On 08/09/2014 05:56 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 8/8/2014 9:57 AM, nestork wrote:

I think the most important point that's not been mentioned so far in
this thread is how both the Nazi and Allied governments used propoganda
to motivate their populations.



The only thing that bothers me is that I still see examples of
governments lying to their people in order to get the populations
support to do what that government wants.

1. In the USA, the most obvious example was when the US government said
that prescription drugs imported from Canada weren't as safe as US
drugs.

I'd have said that the class envy rhetoric in the USA
was the most obvious example.

* The rich didn't pay their fair share
* The Republican war on women
* The Republicans won't let me pass my bills
* A vast right wing conspiracy


Does this sound familiar?

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic
economic system for the exploitation of the economically
weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation
of a human being according to wealth and property instead
of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined
to destroy this system under all conditions."

Sounds familiar to me.

-T



Oh, almost forgot, that was Adolf Hitler (Speech of May 1, 1927.
Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)