Fox News, Breitbart and all the other lying right wing sources are reporting that anonymous sources are telling them that indictments are coming in the FBI investigation to Hillary Clinton. However, Trump is telling everyone that since the system is rigged the indictments may get buried by the Justice Department. Funny how the red lame stream media has conveniently discovered these anonymous sources days before the election. Actually, only s**t for brains would take these jokers seriously. As any fascist cult leader would do, Hitler was the best, they simultaneously make preposterous claims, discredit any other contradictory source and give themselves a way out, the ‘rigged system’, when their lies inevitably show themselves to be pure propaganda.
Here are some quotes from a Spiegel Online article in 2008 and some of my comments in brackets:
How Hitler Won Over the German People
[Trump will “drain the swamp”]
“Today Hitler Is All of Germany.” The newspaper headline on Aug. 4, 1934 reflected the vital shift in power that had just taken place. Two days earlier, on the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler had lost no time in abolishing the Reich Presidency and having the army swear a personal oath of unconditional obedience to him as “the Führer of the German Reich and People.” He was now head of state and supreme commander of the armed forces, as well as head of government and of the monopoly party, the NSDAP. Hitler had total power in Germany, unrestricted by any constitutional constraints. The headline implied even more, however, than the major change in the constellation of power. It suggested an identity of Hitler and the country he ruled, signifying a complete bond between the German people and Hitler.
[The vote is “rigged”. Check out current stories on the right wing “Voter Integrity Project” and right wing vote rigging. Also, the Trump campaign’s voter suppression tactics.]
The referendum that followed on 19 August 1934, to legitimize the power-political change that had occurred, aimed at demonstrating this identity. “Hitler for Germany — all of Germany of Hitler” ran the slogan. As the result showed, however, reality lagged behind propaganda. According to the official figures, over a sixth of voters defied the intense pressure to conform and did not vote “yes.” In some big working-class areas of Germany, up to a third had not given Hitler their vote. Even so, there were one or two tantalizing hints that Hitler’s personal appeal outstripped that of the Nazi regime itself, and even more so of the Party [Is Trump outstripping the Republican Party?]. “For Adolf Hitler yes, but a thousand times no to the brown big-wigs” [the ‘establishment’] was scribbled on one ballot-paper in Potsdam. The same sentiment could be heard elsewhere.
[The ‘great’ business achievements of Trump as opposed to the great bankruptcies of Trump.]
The personalized focus of the regime’s “successes” reflected the ceaseless efforts of propaganda, which had been consciously directed to creating and building up the “heroic” image of Hitler as a towering genius, to the extent that Joseph Goebbels could in 1941 with some justification claim the creation of the Führer Myth to have been his greatest propaganda achievement.
The propaganda image was never better summarized than by Hitler himself in his Reichstag speech of 28 April 1939 (which Haffner also cited):
‘By My Own Efforts’
“I overcame chaos in Germany, restored order, enormously raised production in all fields of our national economy…I succeeded in completely resettling in useful production those 7 million unemployed who so touched our hearts…I have not only politically united the German nation but also rearmed it militarily, and I have further tried to liquidate that Treaty sheet by sheet whose 448 Articles contain the vilest rape that nations and human beings have ever been expected to submit to. I have restored to the Reich the provinces grabbed from us in 1919; I have led millions of deeply unhappy Germans, who have been snatched away from us, back into the Fatherland; I have restored the thousand-year-old historical unity of German living space; and I have attempted to accomplish all that without shedding blood and without inflicting the sufferings of war on my people or any other. I have accomplished all this, as one who 21 years ago was still an unknown worker and soldier of my people, by my own efforts…”
The claim that the change in Germany’s fortunes had been achieved single-handedly was, of course, absurd. Fascinating, nevertheless, in this litany of what most ordinary Germans at the time could only have seen as astonishing personal successes of the Führer, is that they represented national “attainments” rather than reflecting central tenets of Hitler’s own Weltanschauung. There was not a word in this passage of the pathological obsession with “removing” the Jews [Trump’s plan for ‘illegal immigrants’], or of the need for war to acquire living space. Restoration of order, rebuilding the economy, removal of the scourge of unemployment, demolition of the restrictions of the hated Versailles Treaty [Trump’s rhetoric on current treaties], and the establishment of national unity all had wide popular resonance, ranging far beyond die-hard Nazis, appealing in fact in different ways to practically every sector of society. Opinion surveys long after the end of the Second World War show that many people, even then, continued to associate these “achievements” positively with Hitler.
The parallels with Trump and Hitler are clear and foreboding. If we have not learned from History, History will repeat itself and we will have no one else to blame but ourselves. Please, save the world, get out and do whatever it takes to vote for Hillary!