By Lee Cary ——Bio and Archives--May 7, 2021
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The title of an article posted here on September 18, 2018 read:
“When it ends, where will all the hate [inside the Democrat Party] go?”
No answer was offered; it was too soon to know. But, on 9 November 2016, the day after Trump won, we began to see where Democrat hate was headed. We know where Nazi hate went after Germany lost World War I.
The “stab-in-the-back” meme focused Nazi Party hatred
They hated the Jews enough to exterminate them with obscene cruelty, while many among the German people remained silently complicit in the carnage. At the end, the Third Reich was kaput. What both political parties, the Nazis and today’s Democrats, had/have in common is the capability and desire to traffic in fake memes shaped to their advantage. On 21 October 1918, a young German soldier named Adolf Hitler was recovering from a gas attack when he learned of the defeat of Germany that prompted a revolution. He called it “the greatest villainy of the century”.
What both political parties, the Nazis and today’s Democrats, had/have in common is the capability and desire to traffic in fake memes shaped to their advantage.............the “stab-in-the-back” meme felt betrayed by Germany’s surrender. Many joined the Nazi Party. ............“In reality, of course, there had been no treachery, no stab-in-the-back. This was…a legend the Nazis would use as a central element of their propaganda armoury. Unrest at home was a consequence, not a cause, of military failure. Germany had been militarily defeated and was close to the end of its tether – though nothing had prepared people for capitulation. In fact, triumphalist propaganda was still coming from the High Command in late October 1918.”...........To Read More....
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