Many liberal Democrats, including some
Democrat politicians, like to compare Donald Trump and his followers
to Hitler and the Nazis. What they either don't realize or simply
choose to ignore is the fact that liberalism channels Nazism in many,
many ways.
Trump has called for removal of illegal immigrants, something liberals compare to Hitler. But Hitler removed all foreigners, legal or not. And as much as certain celebrities and liberal pundits are saying it, Trump has not called for removing all foreigners. Perhaps liberals should look up the word "illegal."
Let's look at a few examples of Liberalism mirroring Nazism:
1. Nazism: "We demand an agrarian
reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the
enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of
any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground
rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land."
Liberalism: The stripping away of land
from private owners. Liberalism today demands "eminent domain"
on property. The Bureau of Land Management is taking ranches in the West and the Obama administration has claimed more land for "national monuments" than any other administration in history.
2. Nazism: "We demand the
nationalization of all trusts...profit-sharing in large
industries...a generous increase in old-age pensions...by providing
maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor...and the
creation of a national (folk) army."
Liberalism: The points raised in
the Nazi platform demand an increase in taxes to support
them. Liberalism today demands heavy progressive and graduated income
taxes. Obama himself suggested, during his 2008 campaign, that a national security force be instituted.
3. Nazism: "That all unearned
income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished."
Liberalism: Demands a "death tax"
on anyone inheriting an estate.
4. Nazism: "We demand the
nationalization of all trusts."
Liberalism: Central control of the
financial system.
5. Nazism: "In order to make it
possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher
education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of
leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing
thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of
all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life.
The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be
taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that
specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station
or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. "
Liberalism: Central control of
education, with an emphasis on doing things their way. Liberals today
are doing things their way in our schools (although Hitler probably would have exterminated students who displayed symptoms of being snowflakes.)
6. Nazism: Took over control of health
care and made it a national system.
Liberalism: Passed Obamacare with the
intention of it becoming a single-payer, national system.
7. Nazism: Instituted national gun control
and confiscated guns.
Liberalism: Constantly screaming for
increased gun control and would confiscate guns if they could.
8. Nazism: Hitler gave everyone a free
radio. Then he nationalized the radio. Citizens were warned if they
listened to anything other than Nazi radio, they would be put to
death.
Liberalism: Demands Fox News and other
conservative media outlets be censored and/or destroyed.
9. Nazism: Everyone got a guaranteed
income from the government. The equal rights amendment was designed
in two components, equality, economics and social. Economics was
designed to equalize the country's wealth because everyone was
entitled to equal income. To achieve that, they had to raise taxes to
70%.
Liberalism: Pushes wealth redistribution, a $15 minimum
wage for everyone, higher taxes on the wealthy, and now has attained
47% of the population on some form of government assistance.
From the political program of the Nazi Party, adopted in
Munich, February 24, 1920:
"We ask that the government undertake the obligation above
all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment
and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be
allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take
place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we
demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand
profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care
for the aged. We demand … the greatest possible consideration of
small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal
governments. In order to make possible to every capable and
industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the
achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an
all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education …
We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of
poor parents … The government must undertake the improvement of
public health – by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting
child labor … by the greatest possible support for all clubs
concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the …
materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a
permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the
foundation of the common good before the individual good."
Who does that sound like – conservatives or liberals?