The Führer is always right
This goon who said "the president is always right" did an amazing job of stating the guiding philosophy of Nazism called the Führerprinzip. The Führerprinzip is a simple philosophy that has one tenet: "The Führer is Always Right". No wonder Republicans are not bothered by the contradictions in their own beliefs.
posted by M Dangermond at 4:45 PM
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One wonders whether the comment was an intentional coded remark.
11:52 AM
Story as old as the hills -- the authoritarian supporters take comfort in empty heads nostalgic for an imagined past, angry hearts directed at a simplistically depicted enemy, and lock step unity. These are the lemmings that go off the cliff, never noticing the fox directing the march.
The Left? Circular Firing Squad. Friction Faction Friction Faction, boy oh boy we love our right to remain skeptical, and D0N'T you DARE tell ME what to THINK, you god damn (insert highly defined ideological fixation here). These are the lemmings that like the bumper car rides, and are absolutely against anyone telling them which bumber car they HAVE to ride in when the ride is in motion, so they refuse to get in any bumber car at all. (squish squash squish squash).
Ok, that was really dark. I need to go to bed.
Book Pick, Great Book -- Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, "Hubris." Bush's "intellectual" habits and lazy work habits are quite similiar, though Cheney is the one, it seems, that subjects the top teir staff to abuse when they screw up. Hitler was expert at doing that himself. Loved a dramatic shouting session when the top staff couldn't get along.
Key phrase -- "working towards the Führer," key organizational principal of the Führerprinzip. The supreme leader is always right, we have no idea what we are doing, just prove that you are "working toward what the Supreme Leader would (probably) want, but don't cross my bureaucratic turf, contradictions (as you noted) in policy and action results, chaos ensues. Chaos unified (?) by the absolute necessity of suppporting the home team.
Tom Oliphant is now writing a book about Republicans -- great in campaigns, lousy and incompetent in government.
"slomo said...
One wonders whether the comment was an intentional coded remark."
I think you credit them with too much self reflection and intellectual sophistication, in an academic manner. That's a lefty thing. This bastard and those like him are only "intentionally coding remarks" when they are attacking the opposition, although the vast majority require "the one mouthpiece" to tell them what to do. That's the speciality department of the very few message makers at the top -- Rove, Limbaugh, Goebbels. Everyone else just goes, "hell yeah, hell yeah, f*** them!"
Actually, "dumb it down, dumb it down, there you go, GREAT SLOGAN! HEIL!" That's their style. The left has, in the intellectual deparment, a vast array of diverse and competing forces. The far right requires an abosulte minimum of strategy guys, and legions of followers.
Anyway, hold tight people, I am noticing jitters on the Left. It is possible to be civil yet critical, organised yet diverse, and we do, after all, agree on all the basic stuff.
Just keep saying to yourself -- "Left: Circular firing squad." Then after you shudder, give a lefty you may disagree with a hug.
The only guy "on our side" that deserves rough treatement is Lieberman if he runs as an independent if he loses to Lamont. If Lamont loses, remember, he will support Lieberman. And Lieberman seems to be getting that message pounded into him lately....
When times are dark, I thank the universe for people like Ned Lamont, his supporters, and Russ Feingold.
Peace.
4:58 PM
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