References: Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back at Cruz After He Criticizes Biden’s Reference to Nazis (msn.com); Illinois GOP Rep. Mary Miller apologizes for her remark praising Hitler at pro-Trump rally – Chicago Sun-Times
Part I – The Republican Gets Lambasted And Her Resignation Is Demanded
“Illinois freshman Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller [made] recent comments, in which she referenced Hitler when speaking about propaganda being targeted towards children. ‘Hitler was right on one thing: He said, “Whoever has the youth, has the future.” ‘Our children are being propagandized,’ Miller said at a rally on Tuesday.”
She then got lambasted on social media by liberalsprogessives/Democrats for making any kind of Nazi or Hilter reference at all, much less one that has a good deal of truth in it and using it to make a valid point. Of course she was then forced to apologize: “She has since apologized for the comment, according to The New York Times.”
The Chicago Sun-Times described the inevitable backlash: “An online petition demanding Miller’s resignation posted by the Illinois Legislative Jewish Caucus, a group of 15 state lawmakers, had more than 11,500 signatures by Friday evening. Illinois Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky, Marie Newman, Sean Casten and Sen. Tammy Duckworth called on Miller to resign. Tim Schneider, the Illinois GOP chairman and Illinois GOP Reps. Rodney Davis and Adam Kinzinger condemned her remarks. ‘Hitler wasn’t right about anything,’ Kinzinger said. Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said her remarks were ‘unfathomable and disgusting’ and invited her to visit the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum said it ‘unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was “right.”‘”
So it appears to be virtually unlawful for anyone to suggest that Adolph Hitler or the Nazis were right about anything or to use one of their valid points to make a valid point about today’s environment. The fact is that Hitler was right about all kinds of things, which is why he got to power in Germany in the first place and enabled to commit the crimes he did. But goodness, you can’t say that, despite the obvious wisdom in learning about and taking instruction from what the Nazis were right about, as well as what they were wrong about. Actually, their morality was wrong – on many other things they were spot-on.
As George Santayana, Harvard Philosphy Professor, wrote, “[t]hose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (most often misquoted as something like “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”). These Demogratic progressive clowns should take a lesson from that.
OK, so if that is the rule, then what about this?
Part II – The Democrat Does Same Thing And Is A Hero
Yesterday Democratic President-Elect Biden tells an extended anedote about Joseph Goebbels and how the big lie can become reality, just keep repeating it and repeating it. “Biden said that the senators were ‘part of the big lie’ and shared an anecdote about Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, exaggerating the number of people killed in the firebombing of Dresden and the papers printed it. ‘They’re part of the big lie,’ he said at the press conference. ‘We’re told that Goebbels and the great lie: you keep repeating the lie, repeating the lie.'”
That is, Goebbels, Hitler’s henchman and propagandist, was right. The more you tell the big lie, the more people believe it. The difference between this example and the Miller example above is….what? Nothing, that’s what.
Guess what? Not a peep of any criticism from any Democrat. Not one. No one has suggested he resign (well, decline his election). No one has suggested he apologize for suggesting that something the Nazis advocated was actually correct. As noted above, Hitler and the Nazis were correct about all sorts of things, but deliberately ignoring that fact and trying to cancel anyone who says so, is intentional ignorance of historical events which should not be tolerated in people who are elected to establish public policy.
In fact, Democratic Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the well-known but unsophisticated and ignorant progressive loudmouth from New York, fully supported and defended Biden against criticism from Texas Republican Senator Cruz, and then raised Miller’s comment as evidence of Republican support for Nazis. C’mon, talk about a hypocrite. She sure needs a history lesson or two about how the Nazis came to power and what they did to maintain their power, but as we all know by now, history has no interest to this crowd unless it supports something they already think. If it contradicts something they think (or more accurately, think they think), then you just cross it out of the history textbooks and POOF! It’s gone. Just like in the 1619 Project, which is largely pure fantasy.
We suggest that all these Congressmen and Congresswomen, of all parties, go back to school and learn something. Or try reading a book rather than a .04 second Google search when looking for information that might be accurate. It is amazing to us that, for just one example, Representative Ocasio-Cortez actually received a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Boston University but continues to spout such anti-historical and hypocritical nonsense. This apparently is just one example of what the ultra-liberal safe-space trigger-warning colleges have been teaching (or more accurately, not teaching) for the last couple of decades. This does not bode well for this country.