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  • redneckmedic

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    • I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.

    • I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.

    • Later in life, questions arose over my real name..

    • My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

    • I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

    • I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.

    • That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.

    • I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

    • I became active in local politics in my 30's then with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything. That reinforced my conceit.

    • I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.

    • I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.

    • At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.

    • But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.

    • I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.

    • I called mine "A People's Campaign" and that sounded good to all people.

    • I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.

    • I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope' , together we could change our country and the world.

    • So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include "persecuted minorities" like the Jews. My true views were not widely known and I needed to keep them unknown, until after I became my nation's leader.

    • I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.
    I'm glad they didn't.
    I became the most powerful man in the world.
    And the world learned the truth.
    Who am I?



    ADOLF HITLER
    WHO WERE YOU THINKING?
    Frightening isn't it?
     

    Bill of Rights

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    Or it can serve as a warning. In the Weimar Republic, how many would have predicted that AH would go to the extremes to which he eventually went?

    For that matter, how many today will see the similarities and dismiss them as irrelevant...



    Right up until the boxcars are waiting to be loaded? I don't think this will be on the basis of ethnic purity, as Hitler's regime was, but I don't doubt it could happen again.

    "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

    Blessings,
    Bill
     

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    Very true, Bill. It could happen again, and eternal vigilance is the price of our liberty (or what's left of our liberty, but that's another issue).

    It isn't fair to say that "Hitler had idea/trait X, and if someone has idea/trait X, then they're bad/evil/wrong like Hitler," because we can begin to make absurd or irrelevant comparisons. This is, however, unrelated to whether X is a good or bad idea or trait on its own. Many of the items in the list just appear to be coincidences and as they stand on their own without a Hitler reference, are free from any sort of moral judgment.
     

    mattfoley

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    Do we have verification on everything? It seems as if they similarities are amazing, but without verification of the similarities I won't comment further.
     

    SavageEagle

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    It is scary, but I'd seen this before myself. The similarities are scary in their truths.

    I do hope that one day, someone comes along and says these very things, and gets elected, and actually delivers on those promises. In a good way. The things obamatard said on the campaign trail, well, some of them, sounded good. Ending poverty, stopping the economic downturn, etc. Some things he said were blatantly evil. Increasing health care costs to the people, supporting the bailouts, "common sense" gun control, etc. But if he had Ron Paul's platform and his combined, I believe that would be one of the best Presidential Platforms this Country would ever see. Put Reagan, Kennedy, Washington, Jefferson, and Grant all together into one person and we'd have one helluva President. Almost perfect in my mind... :D
     

    SavageEagle

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    Do we have verification on everything? It seems as if they similarities are amazing, but without verification of the similarities I won't comment further.

    Do a little diggin on Hitlers early years. Even read a little "My Life" or "Mein Compf" (Sp?). They are very much correct.
     

    Joe Williams

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    Do we have verification on everything? It seems as if they similarities are amazing, but without verification of the similarities I won't comment further.

    Crack open some history books and decide for yourself. Hitler's rise is documented somewhat better than Dear Leader's is, so you should be able to get your questions answered to your satisfaction.
     

    SavageEagle

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