http://www.psmag.com/politics/nazis-and-health-care-3483/
Germans
in the last few weeks have noticed the radioactive arguments leaking
from the United States over the prospect of national health. “Bizarre
Debates Over U.S. Health Reform,” read one headline on Deutsche Welle, running a picture of Obama defaced with a Hitler mustache; and in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “American Health Reform: Stalin, Hitler and Obama.”
Germany is one of the few nations in the world where large numbers of
living people can recall both major forms of 20th-century
totalitarianism. They know what tyranny looks like, and they know when
they’re not living under it. The idea that Obama is about to inaugurate
an age of American totalitarianism by building a European-style national
health system frankly makes the exploiters of those arguments —
“fear-mongering Republicans” — sound like fools.
But why does this rhetoric work? Why does the slightest whiff of
Rooseveltian social policy get Americans on the bandwagon, hollering
about fascism, state control, Hitler and Stalin? One answer is Jonah
Goldberg’s demagogic book Liberal Fascists,
which explains to his astounded readers that the word Nazi comes from
“National Socialism.” Hitler was a Socialist! There it is in the name of
his party!
Older read but well worth the time. The comparison to this and Obamacare is mind numbing..Like all Collectivization of the past this too will be a grand failure. I repeat there is nothing FREE in Obamacare..Nearly 75% of the population want nothing to do with this Law.
( Including Congress, you think maybe they read the Bill? )
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