Mobbing The Debate: Not Just Health Care Anymore!

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1. I’ve got a copy of the book.  Should I send it to Rush Limbaugh?  It’s obvious to me that would be a waste of time, but have any of these people who throw out “Nazis” in their name-calling ever read this book?  It’s about the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party before World War II (and about the war itself).  It’s written by a journalist who was there for most of the pre-war time.

   Really, to say that Hitler was opposed to big business is crazy.  He was successful because he specifically courted big business and they responded with huge donations.  There were some members of his inner circle who believed they should have more socialist policies – and they were moved aside.

   Maybe a book is too much work?  How about watching “Schindler’s List?”  I can critique the movie itself but would rather point out that it really gives a good view of how the party operated with business.

   All the sane 80% of the electorate can do is resist this message.  We’ve seen it in the US before.  There was the radio priest who used inflammatory language to support reactionary views.  Father Coughlin was anti-Semitic and supportive of Naziism.  He faded from sight when his bishop forced him to quit radio after the US entered the war.

   It’s obvious Rush Limbaugh can never go to far, so we are stuck with him.  I doff my hat to those individuals and groups work so hard to counter him.

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   1. That’d be news to I.G. Farben, among others. Rush is in one of his drug-induced fever dreams, or just making things up.

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      1. I’m tired of the Nazi analogies, either by the left or the right.  It’s got to stop, but it won’t because at present the right wing’s arguments have no substance and are morally bankrupt.

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      2. In 1928, German industry under Krupp leadership put down a general strike, locking out 250,000 workers, and encouraging the government to cut wages 15%. In 1929, the Chrysler Building was capped with Krupp steel.

         Gustav and especially Bertha were initially skeptical of Hitler, who was not of their class. Gustav’s conversion took place in 1932, when Hitler dropped plans to nationalize business, the Communists gained seats in the November 6 elections, and Chancellor Schleicher suggested a planned economy with price controls. Gustav soon became enamoured with the party (Fritz Thyssen described him as “a super-Nazi”), to a degree his wife and subordinates found bizarre.

         In 1933, Hitler made Gustav chairman of the Reich Federation of German Industry. Gustav ousted Jews from the organization and disbanded the board, establishing himself as the sole-decision maker. Hitler visited Gustav just before the RГ¶hm purge in 1934, which among other things eliminated socialist leanings from the Nazi movement. Gustav supported the “Adolf Hitler Endowment Fund of German Industry”, administrated by Bormann, who used it to collect millions of Marks from German businessmen. As part of Hitler’s secret rearmament program, Krupp expanded from 35,000 to 112,000 employees.

         That Limpbaugh doesn’t know, or more likely doesn’t care that he is spouting fiction, is of course, understood.
         

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         1. Krupp Steel

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   1. While you’re studying the shark they jumped already, they’re creating new sharks to jump.  

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3. I’m helping out Rep. Joel Judd on his free community party on Wednesday the 26th, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm’ish, and you’re invited.  He’ll be having a discussion on health care too, how you can join the push for universal coverage.  We all have to get out and push to get health care done!  There’s going to be food, a magician, and music.  The location is Adams Mystery Playhouse, at 24th and Federal.  Everyone is welcome to come.  Hope to see you there!  Thanks.

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   1. But I won’t make it.  

      Have fun, stay safe and make some calls.

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