{"id":165700,"date":"2020-07-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=165700"},"modified":"2020-07-26T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T07:23:29","slug":"what-caused-americans-to-become-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/07\/what-caused-americans-to-become-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"What Caused Americans to Become Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

26 Jul 2020 – <\/em>The U.S. does vastly more foreign invasions and political subversions, coups, around the world than any other nation. None of the countries we\u2019ve invaded and overthrown had ever invaded the U.S. \u2014 these are all brutal international aggressions, and they have destroyed each of the countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and numerous others.<\/p>\n

The coups that the U.S. perpetrated have likewise destroyed many countries, starting in Thailand in 1948, then Syria in 1949, then Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, and extending right up to the U.S. coup in Ukraine in February 2014<\/a>, after which Ukraine\u2019s GDP plunged by 50% and stayed down for years<\/a> and still hasn\u2019t recovered from the civil war and other destruction that the U.S. government caused in that country.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, repeatedly, in 2013, and in 2017<\/a>, and even going back as far as 2003<\/a>, global polling around the world has shown that the U.S. comes out way on top for being the \u201cbiggest threat to peace\u201d of any nation on the planet \u2014 and it\u2019s cited for that vastly more frequently than is any of the countries that the USA has invaded or threatens to invade, or calls an \u2018enemy\u2019, is. If Americans don\u2019t know this fact that every American needs to know, then it\u2019s because our \u2018news\u2019-media hide it from us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And, yet, ever since 2001, when we invaded and destroyed Afghanistan, and even more in 2003 when we invaded and destroyed Iraq, the most respected of all institutions by the American people is its military<\/a>, which is the chief agency of U.S. curse upon the rest of the world; so, why are Americans so supportive of this blatantly evil government \u2014 especially<\/em> of its military?<\/em>\u00a0 Are Americans insane, or instead deceived?<\/p>\n

Nazism isn\u2019t just a dead political party that was German and hated Jews; it is actually an ideology, a type of fascism which is bigoted against some group or groups, and which proudly invades and uses other aggressive means against foreign nations that characterize themselves as accepting whatever that bigoted-against group is \u2014 be they Jews, or Russians, or Blacks, or \u201cChinks,\u201d or whatever.<\/p>\n

In other words: Nazism, the ideology, is hyper-aggressive, and it is heavily bigoted. It is also very militaristic. The world\u2019s leading Nazi country today is certainly the U.S.A. And, as Barack Obama repeatedly said, America is the ONLY \u201cindispensable\u201d country<\/a>; all others<\/em> are \u201cdispensable.\u201d And, yet, Obama is popular amongst not only Americans, but in many countries. He was a charming person; Hitler, of course, was not (even though his \u201cDeutschland \u00fcber alles<\/em>\u201d<\/a> was similar to Obama\u2019s American version). And now America has Trump.<\/p>\n

This bigotry and international aggression distinguishes Nazism from mere fascism, such as ruled in Spain under Franco. He wasn\u2019t interested in foreign conquest, but only in conquering Spaniards (and anyone else in Spain) who resisted his rule. So, he was only<\/em> a fascist.<\/p>\n

Mussolini was an imperialistic fascist, as Hitler was, but he wasn\u2019t nearly as bigoted as Hitler; and so Mussolini, like Franco, is called \u201cfascist,\u201d instead of Nazi.<\/p>\n

A public\u2019s answer to the question, \u201cWho was the most evil person in all of history?\u201d draws out, and even personifies, their value-system, by defining personally whom the most evil individual was; and so it\u2019s an extremely important variable to track in each country, and in each year; but, unfortunately, social scientists tend not to be especially intelligent, and so no scientific poll has yet been done on this key question in the social sciences, \u201cWho was the most evil person in all of history?\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the New York Post<\/em>, which naturally has almost entirely a NYC audience, did do a poll (no detailed methodology described for it), and headlined on 17 November 1999, \u201cPOST READERS: HITLER WAS MOST EVIL\u201d<\/a> and reported that, \u201cThe votes are in: Adolf Hitler is the most evil person of the millennium, and Thomas Edison is the most influential, according to a poll of The Post<\/em>\u2019s online users.\u201d<\/p>\n

Someone headlined about it, \u201cTop 25 Most Evil People of the Millennium\u201d<\/a> and provided considerably more details of that poll. The top ten \u201cmost evil\u201d persons in it were: 1. Adolf Hitler at 1,664 votes; 2 Bill Clinton (write-in) at 1,625 votes; 3. Joseph Stalin at 1,284 votes; 4. Pol Pot at 919 votes; 5. Dr. Joseph Mengele at 783 votes; 6. Hillary Clinton (write-in) at 765 votes; 7. Saddam Hussein at 710 votes; 8. Adolf Eichmann at 641 votes; 9. Charles Manson at 548 votes; and 10. Idi Amin at 514 votes.<\/p>\n

Obviously, since both of the Clintons were high on that list, this was a very Republican readership, and the poll has no scientific respectability, but probably Hitler would have scored at the top of it even if the poll had been scientific and nationwide. Furthermore, Wikipedia has a \u201cTalk: Adolf Hitler\/Archive 54\u201d that includes a discussion \u201cWorld\u2019s Most Evil Person\u201d<\/a>; and, obviously, Hitler is heavily in contention for that title.<\/p>\n

Hitler provided the model of Nazism, because he was the extremity not only of imperialism, but of bigotry. Though no scientific poll has yet been done on the terribly important social-science question \u201cWho was the most evil person in all of history?\u201d Hitler certainly is (to put it mildly) extremely unpopular. And, yet, Americans today display more of his values than the values of America\u2019s President at that same time, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was intensely opposed to imperialism, not only by Germany, Italy, and Japan, but also by England, and by any country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By contrast to FDR, recent American presidents are strongly in favor of U.S. invading countries that never even threatened it, such as Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011, Syria in 2012, and threatening Iran almost constantly, and repeatedly trying coups in Venezuela and many other countries that never even threatened the U.S.<\/p>\n

There has been a sharp increase in the American public\u2019s support for war, even perhaps war against the other nuclear superpower, Russia, because of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama, who craved in 2013 to take over Ukraine and to take over Russia\u2019s largest naval base, which is in Crimea<\/a>. Consequently, with the cooperation of all of US war-thirsting news-media (that must be virtually owned by the same people who own firms such as Lockheed Martin), the polling on approval-disapproval of Russia<\/a> went from 50% Favorable and 44% Unfavorable in 2012, to reversing those percentages in 2013, to then suddenly an overwhelming rejection of Russia in 2014: only 34% Favorable, and a massive 60% Unfavorable \u2014 and it has been even worse than that, ever since.<\/p>\n

So the country, USA, whose government in 2013 was secretly scheming to steal Russia\u2019s biggest naval base, has now achieved a rabidly anti-Russian thoroughly duped public, and not only a rabidly pro-military duped one.<\/p>\n

Americans are deeply<\/em> duped \u2014 just like Germans were under Hitler.<\/p>\n

Where the \u2018news\u2019-media are this bad, what else<\/em> can happen?<\/p>\n

___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 <\/em>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/a>,<\/em> of\u00a0<\/em>Christ\u2019s Ventriloquists: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>, and\u00a0of<\/em>\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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