Nazi Alert

The Nazi Alert

There is a stunning parallel between the Nazi ideals and their policies and US policies. Things that are said are often the same words representing the same concepts that the Nazi's used. Whenever I come across these parallels I label them with the Swastika to make it plain and clear that this has been done before.

"Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it".
-- Santanyana

Some of the ways a country becomes fascist are:

Demonize your opposition

create and break treaties

be a militaristic society (in self-defense of course)

control peoples lives in a class society

the citizens are subordinated to a strong central power

creating and taking advantage of fervant nationalism

have an overly regulated financial and controlled (money) system - ie income taxes, taxes, federal reserve currency instead of government currency

become overly patriotic to the point the people are easily led to war, convinced that giving up their freedom is a good thing etc.

NOTE: I do not mean to further damage the image of the swastika, which is perhaps the oldest of human symbols, by using it as an alarm. But since the Nazis took it on as their symbol it has come to be a sign of evil. The good intentioned run way amuck is another way to put it.

Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.