Bill Kristol is claiming the Occupation is antisemitic, and that is my cue for another installment of my series in Fascist propaganda. In fact, any time Kristol say anything, it's time to look for its roots in Fascist propaganda.
Besides, antisemitism? Really? The Paultards have their own obesession with bankers and the supposed conspiracies of the Bilderbergs and Rothschilds.
It's not surprising that the right would be drawing its themes from Fascism. After all, Fascism's main appeal is its promise to save the Fatherland and the white race from the "class struggle" of Socialism.
And sure enough "class warfare" is one of their favorite attacks. Are they deliberately drawing on Third Reich themes? Is this a complete lack of self awareness? Or have the Birchers recycleds these tropes so often that American right wingers think they invented them? We can find any number of GOPer using the "class warfare" talking point.
Yeah Paul, why don't you take that weak shit to the park and tell it to the squirrels? Maybe they'll care.
Another constant theme is "envy," which has been tossed around by a lot of people including Rand Paul.
Gee Rand where have we seen "envy" theme this before? Oh yeah, Mein Kampf
.......With infinite shrewdness he fans the need for social justice, somehow slumbering in every white man, into hatred against those who have been better favored by fortune, ..... He establishes the Marxist doctrine. (Mein Kampf p349) ...."
as well as Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post. Nice jack boots, Jenny!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Hope springs eternal on the left that Americans will pick up the cudgel of class envy and demand Wall Street executives go to jail, the rich have their savings confiscated (during their lifetimes and upon death) and the state accept us all as wards.
And you know Beck will always be there accusing the "liberal media" of "treason."
You can probably guess who else liked to attack the liberal press for their treasonous ways.
The so-called liberal press was actively engaged in digging the grave of the German people and the German Reigh...their function is only to break the people's national and patriotic backbone....the bourgeois-democratic newspapers knew how to give an appearance of their famous objectivity...which should never lead to an infringement of the "freedom of the press" - their term for poisoning and lying to the people. (Mien kampf p243-245) It is this press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation. (Mein Kampf p323)
And where do jobs come from? Why from the 1%, the "job creators." Strongly antiunion, they are a breed apart. You might say that they are an aristocracy based on their superior personalities.
On several different topics, the annoying orange sounds more than a little like Uncle Adolph
.......The Jewish doctrine of Marxism rejects the aristocratic principle of Nature and replaces the eternal privilege of power and strength by the mass of numbers and their dead weight. Thus it denies the value of personality in man, contests the significance of nationality and race, and thereby withdraws from humanity the premise of its existence and its culture. (Mein kampf)
The protesters are connected by a global web of conspiracy, probably headed by George Soros. Of course, this theme of a global Jewish conspiracy against the productive whites is at the heart of Nazism.
This is also the heart of Glenn Beck's medicine show, and he has always used chalkboard talks to literally draw lines showing how everything center to left-of-center is an interconnected global conspiracy. Here Glenn turns his keen eye on OWS.
The point is that this is straight out of Mein Kampf, where Hitler says it is esential to lump all polotocal opponents into a single category to focus the public's hatred.
"........The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.(Mein Kampf, p118)....."
And of course, they have to claim #OWS is motivated by pure anti-Americanism. They seem to be aiming at a sort of "stabbed in the back" myth (Dolchstosslegende) - that all of the Fatherland's problems resulted from sabotage by some Enemy Within
I don't have a video for the Dolchstosslegende, but here's more about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
And here is an image worth including because it uses a Nazi theme to attack Obama as soft on Israel.
http://theamericanjingoist.net/...
Then we have Fox News trotting out libertarian Thomas Sowell to call the protesters "parasites." Cenk breaks it down for us:
Again, this is a favorite theme of fascists. I'm being pretty lazy here because I could provide a lot more examples.
Even though the rage of the people sometimes flares high against the eternal blood-sucker (Mein Kampf p310) The end is not only the end of the freedom of the peoples oppressed by the Jew, but also the end of this parasite upon the nations. After the death of his victim, the vampire sooner or later dies too. (Mein Kampf p323)
And of course they want to "destroy the economy." Herman Cain has doubled down on that one.
(The international Jewish-Marxist conspiracy goal is ) the national economy which must be demolished....... (Mein Kampf p349)
Then there's the many people who used the themes of filth and garbage. You've propbably seen right wing refer to "democRATS." These images of filthy vermin are also frequently used in propaganda piece like "The Eternal Jew," and this Jew hunting Nazi in "Inglorious Bastards." I can't say that this theme has been used by the GOP's national leadership, but it's fairly common among the base.
Bonus
Here's a short version suitable for cutting and pasting. Enjoy!
Classic Nazi themes are being used to attack the OWS. These strategies were mainly antisemitic, but were also applied to the liberals who the Jews supposedly controlled.
Driven by "envy." (Boehner, Hitler)
"Class warfare" will wreck the country (Cantor, Rand Paul, Hitler)
Call them "parasites" (Thomas Sowell, Hilter)
Plotting to "destroy the economy" (Herman Cain, Hitler, more Herman Cain)
International Marxist conspiracy (Glenn Beck, Hitler)
Jewish puppetmaster aka Soros (Glenn Beck, Hitler)
Plotting to "destroy the economy" (Glenn Beck, Hitler)
Liberals plotting a genocidal end game (Glenn Beck, Hitler)
Unpatriotic, the country has been "stabbed in the back." (O'Reilly, Hitler)
A product of the "liberal press" and their "treason" (Glenn Beck, Hitler)
The unions will ruin the country
Dirty diseased
Promiscuity