These fuckwads love to talk about how the Nazis would confiscate personal firearms, and that's true! But first, they armed their co-ideologists out the wazoo AND THEN disarmed them WITH popular support
These fuckwads love to talk about how the Nazis would confiscate personal firearms, and that's true! But first, they armed their co-ideologists out the wazoo AND THEN disarmed them WITH popular support
So, there's another one of the great myths of history: The Nazis never gained actual majorities in the Reichstag until after Hitler was already Chancellor. They gained their power there to begin with because the German conservative forces (predominantly their big business and Prussian Junker class, like Hindenburg) wanted to co-opt the Nazis against the left-wing, but especially the Communists. Hindenburg even thought he could control Hitler!
Revolutions ALWAYS eat their own. It is a lesson that few revolutionaries seem to learn... and it is usually the true believers that get eaten.
Just ask the SA... or Robespierre.. or Trotsky.. or any of a LONG list.
Mostly they get eaten because they are too radical--and they get in the way of the power hungry.
Most of the people at CPAC, they are going to be the ones who go to the wall if/when the Rightist revolution comes. Granted they will kill a lot of lefties and trans and gays and blacks first... but they will get the chop, too.
I have long said Mitch and his ilk will be the first to be executed when Putin or Xi or whoever it is walks into the Capitol with the help of the GOP -- because the Putins of the world know better than anyone that the Mitches of the world cannot be trusted -- because anyone who betrays his own country and people will betray you too.
These fuckwads love to talk about how the Nazis would confiscate personal firearms, and that's true! But first, they armed their co-ideologists out the wazoo AND THEN disarmed them WITH popular support
So, there's another one of the great myths of history: The Nazis never gained actual majorities in the Reichstag until after Hitler was already Chancellor. They gained their power there to begin with because the German conservative forces (predominantly their big business and Prussian Junker class, like Hindenburg) wanted to co-opt the Nazis against the left-wing, but especially the Communists. Hindenburg even thought he could control Hitler!
Oh, I was thinking of what they did to the Brownshirts. Kept them armed, let them loose....and then turned on them
Revolutions ALWAYS eat their own. It is a lesson that few revolutionaries seem to learn... and it is usually the true believers that get eaten.
Just ask the SA... or Robespierre.. or Trotsky.. or any of a LONG list.
Mostly they get eaten because they are too radical--and they get in the way of the power hungry.
Most of the people at CPAC, they are going to be the ones who go to the wall if/when the Rightist revolution comes. Granted they will kill a lot of lefties and trans and gays and blacks first... but they will get the chop, too.
Leaving the actual grifters in charge.
I have long said Mitch and his ilk will be the first to be executed when Putin or Xi or whoever it is walks into the Capitol with the help of the GOP -- because the Putins of the world know better than anyone that the Mitches of the world cannot be trusted -- because anyone who betrays his own country and people will betray you too.