By Steve McCann
I recently wrote a column wherein
I accused the American Left and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Democrat
party, of using Fascist or Nazi tactics in their determination to permanently
transform the nation into a one-party hybrid socialist state by exploiting
nonexistent “systemic racism” and baseless fears of “white supremacy.”
This characterization did not set well with the gullible and
self-righteous Democrat voters I know or those who contacted me. They,
rather vociferously, claimed that the utilization of Nazi tactics only applies
to the American right and that they, the left, are only motivated by caring for
the people.
However, any thoughtful and unemotional examination of
the tactics the Nazi Party used to gain and maintain power in the 1920’s and
30’s will reveal numerous stark similarities to those being used by the left
and the Democrat Party today.
First, racial division was a
central component of Nazi political strategy and philosophy. The Nazi
Party was, without doubt, the most racially obsessed political party in human
history. Today’s Democrat party is second only to the Nazi Party in their
racial obsession. Every piece of legislation, every accusation
against their opponents, every aspect of American society, even weather and
climate is framed in racism.
The Nazi Party’s obsession with race focused on their
perverted belief in the inferiority and superiority of the races. This opened
the door for blaming various racial groups for all the problems facing the
country. The American left are claiming the root cause of virtually
all problems facing the nation is “systemic racism” as theoretically instigated
by one particular race.
This obsession with race led to what is now often
referred to as “identity politics.” Identity politics was not invented by
the modern American left. It was, in fact, a weapon in the arsenal of the
Nazi Party. As the Nazis, using the national media they controlled,
sliced and diced the populace into specific identity groups and then
promulgated grievance-riddled policies aimed at these manufactured factions in
order to foment anger at a specific identity group previously isolated by the
party, the Jews. The Democrat party and the left, using the so-called
mainstream media, is doing the same among their manufactured identity groups
(as defined by race or sexual orientation or ethnicity) in order to foment
anger and isolate a specific group: white, heterosexual Christians.
Second, the Nazi Party was fixated
on censorship and eliminating any cultural institution, publication or speech
that did not fully support them. In other words, their version of today’s
“cancel culture.” The Nazis were notorious for book-burning rituals
in order to intimidate and send the message that they would shut down anyone
and anything that did not align with their ideology. Once in control of
the national levers of powers, they did so with impunity. The
American left is figuratively burning books as it uses social media mobs as the
vehicle to send the message that they will shut down anyone or anything that
does not align with their ideology.
Third, the Nazis perfected the
art of indoctrinating the citizenry through propaganda and “fake news.”
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, is credited with saying: “If you
tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to
believe it.” and “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which government
can play.”
This strategy has been and continues to be used to great
success by the American left and their fellow travelers in the mainstream
(Democrat) media. Whether it is the Russian collusion hoax, the so-called
armed insurrection on January 6, 2021, climate change as an existential threat
to mankind, suppression of voting rights, white supremacy running rampant, the
necessity of lockdowns for the Covid pandemic or a myriad of other
fabrications, they left lies with impunity as a means to their ends… as did the
Nazis.
Fourth, the Nazis, true
to socialist ideology, preyed on class envy to stoke tensions and resentment as
they blamed the “Junker Class” (the equivalent of today’s “one percent”) for
the nation’s economic woes. The American left and the Democrat
party hierarchy, true to socialist ideology, has long blamed the evil one
percent or greedy billionaires for income and economic inequality in order to
foment class envy and resentment.
But the similarity does not end there. In an
extraordinary juxtaposition the Nazis were able to vilify the wealthy and the
industrialists while the subjects of their vitriol voluntarily financed the
Nazi Party and its political campaigns. Hitler assured the German
corporate titans that, despite their rhetoric, the Nazis would leave them alone
and award them lucrative contracts if they supported the Party through massive
financial support and favorable newspaper coverage. Greed overcame good
sense, and they did so. These gullible cowards were ultimately
responsible for unleashing the Nazis on an unsuspecting planet.
The American left has established a similar rapport with
the corporate establishment, in particular the tech titans, by tacitly letting
them know that the Democrat party will leave them alone if they financially
support the party. Additionally, their disciples have infiltrated the
management ranks of many companies further exacerbating the pressure to support
the agenda. In the inane belief that they will be left alone by the left
and the Democrat party, the American corporate elites have financed the ascendancy
of the radical left as the left learned their lesson well from the Nazis and
the wealthy elites did not. As virtually all the financial support
for the Democrats to manipulate the 2020 election came from these naïve and
credulous buffoons. Thus, unleashing radical leftism, societal chaos and
a senescent president on the United States.
Fifth, in the 1920’s and early
30’s the Nazi Party routinely relied on street riots, property damage and
gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, the Sturmabteilung (SA), to
project power through intimidation while blaming the communists for the
violence. Every time a riot was met with little or no response from the
established authorities, the more emboldened they became. While the Nazis
ostensibly came to power through the ballot box, their ability to terrorize the
citizenry and national political leadership played a major role as they
promised peace on the streets if elected or given leadership positions in
government.
The American left revealed in the summer of 2020 that
they too have the wherewithal and inclination to provoke street riots, property
damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, Antifa and Black
Lives Matter, to project power through intimidation while blaming white supremacy
and police brutality for the violence. In the presidential campaign
of 2020, the Democrat party implicitly promised peace on the streets if elected
and insinuated there would be renewed violence if not.
Sixth, in
January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Within four
weeks a mysterious fire broke out in the Reichstag (Congress) Building which
they blamed on communist agitators and that this was the opening salvo in a
violent coup. Using this pretext, the Nazis were able to force through the
Reichstag The Enabling Act of 1933 in March of the same year. This
law embedded the Nazis as the sole dominant political party and ensured that
only the Nazis could win future elections, if any were held. They were
the first modern proponents of never letting a crisis, real or manufactured, to
go to waste.
The left and the Democrat party seized upon the
disturbances at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to proclaim that it was an
“armed insurrection” and the opening salvo in a violent coup attempt by white
supremacists. To further reinforce this false narrative, they
theatrically brought in 20,000 National Guard troops and built fortifications
around the Capitol building. Further following in the footsteps of the
Nazi Party, the Democrats almost immediately pushed to pass H.R. 1
(euphemistically entitled The For The People Act) which would overturn
virtually all existing voter laws, embed the Democrats as the sole dominant
political party and ensure that only the Democrats could win future elections.
This list of parallels between the Nazi Party and the
American left cannot be ignored. These wannabe autocrats, in a de facto
admission, try to obfuscate their adoption of Nazi tactics by shamelessly
claiming that it is the American right or conservatives that have embraced the
Nazis. Yet the right has not utilized or espoused any Nazi tactics in
their quest for political office.
While it goes without saying that I am not insinuating
that the American left and the Democrat Party has the objective of imposing
worldwide dominance via a horrific world war or emulating the horrors of the
Holocaust, it must be acknowledged that there are important
commonalities. The manner in which a small fringe far-left socialist
party was able to rise to power and how the left in America is emulating it
should frighten all Americans.
