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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 07:20 PM Jun 2014

Richard Mourdock: US Economic Woes Like Nazi Germany

Source: TPM

CATHERINE THOMPSON – JUNE 7, 2014, 5:59 PM EDT

Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R), who unsuccessfully campaigned for U.S. Senate in 2012, compared the economic situation in the U.S. to Nazi Germany on Saturday.

"The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi party because they made great promises that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute," Mourdock said during a speech at the Indiana Republican Convention in Fort Wayne, as quoted by the Indianapolis Star. "And why is that? Because Germany was bankrupt."

Mourdock called the comparison his "most important lesson" as he leaves public office at the end of the year, according to the Star. He also referenced the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, which took place the day before his speech.

"The truth is, 70 years later, we are drifting on the tides toward another beachhead and it is the bankruptcy of the United States of America," he said.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/richard-mourdock-us-economy-nazi-germany



Mourdock lost the 2012 Senate race to Democrat Joe Donnelly. In the final debate of that race, Mourdock explained that he was opposed to abortion even in cases of rape because those pregnancies are "something that God intended to happen."
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Richard Mourdock: US Economic Woes Like Nazi Germany (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
That's certainly an interesting way to Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #1
And more accurate. Adsos Letter Jun 2014 #9
Wishing for economic collapse like 1930's Germany is what these fascists are hoping for, it is the Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #2
Any time the Repukes don't like something... IkeRepublican Jun 2014 #3
Yes, yes, yes.... SoapBox Jun 2014 #4
Especially when it's patently false and ridiculous on its face. lastlib Jun 2014 #5
Mourdock compares US economic woes to Nazi Germany Judi Lynn Jun 2014 #6
What built those economic woes? obxhead Jun 2014 #7
A propaganda machine Bickle Jun 2014 #17
Morons are so tiring MFrohike Jun 2014 #8
This From A Man Fred Gilmore Jun 2014 #10
Good thing, or bad thing, RM??? blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #11
Let's look at the history a little more closely. Jim Lane Jun 2014 #12
Good points davidpdx Jun 2014 #13
On the bright side, Nazi Gemany was something God intended DefenseLawyer Jun 2014 #14
He got a standing ovation seabeckind Jun 2014 #15
Street violence... America is warming up. polynomial Jun 2014 #16
Is there nothing in the world that they don't describe as Nazi? marble falls Jun 2014 #18
The Rethug party of the 1930's was full of Nazi sympathizers... roamer65 Jun 2014 #19

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. That's certainly an interesting way to
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 07:36 PM
Jun 2014

try to turn himself into a 99%er populist politician. Personally, I wouldn't have bothered to go overseas with my comparison, the US gilded age is an easy comparison.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Wishing for economic collapse like 1930's Germany is what these fascists are hoping for, it is the
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 07:58 PM
Jun 2014

missing ingredient for the liberation of fascism fuelled by religious zealotry.

IkeRepublican

(406 posts)
3. Any time the Repukes don't like something...
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 07:58 PM
Jun 2014

...whether it's a type of ice cream or dictator in another country, it's always "like Nazi Germany" or "worse than Hitler".

lastlib

(23,208 posts)
5. Especially when it's patently false and ridiculous on its face.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 08:21 PM
Jun 2014

There is simply zero equivalence between our current economic status and the economic situation in Germany between those two wars. Any suggestion that there is, and some idjit needs a series of sharp blows to the cranial cavity.

Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
6. Mourdock compares US economic woes to Nazi Germany
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 09:02 PM
Jun 2014

Mourdock compares US economic woes to Nazi Germany

Posted: Jun 07, 2014 4:18 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 07, 2014 5:50 PM CDT
By TOM LoBIANCO
Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana politician who lost his Republican Senate campaign two years ago amid criticism for his comment about rape is now comparing the handling of the national economy to the events leading up to Germany's 1936 elections under the Nazi regime.

In a farewell speech to Indiana Republicans during the party convention Saturday, term-limited state Treasurer Richard Mourdock cautioned GOP members to be wary of politicians who promise entitlements and spending as debt grows. He said the Nazis made the same promises to Germans before that country's 1936 elections.

Mourdock began by praising World War II veterans - Friday was the 70th anniversary of D-Day - but then said the war started much earlier than that, during Germany's 1936 elections.

"And this is where I put on my state treasurer's hat again for just a moment to give the most important lesson: The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi Party because they made great promises, that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute," Mourdock said.

More:
http://www.nbc4i.com/story/25720068/mourdock-compares-us-economic-woes-to-nazi-germany

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obxhead

(8,434 posts)
7. What built those economic woes?
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 09:16 PM
Jun 2014

A runaway military industrial complex given a truckload of blank checks and endless opportunities to create war and military actions.

A runaway banking system with zero checks and balances that shifts ALL of the DEBT onto the people and the PROFIT onto the 1%.

A runaway stock market that is now fueled with trillions in taxpayer dollars and is a completely rigged game for the 1%.

Bickle

(109 posts)
17. A propaganda machine
Sun Jun 8, 2014, 02:14 PM
Jun 2014

Designed to stoke hate

It's completely like Nazi Germany. Of course, as usual, the conservatives are the Pot and the kettle

MFrohike

(1,980 posts)
8. Morons are so tiring
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:05 PM
Jun 2014

Trot out Hitler at every opportunity and make the widely-believed, but completely fucking stupid on its face, claim that the country that issues dollars can somehow run out of them.

 

Fred Gilmore

(80 posts)
10. This From A Man
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 11:38 PM
Jun 2014

Representing a political party that has a national platform so closely aligned with that of the 1930s German Nazi Party. I say hypocrisy. Today's puke and bagger politicians are screaming for Fascist policies every single day. Bigger and bigger military budgets, government partnership with big business, a separationist agenda, targeting entire races for humiliation and shame, anti abortion, and wars of aggression to steal vital minerals and oil. The entire right wing agenda is eerily comparable to that of Adolf Hitler.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
12. Let's look at the history a little more closely.
Sun Jun 8, 2014, 02:57 AM
Jun 2014

Before Hitler himself became Chancellor, he was a harsh critic of the policies of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. According to Wikipedia:

Brüning's austerity measures brought little economic improvement and were extremely unpopular.[132] Hitler exploited this by targeting his political messages specifically at people who had been affected by the inflation of the 1920s and the Depression, such as farmers, war veterans, and the middle class.[133]


So, the lessons here are that (1) austerity policies don't work, and (2) they can even facilitate an extremist takeover.

Do I have that right, Mr. Mourdock?

polynomial

(750 posts)
16. Street violence... America is warming up.
Sun Jun 8, 2014, 02:14 PM
Jun 2014

The strangest thing; what if he is right, perhaps the economy is riding on that “too big to fail” derivative market America has no idea when it will fail, or there is one those flash crash points in the stock market that will be unexplainable with the rush to bailout.


However, most of financial mathematics is built around secret stock market trading, secret metadata transactions, secret money in politics, secret Federal Reserve loans to big corporate people, and of course laundered money through tax havens in war profiteering, and the worst of all a mainstream media loaded with Journalist that make up stories rather than tell news. Then the best part the ultimate tax bill sent to the public.

Woes like Nazi Germany, but now without a war just where more than half the impoverished society in America, families will watch their pensions vanish. Then America is loaded with weapons and an angered population.

Now ripe infuriatingly citizens take action and America starts to witness waves of moving massacres across the country simple teen age murders are transformed into unstoppable locus swarms of mix of indignant adults, indigenous and imported.

Sorry about being prescient to show events before they happen, but it has been the Arab Bin Laden Plan for decades, and the Republicans love to marshal society; from my view they are pushing for the street “Assault on Reason.” What is horrible too many believe in them, creeps like Hannity, and Limbaugh.

It’s the only way today’s Republicans know how to keep money and power, sad but true, tyranny , torture, murder, war profiteering, public media liars, and money scamming appear to be that basic method they operate from.

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