Earlier this week, Glenn Beck outlined on his show, his belief that America is slowly turning into Nazi Germany. To help illustrate his point, Beck shows Nazi propaganda that was once used to create an feeling of apathy towards the disabled. Now, maybe I am confused as to the definition of propaganda, but isn’t Beck using Nazi propaganda to push forward his agenda, to scare his audience into believing that if you are not a member of the dissenting party then you are no better than a German living during the days of the Third Reich?

As support for his outrageous claims, Beck cites that the weakness of the Dollar is reminiscent of the collapse of the Mark, which ultimately ushered Germany into the Great Depression. While it is true that the Dollar is at its weakest in generations, I ask you who was the party of power during its collapse? And does Beck not comprehend the perfect storm of circumstance that allowed the Nazi party to assume power? The hyperinflation of the Mark ceased in 1923, yet the Nazi party did not assume power over the country for another ten years. The collapse of the Mark was not the sole reason behind the Nazi’s rise to power.

Once under Nazi control, personal freedoms were restricted as an effort to consolidate power. This power eventually lead to the re-militarization of Germany and increased aggression towards its enemies. If anything, Beck’s political affiliation reminds me more of the Nazi party. This country survived eight years with an administration that restricted personal freedoms via the Patriot Act, spied on its own citizens via wiretapping, fabricated a fictitious war while labeling any dissenters as unpatriotic, engaged in the illegal torturing of its prisoners, and outed its own intelligence personnel for political gain. If anything, I feel safer as an American under this current administration. Glenn Beck needs to look in the mirror and at the political party he shills for on Fox News before accusing Barrack Obama of being the next Adolf Hitler. However, if this country does follow the path to Nazism, I sure hope that Glenn Beck happens to be the first one in that chamber, so when the Zyklon B gas comes through the shower heads, he will know that he was finally right about something.

And to think… he has the right to claim that we are becoming another Nazi Germany, all in the effort of preventing the forty nine million people without health insurance from being covered… ain’t this country great…

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