E. Rowell: Hitler gained political influence by experiencing himself and all Germans as victims. He believed that Jews and Slavs had knifed Germans in the back and cowardly accepted defeat in World War I. The problem with experiencing oneself as a victim is that you are unable to limit or control the amount of rage you feel towards your victimizer. Thus railing against Jews was not enough, only complete genocide could help him contain his rage. Now the democrats and uniparty RINOs in the US are using the victim stance again, this time it is the so-called “Palestinians,” who are victims of Israeli aggression. Once again there is never enough violence that can be generated by people who see themselves as victims. Once again, they feel ridding the world of Jews is the answer to their rage.
By Steve McCann, AMERICAN THINKER 26 March 2024
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Following the lead of the Communists in the Soviet Union, the American Left for three-quarters of a century has been incessantly and mindlessly accusing Conservatives, and anyone opposed to their statist agenda, of being Nazis. Which, together with the accusation of racism, has become the ultimate invective.
As history is always written by the victors, the Soviet Union, an ally of the Nazi Germany from 1939-41, sought to obfuscate its role in initiating the Second World War. They, with the cooperation of United States and Great Britain, succeeded in recasting National Socialism, or Nazism, as being on the right-wing of the political spectrum. A recasting American and European academics eagerly adopted and embedded into the post-war political psyche.
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