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'We Are Socialists'

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“We are socialists.” So said Adolf Hitler.

The Left desperately tries to portray Hitler as some sort of “rightist,” mainly because he was so opposed to Soviet Bolshevism. But just as there are different manifestations of “right-wing” philosophies, there are different “left-wing” ideologies as well. And socialism is a leftist philosophy, not a “rightist” one. “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” was the official name of Hitler’s political party (“Nazi” comes from the German word “Nationalsozialistische,” national socialist). Hitler was a totalitarian leftist, not a Christian, right-wing, pro-American, freedom-loving conservative.

Here is Hitler’s full quote:

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

Find me one word in that statement that a member of the modern American Democratic Party would disagree with, except they wouldn’t like the words “responsibility” and “performance.” Those aren’t in any leftist dictionary.

The Left, the Democrats, are socialists. Not Donald Trump, who is probably as much of a capitalist as anyone in the country. But…the Left lies.

And, indeed, I recently published an article in which I demonstrated that lying was a major component of leftist ideology. Yes, they lie, obviously, all the time, but “propaganda” might be an even better word for what they try to spread. And that brings me to Adolf Hitler’s number one propagandist/liar, Joseph Goebbels.

Goebbels pushed Nazism as hard as anyone could, and he wrote about how he did it. Here are a few choice Goebbels quotes.

1. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

How many Americans actually believe the Left’s lie that Donald Trump is a Nazi, when, in reality, it is the Democrats who are the true socialist totalitarian party? In the same vein, Goebbels wrote, “If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.” Of course, it doesn’t really become the truth, but people believe it is. Or those who are naïve and inclined to believe what they want to.

Goebbels also said, “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.” Almost comical. “Surely that has to be true. Nobody would tell, or believe that big a lie.” Well, yes, Democrats tell lies like that all the time, and, yes, their sheep believe them. The bigger the lie, the more people who will believe it, said one of the master propagandists of human history.

2. “The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.”

The “rank and file” are the stupid masses, the naïve, the “primitives,” the “useful idiots,” the sheep who will believe anything their masters say. Goebbels said propaganda must be kept simple so those brainwashed masses can understand it, and repeated often enough so that the “big lie” will sink into unthinking brains. Goebbels’ words are a masterful description of what the Democratic Party is doing in America today.

3.  “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”

Make sure these sheep think they are “acting on their own free will.” How many Democratic Party faithful would admit they are really being programmed by master propagandists, being led by the nose to their own slaughter?

And this sublime thought:

4. “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

The Deep State brilliantly employs the corporate media, the “great keyboard on which government can play,” to get its message out to the “primitives” of America. Democrats want to control the government, so they must control the media. And, largely, they do. But, fortunately, not all of it. If the Democrats ever gain the totalitarian control of the government they crave, they’ll do what leftists Hitler, Stalin, and the CCP did (and do) and shut down any opposition. They tried that under Biden and had some success, but they won’t dominate everything until they obtain totalitarian power. The corporate media—and braindead RINOs—are trying their hardest to help them.

Because they believe their own lies, their own propaganda, the Left has become completely divorced from reality. They no longer think, speak, or behave rationally. Truth becomes fiction to them, and lies become the truth. Men can become women just by saying so, men can “marry” men and women can “marry” women, children can decide their own gender and be mutilated for life to achieve it, unborn babies aren’t human and can be killed at a mother’s whim, illegal aliens have the same rights as citizens—these chimerical fantasies are what happen when you lie long and hard enough, and begin to believe your own rhetoric. A person like that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction, normality and abnormality. Not surprisingly, it happened to Joseph Goebbels:

5. “The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.”

His last two sentences are certainly true: Christ is the embodiment of love, and Marx of hate. But his first statement shows how completely removed from reality he, and the Nazis (and the Democrats) were (are). He actually believed the Nazis were fighting on the side of Jesus. Hitler hated Christianity, or perhaps, thought he could determine what true Christianity is. Just like modern Democrats in America do. They can find all sorts of ingenious concoctions to defend their godless ideals as something Jesus would approve of. It’s sickening, and it’s sad. It is, perhaps, their biggest lie of all.

Who are the real Nazis in America? Whose propaganda proves it?

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