Very very well said. With respect to liberlasim and the right's charge to "big government"; to use the term with that reference
assumes that it is true. The Democratic domestic policy has, since 1929, provided fail-safes and safety nets for people in need: the military is such a safety net and was used to help young men in trouble with law. The idea of these protections being "big government", in my view, is just silly right-wing propoganda.
The third Reich (empire) was the very definition of big government. It also, as you stated carrried all the elements of todays US right-wing. What we're dealing with here in the case of
vendur et al is simply attempts at revisionist history to draw attention away from today's right-wing tactics and ideology. Both the Third Reich and today's right-wing have far more in common with feudalism and fascism than anything the right may pretend to be. One of the first things Nazism embarked on was finding fault with and being the "victims" of some ubiquitous force outside of their patriotic vision for the country.
Anderson Cooper Debunks Michele Bachmann Claims Of 'Muslim Extremist' Infiltration Of US Government (VIDEO) Of course, like Himmler's SS, today's right-wing measures true patriotism through the criteria of blind obedience, patriotic "purity", and recognition with a fervent desire to
take care of the problems, be active in flushing out problems of course as defined by the right-wing leadership, to be active in supplanting the government with their own people, and keeping up a military front of which the juggernaught will be a proud part as a measure of his or her patriotism.
Today's corporate feudalism is only stimulated by this distemper with our military playing the part of that bastion of free enterprise in US foreign policy: there being no difference than the Great Plantation of Ulster, or journalist John L O'Sullivan's
Manifest Destiny: very much a part of Hitler's design as well.
The right-wing is of course attempting to redesign FDR as well with teh same ridiclous tactics as outlined above by Anderson Cooper.