What does Hitler have in common with this union busting in Wisconsin and the spread across our great nation?

 As you can easily see by my postings lately, I am totally obsessed by this union busting story coming out of Wisconsin.... so today I found on FB a new one for ya. I saw Leslie had joined into the conversation on this article from the awesome informative site   News Junkie Post.  Tons of great info on the protests. And the truth, so go read!


On May 2nd, 1933, the day after Labor day, Nazi groups occupied union halls and labor leaders were arrested.  Trade Unions were outlawed by Adolf Hitler, while collective bargaining and the right to strike was abolished.  This was the beginning of a consolidation of power by the fascist regime which systematically wiped out all opposition groups, starting with unions, liberals, socialists, and communists using Himmler’s state police.
Fast forward to America today, particularly Wisconsin.  Governor Walker and the Republican/Tea Party members of the state legislature are attempting to pass a bill that would not only severely punish public unions (with exception for the police, fire, and state trooper unions that supported his campaign), but it would effectively end 50 years to the right of these workers to collectively bargain.

Collective bargaining is a process of voluntary negotiations between employers and trade unions aimed at reaching agreements which regulate working conditions. Collective agreements usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs. -wiki

First of all, assaulting the rights of workers to collectively bargain has absolutely nothing to do with any immediate budgetary issues.  It does however have everything to do with ending one of the basic rights of labor to organize. Please read the rest....

Now tell me folks, what has President Obama done in the past 2 years that looks anything like a dictatorship? Those who have turned their backs on Obama and criticize his every move better wake up to what the Rightwing wants to do to America. If you think I'm off base talking about Hitler and the Republicans in the same sentence then you better get yourselves educated on unions and Wisconsin.


I GOOGLED fascist republicans and found this...Hub pages

Are Republicans Fascist?

Roger Griffin, arguably the most prominent fascist historian, has a solution which succeeds where everyone else has failed, defining the concept of a fascist minimum of "paligenetic ultra-nationalist populism". Paligenetic means rebirth: Griffin is talking about a far-right party which exudes iconography suggesting the nation arise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Although the definition is not widely known outside of the historical community, it is the only definition which can sum up fascism in less than a couple of paragraphs, much less three words, and has gained widespread acceptance amongst scholars.
I thought for some time that this would eliminate the possibility of the Republican party being fascist. Its visual iconography is not remotely paligenetic. Mostly, you think of Republicans, and you think of old rich guys in suits. Throughout its history it has been a party of the centre right, not remotely fascist in nature.
But, this ignores the significant and growing influence on the party of influential groups such as evangelical churches, the Tea Party. The individual, like George Bush, who describes himself as born-again, is literally expressing his belief in paligenesis. Not of nationhood, though the nationalism of the Republican party is not in doubt, but of his soul. This suggests the possibility of a peculiarly American form of fascism, and one potentially more virulent than the ones we know of from the thirties and forties, as it has a spiritual, cult-like component. Only the followers of Codreanu in Romania, whose beliefs made Hitler seem mild-mannered, developed a form of fascism that perverse.
Additionally, the neo-con influence on the party provides additional defining characteristics of fascism. It has turned a moderate, isolationist patriotic party into an aggressive interventionist ultra-nationalist one, ready to invade other nations on purely territorial grounds.
When assessing the influence of these outside groupings, you have to consider how fascism would most likely emerge in America, if in fact, emerge it did. It wouldn't be possible for a radical third party to emerge and win office, the constitution has many specific provisions which make that almost impossible. In the most probable scenario, radical groupings would infect the body of a major political party, probably (though not necessarily) the Republicans, establish an elite with major influence over the president out of all proportion with their popularity. This is what has happened.
When it comes to historical parallels,it becomes much simpler to make comparisons. It is not difficult to see the similarities between the Reichstag fire that brought Hitler to power in Germany, through the subsequent Enabling Act, and 9/11 and the Patriot Act. Both were convenient if probably genuine acts of terrorism by menacing powers which led to authoritarian pieces of legislation superficially designed to eliminate an external threat which reduced civil freedoms at home. In fact, the Nazi's had much more justification-revolution had already occurred in Russia, and the Red Army stood ready to attack at any moment. The threat posed by Bin Laden is inconsequential by comparison.
It is not difficult to see comparisons between the rise to power of the modern Republican party and the Nazis, both in quasi-legal coup d'etats where a minority of the electorate returned each respective organization.
It is not difficult to see how the skillful use of propaganda has been used to pacify each people with selective truth-telling, paranoid nightmare, and appeals to shallow jingoism.
It is not difficult to see the comparisons between the Keynesian militarism of German Nazism and the big state spending of the Republicans on the US military machine.
Nor is it difficult to see how a succession of atrocities were hidden, uncovered and then papered over with a shallow veneer of justification, then subsequently ignored by an indifferent people. Fortunately, the scale of atrocities committed by the US and the Nazi's are not of the same order. But it was not till long after WWII that the horrors of the gas chambers were widely known. It is a good idea to be vigilant against the possibility.
On the most simple level, the Republicans are now seen by almost everyone outside the organization as the party of torture, the party of offensive military action, the party that opposes civil rights, even the party of concentration camps. These are not American values. These are not the practices of civilized, democratic peoples anywhere in the world. They are things we associate with authoritarianism, and, by implication, fascism.