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They would call a match lit by a democrat a conflagration.

Next they'll start sewing elephant symbols on their coats.

His "point" is too outrageous and over-the-top to take seriously.

All that's happened is that the Reps have lost elections and some of them are acting like there's been an armed insurrection.

Now? Just now it's failing? The government just now started growing at an alarming rate?

resedit wrote:

Government is growing at an alarming rate, and people want the government to grow and take care of them.

They do?  What "people" want this country to be like Iran, or Germany prior to WWII?

bratboy wrote:

resedit wrote:

Government is growing at an alarming rate, and people want the government to grow and take care of them.

They do?  What "people" want this country to be like Iran, or Germany prior to WWII?

Well, let's see. Iran is a theocracy. Which party would most like for the US to become a theocracy?

The Enabling Act was passed in March 1933, with 444 votes, to the 94 of the remaining Social Democrats. The act gave the government (and thus effectively the Nazi Party) legislative powers and also authorized it to deviate from the provisions of the constitution for four years. In effect, Hitler had seized dictatorial powers.

Over the next year, the National Socialist Party ruthlessly eliminated all opposition. The Communists had already been banned before the passage of the Enabling Act. The Social Democrats (SPD), despite efforts to appease Hitler, were banned in June. In June and July, the Nationalists (DNVP), People's Party (DVP) and State Party (DStP) were forced to disband. The remaining Catholic Centre Party, at Papen's urging, disbanded itself on 5 July 1933 after guarantees over Catholic education and youth groups. On 14 July 1933 Germany was officially declared a one-party state.

Further consolidation of power was achieved on 30 January 1934 with the Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reichs (Act to rebuild the Reich). The act changed the highly decentralized federal Germany of the Weimar era into a centralized state. It disbanded state parliaments, transferring sovereign rights of the states to the Reich central government and put the state administrations under the control of the Reich administration. This process had actually begun soon after the passage of the Enabling Act, when all state governments were thrown out of office and replaced by Reich governors (German: Reichsstatthalter). Further laws ended any autonomy in local government. Mayors of cities and towns with less than 100,000 people were appointed by the governors, while the Interior Minister appointed the mayors of all cities with more than 100,000 people. In the case of Berlin and Hamburg (and after 1938, Vienna), Hitler reserved the right to personally appoint the mayors.

At Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934 the Nazi-controlled Reichstag merged the offices of Reichspräsident and Reichskanzler and reinstalled Hitler with the new title Führer und Reichskanzler. Until the death of Hindenburg, the army did not follow Hitler, partly because the paramilitary SA was much larger than the German Army (limited to 100,000 by the Treaty of Versailles) and because the leaders of the SA sought to merge the army into itself and to launch the socialist "second revolution." The murder of Ernst Röhm and the leadership of the SA, assured the army of its position. Hitler further promised expansions of the German military which brought friendlier relations between him and the Reichswehr. The death of Hindenburg brought the requirement of all soldiers' to take an oath of allegiance to obey Hitler alone and not the Reich or constitution of Germany.[16]

The Nazis thereafter proceeded to scrap their official alliance with the conservative nationalists and began to introduce Nazi ideology and Nazi symbolism into all major aspects of life in Germany. Schoolbooks were either rewritten or replaced and schoolteachers who did not support Nazification of the curriculum were fired.

It's like looking into a mirror!

Link.

resedit wrote:

bratboy wrote:

resedit wrote:

Government is growing at an alarming rate, and people want the government to grow and take care of them.

They do?  What "people" want this country to be like Iran, or Germany prior to WWII?

I never said we wanted it to be like those countries.

Do you endorse his comments, or not?

Just remember, nixen mixen der Panzertruppen mit der poopentruppen.

bratboy wrote:

resedit wrote:

bratboy wrote:

They do?  What "people" want this country to be like Iran, or Germany prior to WWII?

I never said we wanted it to be like those countries.

Do you endorse his comments, or not?

Yes - I agree with what he said.
It's called consequences of the path we are taking.

Coddle and over shelter your child growing up and what happens?
Is that the intent of the parents who do it?
No. But it is a consequence.

resedit wrote:

Yes - I agree with what he said.
It's called consequences of the path we are taking.

What path are we taking?  That of Nazi Germany?  Explain, demonstrating your surely vast knowledge of history.

Coddle and over shelter your child growing up and what happens?
Is that the intent of the parents who do it?
No. But it is a consequence.

Who is being "coddled" and "over sheltered?"  Be specific.

And I thought Germany's problem was not the political system of election, but the inefficiency of their executive branch and the terrible economy. But power-wise, the people had tons of opportunity for representation- just form a new party and get a ticket to the big table. There were lots of political parties in Germany in their legislative branch. It was not that hard to organize and get representation in government- as if that is a bad thing. The bad economy made Hitler's speeches about abandoning the political smorgasbord in favor of a more centralized government gain popularity. Then the Nazi's took advantage of crises in order to continually gain more and more power.