Hank Williams Jr. Was Right

By Douglas V. Gibbs

On October 3rd, on Fox News, Hank Williams Jr. said that Obama's pairing with Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner in a June golf summit was "like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."

Everyone was up in arms that the country singer dared mention Obama's name in the same sentence as Hitler's, even though the Left made comparisons of Bush to Hitler constantly during his presidency, and many continue to do so. Because of the comparison ESPN fired Hank Williams Jr. - which means his "Are you ready for some football!" song is gone.

When Leftists compared Bush to Hitler, it was due to Bush's war policies, and the liberals were not shy about calling Bush the author of genocide, or holding up pictures of Bush at anti-war rallies with a Hitler-style moustache.

A democrat once told me, "Yeah, but that was okay, because it was true."

However, with Obama being President, if you dare to speak out against him, you are a racist, hater, or in the case of Williams, you're fired. The message is loud and clear - don't you dare say anything unbecoming of our precious ruler.

The interesting part about this is the country music star's comparison had nothing to do with Hitler's genocidal tendencies, and everything to do with the similarities between the politics of Hitler and Obama..

Taking Hitler's anti-semitism and war-like ways aside, Hitler's Nazi Party actually has a great amount in common with today's liberal Left, and Obama's agenda.

People will tell you that fascism like Nazism is a right wing political position because Hitler said that his politics were anti-communism. Since communism is to the left side of the political spectrum, then if fascism is the opposite as Mussolini and Hitler claimed, then fascism must be a rightwing thing.

The problem with that line of thinking is that fascism finds its roots in socialism, which is the same as communism and liberalism. So, therefore, fascist regimes like the Nazis are actually leftwing. The idea that Hitler was rightwingt is probably the most successful BIG LIE of the 20th Century. He was to the Right of the Communists but that is all. Nazism was nothing more nor less than a racist form of Leftism, and to label it as rightwing is to deny reality.

My conclusion comes partly from understanding the current political spectrum as understood by most minds. The far left is 100% government, and the far right is 0% government. Each political ideology then would fall somewhere in between. Without taking today's rhetoric into consideration, the Constitution is dead center. It created a central government limited in its authorities.

Hitler's political agenda is another peak into the reality that Nazism is leftwing. So, being leftwing like Obama, Hitler's policies should share a number of positions with the liberal positions of the Obama administration.

Hitlers policies were, for the most part, as follows:

- Hitler went to great lengths to stress the importance of labor unions.

- He considered the capitalist society as being brutal, greedy, and unjust.

- Hitler greatly admired the strong steps taken by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to take large-scale economic decision-making out of private hands and put it into those of government planning agencies.

- Hitler deplored the selfish individualism. "Public need before private greed."

- Required that all fire arms were registered, and then later confiscated all weapons.

- Government sponsored Health Insurance for all.

- Disliked Christianity, and respected the Muslims of his day.

- Hitler proposed that all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.

- Nationalization of all businesses.

- Eugenics through selective breeding (an idea he took from the American Progressives of the day).

- The Nazis were the first major political party in the Western world to have a thorough going "Green" agenda.

- Abortion up to just weeks before birth, especially in cases of dwarfism or disabilities.

- Leftist education of the children that taught that God is dead, the institutions corrupt, the German people racist, the land ruined, the past evil and the future doomed by global warming.

- Children were taught a culture which romanticises violence and worships sex -- telling them there is nothing more to life than the cravings of their bodies.

- Hitler also banned medical experiments on animals.

- Hitler created many national parks, particularly for Germany's "sacred" forests (increasing the amount of land owned by the government).

- The Nazis warned of the growing extinction of species, the destruction of forests, the genocide of aboriginal peoples, the disruption of the ecosystem and the killing of whales. People were losing their relationship with nature.

- In Mein Kampf Hitler warned of the population bomb (pages 121, 122).

- Chain stores were forbidden to expand or open new branches (Hitler would have hated Wal-Mart).

- In posters and speeches Hitler claimed to be a peace-nik, and that he was fighting for "equality for all." He campaigned on being anti-war to draw a separation between his agenda, and the policies of the communist party in the Soviet Union.

In short, like the Soviet Union, Nazi German was a leftist tyranny from a political standpoint. The policies are similar in communism, fascism, and liberalism.

Hence, Hank Williams Jr. was right.

Added note: Liberals have told me that Hitler's treatment of homosexuals was rightwing. However, Nazisms treatment of homosexuals was a ruse to make them look more pure as a party. In reality, many members of the Nazi Party, including possibly Hitler himself, were homosexuals and bi-sexuals. Conservatism's view today of homosexuality also differs with the actions of Hitler. Conservatives have never suggested that homosexuals should be killed or annihilated - only that the behavior should not be able to hijack the definition of marriage, or be taught as normal to our children or to society at large, when it is not a normal behavior.

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