is occupied by a half-African man (who, they suspect, is not even a legitimate citizen, but rather an alien opportunist!). This is very hard for them to articulate, because racism is also something to be ashamed of, and they are already overwhelmed with shame - but nonetheless the old tribal-ethnic feelings dog them. So they express it in a convoluted way as the hobgoblin of "socialism" - the government lavishing money on people who don't deserve

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[MineralMan]

1. Unrecommended for Hitler comparison.

It's entirely possible to trash Sarah Palin without that. In fact, it's very easy to do so. Bringing Hitler into any discussion lowers the level of that discussion.

Sarah Palin is an execrable human being and an embarrassment to all decent people. That is sufficient.

[kpete]

3. awwwwwwwww

MineralMan

you DO keep me on my toes.

but then, I do try awfully hard to annoy you...

just kidding, I learn from your reactions to my posts.

in this case, you are probably RIGHT again.

peace, kpete

[MineralMan]

4. I just post what I think. How you react to it is completely

your decision.

As for trying to annoy me, that's a waste of time. I'm not annoyed. I just think Hitler comparisons are poor strategy. The author of that piece needs to do some rethinking.

[Nye Bevan]

7. I find it more bewildering than annoying.

There are about a million legitimate criticisms of Palin. Why go over the top with the ridiculous Hitler comparisons? Not only does it make the author look stupid, it is offensive to the real victims of Hitler.

[zeemike]

10. That piece was about militarism not really Palin.

And the fact that Hitler found his niche when he appealed to militarisms just as candidates do today.\
Hitler is a living example of that in our history and I am always surprised at how well it is marginalized for todays people.
And it may just prove the axion that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[Nye Bevan]

2. YES! Palin wore leather, and Hitler liked leather!

So Palin is Hitler!

Insightful article.

[galileoreloaded]

5. Biker jacket equals Hitler. Check. N/t

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I'd compare her outfit with a wannabe Biker Bitch and/or themed Dominatrix.

[zeemike]

8. If Palin or others like her should win in 12 or 16

Count this country gone.
And I am not saying that just to be snaky but I mean it....it will mean that Oligarchs feel comfortably in charge.
They really only need the President like they need actors to play a part.

[WingDinger]

9. REcommended, for showing the real carpetbagger, is not our foreign born imposter.

And that carpetbaggers, is more accurate than Teabaggers. Grifter/hucksters that exploit the ignorance of their audience, and inflame racial and moral hatred for the supposed forces making them hate. It seems that no matter what station in life you EARN/are given, you find those just below you on down reprehensible. Thus, the rigid honor code of prison. And blame them for all lifes ills. When Hitler started, he never could have known he'd become such a star. To be compared to Sarah Palin. He has arrived.

[The Magistrate]

11. The Gentleman Has A Point, Ma'am

[tuckessee]

12. Unrec for pure stupidity.

Better comparison is to say that Adolf Hitler would've loved Barack's extension of the Patriot Act.

[emilyg]

13. unrec.

[bobthedrummer]

14. Tommy Thompson is into that too here in corporate fascist rising Wisconsin kpete. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

15. Here's Tommy the man who sold the world Thompson with his Reichwing biker pals during a campaign

for POTUS-today he is passe to the ubermench RW Teabagger bikers that think Sister Sarah is hot-but check out Tommy in his leather and T-shirts

http://www.hupy.com/news/presidential-candidate-tommy-thompson-visits-little-sturgis-on-the-river-20090827.cfm

This is the man who hired Jerome Hauer on 9-10-01, and who had Reuben Jose King-Shaw as head of CMS when he was SectHHS for the criminal BUSH/CHENEY traitors for those of US that remember and love the truth.

[Initech]

16. "Excuse me, I'm looking for something that says dad likes leather..."