ADullAche

I should have seen this coming. I’ve been around the edges of it for years now. After watching the Bush machine slowly grind America into a second-rate debtor nation, I figured we were on our way to becoming Great Britain or France. I even thought – if the Chinese decided to call in our $9 trillion note or trade in Euros instead of dollars – we had a shot at becoming Argentina. So how did I miss we’re already Germany. I’m not talking about post-Communist once again whole Germany; I’m referring to the goose-stepping, Poland invading nation of yore.

For those of you who are history-challenged, that would be bad old Nazi Germany.

And I’m not blaming it all on Bush, although he did get the ball rolling by invading a sovereign nation which had done us no harm. Like Germany’s push for world domination back in the ‘40’s, the war is dragging on, he’s broken the army, he’s destroyed the economy, and he’s is actually less popular than the German leader of the time – he’s also hiding in a bunker waiting for the end.

But it’s bigger than just Dubya, (not that his stone and barbed wire fence along the southern border should bring anything to mind: “Papers, you hef papers, ya.”)

If you squint, you’d swear Karl Rove is Joseph Goebbles reincarnated. Goebbles was the Nazi propaganda boss, and there isn’t a trick he used that wasn’t picked up and improved upon by Rove. The politics of hate and separation, well, Rove isn’t all that bright, and now we know where it came from.

And it’s bigger still.

Republican nominee and iron man, John McBush, has embraced Catholic-hating minister John Hagee. Back in the Tag, next to Jews, the German boss had a real dislike of Catholics.

Even Billary got into the act with a bit of racial distrust. Some of it coded, “Obama can’t win with white working people,” some of it not, “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina.” See, if you can’t scare voters with white folk, scare ‘em with a black guy.

We have the anti-gay stormtroopers gearing up for another fight and, if you’re still not convinced, Mississippi – always a bastion of liberal good sense – recently introduced legislation making it illegal for restaurants to sell food to fat people. (The obese rarely look good in those tight uniforms and jackboots…although the black is slimming.)

And finally.

“His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”

I thought it was Fearless Non-Golfing Leader Bush too, but it’s a report from WWII, from the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to C.I.A.) called “Hitler
As His Associates Know Him.”

Sometimes I just hate being right…

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