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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Taro who wrote (230620)4/25/2005 10:17:10 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (3) of 1572405
 
Re: Far from considering Nazism oppressive, most Germans thought of it as warm-hearted, asserts Goetz Aly.

Hitler famously quipped, "it's a blessing for the leaders that the people do not think."

It was quite an intelligent observation of the nature of the people.

The German people clearly approved of and admired Hitler in the late 1930s, since he manipulated and then catered to their desires.

One of the more bizarre situations in that era was the Gulag in the Soviet Union. I've heard that many people who were imprisoned in the gulags actually wrote to their "Father" Joe Stalin to ask his intercession in their imprisonment. Remarkably, thousands of people never understood that it was Stalin who was responsible for their incarceration, and they maintained an admiration for Stalin until their demise.

I feel that much the same sort of psychological malaise is occurring in America today. Far too many people see the problems that they face in their own lives, and find that they are struggling more and more each month with increasingly expensive fuel, health, housing and food costs yet they love George Bush and completely fail to comprehend that many of Bush's policies are actually very hurtful of Americans in general. I've heard loyal Republicans on honest call-in shows like C-SPAN's Washington Journal state how much they hate Bush's policies, while they remain completely loyal to their Party and their leader. It's really a pathetic spectacle of human weakness.
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