It's awful how uneducated Canadians are. We have to admit that our media and work culture have kept Canadians in the dark about basic political concepts. Having to ramp up from a 35-hour to a 60-hour workweek in order to care for kids leaves Canadian minds too tired to consume media that makes them wiser. Furthermore, many Canadian news publishers are operating at a level that doesn't provide context for anything they report on. Some even commit false neutrality.
There is mistaken logic behind the confusion that Poilievre is taking advantage of in people. Even as you explain the differences between Stalinism and Nazism, you show how they end in similar anarchy for everyday people. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact sought to bring supposedly opposite regimes in concert with one another as essentially the same arrangement. In the 1930s and 40s, supposed Leftists supported Fascism in an accelerationist strategy in favour of Russia, so it was all the same to them. Now, when normal people experience white and whitewashed "leftists" practicing authoritarianism and rendering advocacy groups useless, they learn Horseshoe Theory.
It's helpful that you make the distinction between how the end-result of both extremisms looks, and how their sources bring it about. People think they're opposing the bad thing when really they're just participating in the horseshoe. It's absolutely vital that you lay out what the hell we are trying to protect, because people actually have no idea. You're ungaslighting to those of us with the time and energy to read essays. And we need to see the language all the more because we have to repair the undereducations we received in the educational systems around Canada.
I decided to comment because a friend said that Poilievre should be embarrassed to have been caught claiming National Socialism is Socialism. My friend has no idea what people are like. Poilievre is not going to be embarrassed, because this is not a mistake. And there are perfectly unsurprising reasons why Canadians are susceptible to this strategy.
The funny part is lost to living memory. The party was founded in 1919 as the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (DAP) or German Workers’ Party. On February 24, 1920, the party changed its name to Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party). It was a pure marketing gimmick to broaden popular appeal, bringing in the right wing blood and soil types with "National" and the state ownership of the means of production fans from the left. The means of production ended up staying in private hands but under effective state control, so the left wing recruits were snookered. The right wingers got what they asked for but too much so.
It is a fascinating thing that PP and many right-wing fools believe that just because a particular word is used, it means that it is an indicator of a particular viewpoint.
While the USSR still existed, the DDR ( Deutsche Demokratische Republik.) AKA German Democratic Republic was Communist East Germany.
And the BRD Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Deutschland) was Democratic West Germany.
Notice that weird use of “Democratic” in the Communist controlled half otf the country. Yah. Taking a political party name or even a national name at face value is a fools errand.
As someone who is first generation AFTER the second world war allow me to tell you that YOU ARE ALL WRONG!! Do you truly think Communist leadership is not autocracy? Not, in reality, a dictatorship? One person controlling everything? The Germans had a government that controlled nearly every aspect of the citizens life, much like Canada is going to. Citizens , like the majority of the left, are allowing it to happen. Libertarians are on the right, limited government, high personal freedoms, the left limited freedoms, high government controlled state.
You people are delusional and ignorant, being taught by professors and teacher who have a socialist agenda. The professor who stated because he teaches Holocaust history that makes him an expert. Far from it. The Nazi executed everyone who disagreed with their agenda, it did not matter their political agenda, Communist do the same.
Polievre is correct, you and yours are willfully ignorant. You are letting a government take away your freedoms and it is being done through a state controlled propaganda machine.
I wonder if any of you remember when the "news" was a person sitting at a desk, reading out what had happened during the day, no opinion, no lecturing, simply this happened, now go make of it what you will. The onus being on the citizen to educate themselves, not by the state or an opinion group trying to convince you one way or the other.
You are sadly mislead and it is truly disappointing.
I just wanted to let you that the video of the Nazi documentary is no longer available at the link provided, but I did find parts of the documentary on YouTube at the following link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF706152EF0DAEC6E
The worst thing we ever did in teaching history in the West was the unrelenting focus on Hitler as the apex of genocide. Bad ideology festers at the extreme ends of the political spectrum on both sides.
It's awful how uneducated Canadians are. We have to admit that our media and work culture have kept Canadians in the dark about basic political concepts. Having to ramp up from a 35-hour to a 60-hour workweek in order to care for kids leaves Canadian minds too tired to consume media that makes them wiser. Furthermore, many Canadian news publishers are operating at a level that doesn't provide context for anything they report on. Some even commit false neutrality.
There is mistaken logic behind the confusion that Poilievre is taking advantage of in people. Even as you explain the differences between Stalinism and Nazism, you show how they end in similar anarchy for everyday people. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact sought to bring supposedly opposite regimes in concert with one another as essentially the same arrangement. In the 1930s and 40s, supposed Leftists supported Fascism in an accelerationist strategy in favour of Russia, so it was all the same to them. Now, when normal people experience white and whitewashed "leftists" practicing authoritarianism and rendering advocacy groups useless, they learn Horseshoe Theory.
It's helpful that you make the distinction between how the end-result of both extremisms looks, and how their sources bring it about. People think they're opposing the bad thing when really they're just participating in the horseshoe. It's absolutely vital that you lay out what the hell we are trying to protect, because people actually have no idea. You're ungaslighting to those of us with the time and energy to read essays. And we need to see the language all the more because we have to repair the undereducations we received in the educational systems around Canada.
I decided to comment because a friend said that Poilievre should be embarrassed to have been caught claiming National Socialism is Socialism. My friend has no idea what people are like. Poilievre is not going to be embarrassed, because this is not a mistake. And there are perfectly unsurprising reasons why Canadians are susceptible to this strategy.
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The funny part is lost to living memory. The party was founded in 1919 as the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (DAP) or German Workers’ Party. On February 24, 1920, the party changed its name to Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party). It was a pure marketing gimmick to broaden popular appeal, bringing in the right wing blood and soil types with "National" and the state ownership of the means of production fans from the left. The means of production ended up staying in private hands but under effective state control, so the left wing recruits were snookered. The right wingers got what they asked for but too much so.
It is a fascinating thing that PP and many right-wing fools believe that just because a particular word is used, it means that it is an indicator of a particular viewpoint.
While the USSR still existed, the DDR ( Deutsche Demokratische Republik.) AKA German Democratic Republic was Communist East Germany.
And the BRD Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Deutschland) was Democratic West Germany.
Notice that weird use of “Democratic” in the Communist controlled half otf the country. Yah. Taking a political party name or even a national name at face value is a fools errand.
As someone who is first generation AFTER the second world war allow me to tell you that YOU ARE ALL WRONG!! Do you truly think Communist leadership is not autocracy? Not, in reality, a dictatorship? One person controlling everything? The Germans had a government that controlled nearly every aspect of the citizens life, much like Canada is going to. Citizens , like the majority of the left, are allowing it to happen. Libertarians are on the right, limited government, high personal freedoms, the left limited freedoms, high government controlled state.
You people are delusional and ignorant, being taught by professors and teacher who have a socialist agenda. The professor who stated because he teaches Holocaust history that makes him an expert. Far from it. The Nazi executed everyone who disagreed with their agenda, it did not matter their political agenda, Communist do the same.
Polievre is correct, you and yours are willfully ignorant. You are letting a government take away your freedoms and it is being done through a state controlled propaganda machine.
I wonder if any of you remember when the "news" was a person sitting at a desk, reading out what had happened during the day, no opinion, no lecturing, simply this happened, now go make of it what you will. The onus being on the citizen to educate themselves, not by the state or an opinion group trying to convince you one way or the other.
You are sadly mislead and it is truly disappointing.
I just wanted to let you that the video of the Nazi documentary is no longer available at the link provided, but I did find parts of the documentary on YouTube at the following link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF706152EF0DAEC6E
Hopefully it will remain available.
The worst thing we ever did in teaching history in the West was the unrelenting focus on Hitler as the apex of genocide. Bad ideology festers at the extreme ends of the political spectrum on both sides.