I wonder if he thinks that the Nazi swastika needs to be kept alive as well.
Yes why not? this is a good irritant. My father would have reminded me of how many bullet holes he had put into swastika marked wings, but he would not have favored repeal of the first admendment any more than I.
The Nazi ideology that many Germans voted for was against the rampant inflation of the German economy, which collapsed because of the huge WWI reparations Germany was forced to pay. The Nazis started huge building projects, like the autobahns, draining swamps, building airports and putting millions of people to work again.
worked for FDR too.
Of course, this was done by taking money from the Jews, many of whom profited when impoverished Germans pawned their gold and other valuables. Jews were seen as unpatriotic opportunists. Most of them were not, but the ones the Germans borrowed money from were not likely to complain when the government shut them down and used the money to create jobs..
FDR did most of his work on credit, which had a completely different downside than robbing a minority had, pretty soon we were accepting payments from the empires of Britain and the Soviet Union so the credit bet paid off very well.
Of course, the Nazis went from bad to worse, and the premise of the Nazi Party was racist and based on exploiting a minority that was helpless to defend itself.
Rather like the Confederate States of America.
I will accept this, not because I like it , but because it is largely the truth . Sometimes the truth is what it is.
Hitler copied a LOT of his ideas from the Americans: The Pennsylvania Turnpike inspired the Autobahns, the Model T inspired the Volkswagen (originally called the Kraft Durch Freude ~ Strength through Joy), The American Eugenics movement inspired the elimination of mentally and physically impaired people, and the labor camps staffed with members of "inferior races" were inspired by American slavery. Nazism can be seen as the Dark Side of American Progress..
Don't forget how inspiring Gobbles found American skill at propaganda.
Prior to the Civil War, it is usually ignored that the South won a lot of victories over the North in the courts. The Dred Scott decision made it possible for slaveholders to bring their slaves to the North, it made kidnapping free Black and enslaving them a very lucrative occupation, and the South was very close to making California effectively a slave state..
The South probably should not have panicked so badly at the election of a Republican , if Lincoln had been the president of the USA with a surly but still loyal south progress might have occurred at mush less cost, at a much slower pace.
The North was NOT persecuting the South, other than requiring Southern ports to pay the usual taxes on imports and the like into the federal government. .
This is hardly all they ever did.
The South fired the first shot, not the North. .
Fighting was a mutual choice, if the Northern force had withdrawn peacefully the Civil War might have been put off for a generation.
The guy who wrote this will not be disappointed. All that has happened is that the Rebel flag has been banned from PUBLIC places. Any fool can still stick it on his bumper, fly the flag from his yard, have it tattooed anywhere he chooses on his body, and this is sure to continue.
I would not be surprised if we start seeing more and more Rebel flags all over the place..
Very astute.
Just as gun nuts felt threatened and bought more guns after Obama was elected, they will feel that their Rebel flag is threatened, and there will be no shortage of flags available, once importers get rolling printing up the things. After Juniorbush declared his stupid useless war. one out of three cars in Miami had American flags fluttering from them. Now you don't see any. It was a fad and it died out.
The Rebel flag will multiply, become a fad for a short time, and die out in pretty much the same way.
It will continue to linger, as Klan hoods and trappings have lingered. Every year it will be more irrelevant.
The political relevance of the Confederate Battle Flag is already mooted, it has not had a real political friend for twenty years, I heard Governor Barnes being interviewed on GPB yesterday and he is not at all sorry yet.
So suppose it does fade into the mists of history , seldom seen outside of museums.
What is the better symbol ?
It has been suggested that Southern White people should choose a new symbol , one less stained with shameful deeds .
Ok What? In spite of our history , I don't think we want to fly the blank flag.
