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ScatablogThird Reich Redux

In winter 2001, some friends scoffed at my observation that the Bush Administration possessed the uncomfortable trappings of Hitler’s Third Reich (TR). The events since have induced several to concur with my observation. Consider the following Third Reich axioms to power and the parallels to the Bush Administration (BA):

Exaggerate an existing threat
To validate the claim of global terrorism as an imminent threat to the U.S., the BA manufactured evidence, i.e., WMD, Al Qaeda link to Hussein and Nigerian Uranium to Iraq, all proven false by credible sources, i.e. UN, 911 Commission, and, the claim that Terrorists were under every other rock reminiscent of the TR propaganda that communists and French agents were nefariously crawling about Germany, borrowing heavily from a previous mentor, Otto von Bismarck.

Create a Madison Ave slogan to symbolize the threat.
To build a brand image for the threat, the BA borrowed (see Now below) again from the TR (see Then below)
Then -Lebensraum -the future belongs to you
Now -We are at war –they want to kill us -Axis of Evil

Underpin the slogan with a divisiveness message.
Again, borrowing heavily from mentor von Bismarck, BA orchestrated by Karl von Rove, BA implemented a political campaign to turn factions of U.S. society against each other in order to put a collage of extremist groups into the GOP camp. TR on the ground enforcement was used as an implementation aid, i.e. voter harassment (2000 in FL and 2004 in OH). The result was that values (gays) with cult trappings fanned by extreme factions of the religious right trumped issues of survival (health care).

FACTIONS ACTIONS
Then -Jews, gypsies -Glassnacht
Now -gays, anti-abortionists -GOP FL 2000 election goon squad

4. Undermine voting public commitment to underlying values of democracy. Several key values were targeted.
a. Separation of church & state.
The first blow was BA proposal of a Constitutional Amendment v. gay marriage served the dual purpose of 1) challenging separation and 2. reinforcing the divisiveness strategy. To aid implementation, $2 Bill tax money diverted to religious organizations.
b. Separation of powers.
The second blow was a campaign by the GOP right wing in Congress to override the Judiciary, exemplified by the meddling by Congress in the Scalvo case and the discredited Tom DeLay threatening to take over the judiciary. and outlaw abortion