Richard Mourdock compares U.S. economic woes to Nazi Germany

[Destro]

he sure does have a way with words

Richard Mourdock compares U.S. economic woes to Nazi Germany - TheIndyChannel.com

 

[mrjarrell]

He's got a serious case of foot in mouth disease. He just keeps cementing the fact that he'll never be elected to anything substantial. Hope his latest dumbassery doesn't hurt his protege's chances to be the next treasurer. By all accounts she's actually well qualified and sane.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I don't see what he said as being bad. My history on the rise of the nazi party is a bit rusty. But he's right about politicians promising more and more freebies when we're drowning in debt.

People are quick to hit the knee-jerk-reaction button when somebody utters the "n" word. Murdoch should know that but it doesn't necessarily means he's entirely wrong. That's politics.

 

[Destro]

I don't see what he said as being bad. My history on the rise of the nazi party is a bit rusty. But he's right about politicians promising more and more freebies when we're drowning in debt.

People are quick to hit the knee-jerk-reaction button when somebody utters the "n" word. Murdoch should know that but it doesn't necessarily means he's entirely wrong. That's politics.

It really doesn't matter how right he is. If he couldn't articulate his point without drawing the comparison, he shouldn't have made it. It might have been just fine in the barber shop, but he was not speaking in a barber shop.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

It really doesn't matter how right he is. If he couldn't articulate his point without drawing the comparison, he shouldn't have made it. It might have been just fine in the barber shop, but he was not speaking in a barber shop.

Can't pretend like there isn't this sort of newspeak protocol out there but this is a so much ado about nothing.

 

[dcr465]

Every person that voted for this idiot instead of Sen Richard Lugar should be embarrassed

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Yup, take on debt, next you know you're shoving Jews in an oven and invading your neighbors.

Japan's national debt to GDP is double ours, so they should start any time now.

 

[mrjarrell]

Every person that voted for this idiot instead of Sen Richard Lugar should be embarrassed

I really hope you've got asbestos underwear on. You're gonna need it.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

So, when I see Lugar's name next to a "yea" on senate vote #375 on Nov. 17, 1993, that's ok? Go suck a sellout.

 

[bmyers]

Every person that voted for this idiot instead of Sen Richard Lugar should be embarrassed

This is is quite possibly one of the most absurd things I've seen on here in a long time. Heaven forbid someone make a comment drawing a comparison between the rise of the Nazi party and the direction we are headed now. This is on all fronts, not just economic.

Anyone who who disagrees with this should do a little research on history as well as current times. We shouldn't hang a politician out to dry every time they tell the truth. Sometimes it is ok to just tell the truth. Even if you are a "politician"

 

[BehindBlueI's]

This is is quite possibly one of the most absurd things I've seen on here in a long time. Heaven forbid someone make a comment drawing a comparison between the rise of the Nazi party and the direction we are headed now. This is on all fronts, not just economic.

Anyone who who disagrees with this should do a little research on history as well as current times. We shouldn't hang a politician out to dry every time they tell the truth. Sometimes it is ok to just tell the truth. Even if you are a "politician"

I disagree, and I've done a little research. Now what?

Care to enlighten us how 2008-2014 USA is like 1920's through 1930's Germany on all fronts? I'm particularly interested in our equivalent of a master race and extreme nationalism.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Every person that voted for this idiot instead of Sen Richard Lugar should be embarrassed

No. I'm not embarrassed.

 

[Destro]

I disagree, and I've done a little research. Now what?

Care to enlighten us how 2008-2014 USA is like 1920's through 1930's Germany on all fronts? I'm particularly interested in our equivalent of a master race and extreme nationalism.

 

[ViperJock]

He basically said that the Nazis ran on an entitlement platform and so do the Dems. I'm trying hard to find an inconsistency there. He did neglect to say that 90% of modern politicians run on some version of the same platform. What he said is basically true but it was said in a deceitful and reactionary way. I'd like to ask the left where the outrage is when conservatives are compared to Hitler. Pot meet Kettle. Hypocrites and liars all.

 

[Expat]

It was the National Socialist party. We have in the Dems another socialist party and in the Repubs, a sort of socialist lite.
So the comparison seems fairly appropriate. Remember the glee of the dependency class when BHO got elected. They were under the impression he was going to buy them all houses, cars, phones, etc. They elected him fully believing so. Now the Dems hint at college loan relief. The Dems and some of the Repubs hint to the illegals they might get amnesty and the resulting benefits.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

It was the National Socialist party.

...in a crowded field of non-nationalistic socialist and communist parties, most of which were further left than the burgeoning Nazi party. They were not the only party campaigning on socialism, and not the most hard core socialists. Their draw was nationalism and the resulting call for expansionism, and Aryan superiority over "lesser" races, which they could scape goat for the problems facing working class "pure" Germans.

Which is why its not an appropriate comparison.

 

[calcot7]

Every person that voted for this idiot instead of Sen Richard Lugar should be embarrassed

Wait..........What?

 

[MisterChester]

It was the National Socialist party. We have in the Dems another socialist party and in the Repubs, a sort of socialist lite.
So the comparison seems fairly appropriate. Remember the glee of the dependency class when BHO got elected. They were under the impression he was going to buy them all houses, cars, phones, etc. They elected him fully believing so. Now the Dems hint at college loan relief. The Dems and some of the Repubs hint to the illegals they might get amnesty and the resulting benefits.

Nazis were not socialist by any means. It was just a moniker to get voters to support them because a good number of them were socialist sympathizers. If they really were socialist they would have never attacked the USSR.

 

[Expat]

Nazis were not socialist by any means. It was just a moniker to get voters to support them because a good number of them were socialist sympathizers. If they really were socialist they would have never attacked the USSR.

I am sure you are correct but Von Mises seems to disagree with you.

The second pattern [of socialism] (we may call it the Hindenburg or German pattern) nominally and seemingly preserves private ownership of the means of production, and keeps the appearance of ordinary markets, prices, wages, and interest rates. These are, however, no longer entrepreneurs, but only shop managers (Betriebsführer in the terminology of the Nazi legislation). These shop managers are seemingly instrumental in the conduct of the enterprises entrusted to them; they buy and sell, hire and discharge workers and remunerate their services, contract debts and pay interest and amortization. But in all their activities they are bound to obey unconditionally the orders issued by the government's supreme office of production management. This office (theReichswirtschaftsministerium in Nazi Germany) tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

https://mises.org/daily/3274

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Nazis were not socialist by any means. It was just a moniker to get voters to support them because a good number of them were socialist sympathizers. If they really were socialist they would have never attacked the USSR.

That's incorrect. Remembering that capitalist/socialist/communist is a sliding scale, not neat boxes, the Nazis were socialists. Not as socialist as some of their competition, and the party plank certainly evolved over the decades, but they most certainly were a flavor of socialist. The USSR was communist, and regardless one of the Nazi party's defining tenants was nationalism and, as a result, foreign conquest.

The foundation of the Nazi party was heavily influence by groups of anti-communist fighters as they formed their political party, and then campaigned against the German Communist Party in elections. They would certainly be no friends of Communist party ruled nations when their roots and their party platform was anti-Communist.