🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Shavar Dakel Jeffries wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 MAR 1995 23:48:08 -0500 
> From: Shavar Dakel Jeffries <sdj2@acpub.duke.edu>
> Newgroups: duke.classes.gronke, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
> Subject: Gingrich and Hitler, the Republicans and SS Men 
> 
> Watching CNN the other day, I heard several Congresspeople compare the 
> Republican reforms with regard to their impact upon America's children as 
> tantamount to Nazism.
> 
> Although I would heartily disagree with the placement of the Gingrich
> Republicans in the same vein as a society which propagated the deliberate, 
> systematic extermination of a race of people, the Republican Contract, if 
> implemented, would turn this society into one of ruthless individualism 
> and selfishness.  The suggestion that at the same time the poor and their 
> children are going to be put out on the street that tax cuts be made for 
> certain segments of the population is ludicrous; especially in the 
> context of a trillion-dollar national debt.
> 
> Republicans are today courting and fostering visceral, emotional 
> responses by the public instead of true dialogue, consideration, and 
> debate.  Instead of analyzing the pros and cons of product liability as 
> they generally occur, the Republicans play to the emotions of the people 
> via the continued presentation of the McDonalds hot coffee red-herring.
> 
> Instead of the formulation of a committee of experts to analyze the pros 
> and cons of Affirmative Action, and how what shortcomings there are can 
> be addressed, the Republicans court the deep-rooted racism of the 
> American psyche, and propagate the dissolution of AA altogether.  
> 
> Quick, irrational decision-making was the crux of what made Hitler who he 
> was; it served him well from 1939-1942; however, starting with the 
> knee-jerk decision to launch Barbarosa and invade Russia during the 
> winter (a decision which he had previously wrote in Mein Kampf was 
> tantamount to suicide) it was this decision-making process which caused 
> his downfall.
> 
> Although the policies of the Gingrich Republicans are not yet on the 
> scale of Hitler, Himmler, and the German National Socialists, they are 
> playing upon the same, knee-jerk emotions and prejudices that they did.
> 
> In 1933, the world viewed Hitler as an innocuous demagogue; many view the 
> Republicans in the same light today; others, including many of our 
> Congresspeople, believe they are on the road to Hitlerism.
> 
> Let's stop them now.   
> 
> 
> 
This is so absurd that it should not even be dignified with a response.
As far as I know, there is no plan afoot by Gingrich which would guarantee 
that the current Republican majority would be impossible to vote out in 
'96.  It is easy to resort to name-calling when you don't agree with 
someone's agenda, but what about proposing _real_ solutions which have 
the support of the electorate?  Much as I hate to see it happening, the 
GOP has done just that, and the Democrats should have better things to 
do (like trying to regain their status as the party of the little man) 
than construct elaborate, hollow analogies.


Lyndon Allin