Third Reich Redux: part 2

On the 2/4/05, a parallel was drawn between three axioms of the Third Reich and the M.O. of the Bush Administration.
1. Exaggerate an existing threat
2. Create a Madison Ave slogan to symbolize the threat.
3. Underpin the slogan with a divisiveness message.

Consider axioms four and five.

4) Create the Cult of Deference. By reinforcing faulty premises that President is trustworthy and create imbedded loyalty to Administration team.

Then: Reich marshals crafted legislation giving Hitler control of civil liberties cited earlier in Scatablog
Now: Circumventing the constitution to keep us safe

5) Control of the Media to reinforce 1-3, especially 3 including ghoulish exploitation of the events connected to the exaggerated threat
Then: -Sudetenland welkomen -Goebbels big lie
Now: -Iraq sees US as saviors -Fox News-GOP propaganda arm

Examples include Chris Matthews and Tim Russerta. impugning the Out-party media sources, i.e. NYT leaked the Plame story.

Necessary Conditions for 3rd Reich Redux

Those of unwarranted faith in U.S. voters do not want to be reminded of Mencken’s classic statement: "no one ever lost a fortune (or an election) underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

What is underpinning the Third Reich Redux?

1. Declining educational base of the US voting public abided by government intrusion into academic discourse. Example: a right wing fringe of PA legislators tried to pass a bill in the PA legislature to muzzle professors deemed to be “politically biased.” Burn those text books while you are at it.

2. Apathy of US voting public, including the contrast of Gen Y “give me my TV, don’t cut my services or raise my taxes" apathy with the Baby Boom political protesters.

3. Fatalism driven non-resistance. The old cope out that one vote can’t alter a large system.