Those lovable goofs at Freeperville claim that Democrats are just like Hitler's 25 point Nazi platform.
But rather than mocking the Hooked On Phonics reading skills of the Freepers, let's move straight to the debunking those 25 similarities.
- We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples.
Hmmm, sounds like Abraham Lincoln...
- We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated.
OK I remember Mike Dukakis talking about Versailles...
- We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population.
Oh that's Andrew Jackson, ask any Cherokee...
- Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countryman.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
I don't seem to remember the Democrats stripping the Jews or anyone else of their citizenship based on religion.
- Those who are not citizens must live in Germany as foreigners and must be subject to the law of aliens.
This goes right to the heart of Nazism, which was based on the fear of all things foreign. Are these the Democrats? I don't think so.
- The right to choose the government and determine the laws of the State shall belong only to citizens. We therefore demand that no public office, of whatever nature, whether in the central government, the province, or the municipality, shall be held by anyone who is not a citizen.
Oh, you Birthers! You know, I'm guessing a municipality in the US could elect a noncitizen if they wanted to.
- We wage war against the corrupt parliamentary administration whereby men are appointed to posts by favor of the party without regard to character and fitness.
Five word response: "Heck of a job, Brownie." Two word response: "John Bolton"
- We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.
Mass deportations? Paging Lou Dobbs!
- Any further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.
I think that sounds more like the Minutemen than the Democrats.
- All citizens must possess equal rights and duties.
Obviously anyone that talks about equal rights is a Nazi. that must be why it is so out of fashion in America...
- The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all.
Therefore we demand:
- That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
Hitler sounds like he was talking about welfare Cadillacs Mercedes.
- Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
- We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
- We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
Sounds pretty cushy. This forgets to mention Adolph's preoccupation with smashing unions, and it does not mention slave labor, but that came later.
- We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
Bet you didn't know "SS" stood for Social Security.
- We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.
Breaking up the Jewish owned department stores and giving them to the craftsman was part of the German idea of traditional craftsmanship, a boon to some the minor Weimar Republic parties that Hitler absorbed. This resulted in the creation of the hand built Black Forest Cuckoo Panzer tank, which was vulnerable to Allied termites.
- 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.
Saving the family farm! Appealing to the Sagebrush rebellion types http://www.narlo.org/
- We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.
Death penalty for all political opponents! These are the Democrats?
- We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law.
OK, I'm pretty sure Hitler was trying to clamp down on activist judges.
- 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.
Schools teaching nationalism? Not exactly Democrats there.
We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.
Holy crap! Scholarships are for Nazis.
- The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
And so is gym class!
- We demand the abolition of the regular army and the creation of a national (folk) army.
Yeh, the Nazi army was like some sort of bus tour of gay tourists on a shopping tour of Poland.
- We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press. In order to make possible the creation of a German press, we demand:
(a) All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens.
(b) Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State. They must not be published in the German language.
(c) All financial interests in or in any way affecting German newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich.
Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved.
Censorship and state control of the media? This is not some sort of Fairness Doctrine - it's about xenophobia, terror, shipping people to labor camps, and the total suppression of dissent.
- We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race.
What? What about the Jews?
The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the pinciple:
Ok, there it is again, seriously, these are not the dems. Don't believe me? Ask a Jew. Seriously. We'll wait.
COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD
- In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.
The formation of professional committees and of committees representing the several estates of the realm, to ensure that the laws promulgated by the central authority shall be carried out by the federal states.
The leaders of the party undertake to promote the execution of the foregoing points at all costs, if necessary at the sacrifice of their own lives.
Hitler did not mention the executive branch, so he left a opening for him to invade another country and make himself an Unitary Eecutive, a Wartime President.