Forty years ago (1980s), the only general place where you would have heard 'Nazi' uttered was at some history class, a VFW bar for WW II vets, or some television documentary piece over the 1930s/1940s. Today? Nazi gets uttered at least forty times a day via CNN, or the dozen other new networks of 'worth'.
I sat last year listening to some dimwit intellectual who spent a good eight minutes talking about far-right extremism of the 1930s and the Nationalist Socialist Party. I was kinda surprised because in the truth of the matter....the Nazi Party was left, and to some degree....far-left. You can review the listing of party platforms in 1920, and later in 1930....with the bulk (not all) being left-of-center or extreme liberal promises.
To some degree, we have thousands of intellectuals walking around today, who seem to be attached to the term 'Nazi' and like to use it to emphasize matters of importance. George Bush was a Nazi.....I was told this at least three-hundred times over the 2000 to 2008 period. If you count up all the people identified just in the US and UK, there's at least twelve-million Nazis existing today.
So this brings me to this remarkable view of the term 'Nazi'....it's over-used, and probably the bulk of people trying to use it.....have no real identifiable understanding of the party, or their 'promises'. You can't even be sure that these people attended history classes, or ever read a book over Hitler, or the 1920s. We are being dragged into some comical world where things just aren't the way described.
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