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Senator Sherrod Brown
(D-OH) Meets Hitler
by Erick Erickson
Thursday, March 3rd
Editor’s Note: Sen. Brown is quoted in a number of newspapers as saying
that tyrants such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin "went after unions."
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is not a Nazi. But he has a history of
voting for policies the Nazis championed. But he is not a Nazi. Nor is
he Nazi like.
He just likes a lot of policies the Nazis championed.
That’s not hyperbole. That is actual fact. I wouldn’t bring this up
except Sherrod Brown is calling Jim DeMint and Scott Walker “nazis”
except they, just like Sherrod Brown, are not Nazis. Or something like
that. Senator Brown seems confused. He’s comparing them to Hitler and
Stalin, but denying he is comparing them to Hitler and Stalin.
“As a nation, I look back in history and some of the worst governments
we’ve ever had, you know one of the the first thing they did? They went
after the trade unions,” he said. “Hitler didn’t want unions, Stalin
didn’t want unions. [Former Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak didn’t
want independent unions.”
This is, of course, cow patties. Lefties like to say things like this
all the time, but it is complete and utter nonsense. In fact, in Mien
Kampf, Hitler himself wrote:
“As things stand today, the trade unions in my opinion cannot be
dispensed with. On the contrary, they are among the most important
institutions of the nation’s economic life. Their significance lies not
only in the social and political field, but even more in the general
field of national politics. A people whose broad masses, through a
sound trade-union movement, obtain the satisfaction of their living
requirements and at the same time an education, will be tremendously
strengthened in its power of resistance in the struggle for existence.
“Above all, the trade unions are necessary as foundation stones of the
future economic parliament or chambers of estates.”
The lefties say this because Hitler dissolved the Weimar Republic’s
unions and consolidated them into the German equivalent of the AFL-CIO,
basing the unions on socialist equality principles. Yes, he dissolved
the unions. But he only did so because they weren’t “union” enough.
The lefties claiming otherwise are ignorant of history.
It might shock Sherrod Brown, who shows no signs of being familiar at
all with history, that the Nazis also supported universal healthcare,
expanded animal welfare laws, support of healthy, organic foods and
vegetarianism, a minimum wage, progressive taxation, and tight gun
control — policies Sherrod Brown supports too.
In fact, former Senator Chris Dodd’s father Thomas, is frequently
accused by Jewish groups of drafting the Gun Control Act of 1968 from
reading the Nazis’ German Weapons Law. A signification portion of
Dodd’s law mirrors Hitler’s law, including the “sporting purpose test”
first introduced by the Nazis.
Likewise, Stalin did not shutdown unions, but made them agents of the
state.
Just to re-emphasize, the Nazis and Soviets loved labor unions. They
loved them so much they made them part of the state apparatus.
Sherrod Brown is no more a Nazi than Jim DeMint or Scott Walker. But he
is pretty ignorant of history.
Read it at Redstate
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