Move over death panels. Now Sarah Palin is tweeting comparisons between President Obama and Adolf Hitler:
...This is about the rule of law vs. an unconstitutional power grab. Read Thomas Sowell's article: http://u.nu/...
Sowell's article, noted yesterday by Barbara Morrill, likens the Obama administration to Hitler's Nazi regime and argues that the $20 billion compensation fund from BP is the latest example. He begins:
When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.
Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler's rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions.
"Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
Put differently, a democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive.
In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it.
I get it! Obama is Hitler, and his "useful idiots" are the people who voted for him, many of whom had never voted before. Brilliant observation!
So what in the world does this have to do with BP? Well, Obama, like Hitler, is a power-thirsty tyrant.
Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund to be provided by BP to compensate people harmed by their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
You see, Hitler murdered millions of innocent victims, and Obama made BP compensate billions to its innocent victims, so clearly, Obama = Hitler and America owes BP an apology. Oh, and what's more, FDR is like Hitler too.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt arbitrarily took the United States off the gold standard, he cited a law passed during the First World War to prevent trading with the country's wartime enemies. But there was no war when FDR ended the gold standard's restrictions on the printing of money.
At about the same time, during the worldwide Great Depression, the German Reichstag passed a law "for the relief of the German people."
That law gave Hitler dictatorial powers that were used for things going far beyond the relief of the German people — indeed, powers that ultimately brought a rain of destruction down on the German people and on others.
If the agreement with BP was an isolated event, perhaps we might hope that it would not be a precedent. But there is nothing isolated about it.
By the end of the article you can see why Sarah Palin loved it so much. It's stupid and offensive enough that she could have written it herself.
On Twitter (apparently the only way to reach Palin unless you work for Fox), Jake Tapper has asked whether she is comfortable with the Obama = Hitler comparison. I doubt she'll respond, but if she does, she's got some serious explaining to do.