Don't Be a Sucker - 1947

In this anti-fascist film produced by US Military in the wake of WWII, the producers deconstructs the politically motivated social engineering of Germany by the Nazi regime.

Its argument is just as timely and relevant today.

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• Don't
• Be
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• Sucker
• 1947
• WWII
• anti-fascist

[BarKafka]

First they came for ACORN,

But I was not an oak tree so I said nothing;

Then they came for Planned Parenthood,

But was not a parent so I did nothing;

Then they came for the Unions,

But I was not a card carrying member so I said nothing.

Then they came for me, but there was no one left to speak.

(Apologies to Martin Niemoller)

[MsZippity]

This is where we are today...all I could think of was Peter King R., NY and his Muslim-bashing this week...and the rhetoric from the Tea Party about Hispanics in Arizona....and Walker in Michigan running over collective bargaining rights in the name of a fiscal emergency that doesn't exist. Sad, sad reminder of what is going on right now. Recognize their tactics and their language, America.

[TheCaroleAJones]

Its all gone down the shitter now though. Freedom is a memory.

[elbruces]

In general, I love this video. I have the URL saved for various argumentative reasons. But I must say that they give Catholicism too much of a pass here. Acting like Catholics were enemies of Nazism amounts to massive historical revisionism.

[bstuts7914]

Aw, c'mon. You can make the same case about the liberal intrusion of the welfare state. You offer a few seemingly good-intentioned services and the next thing you have is Greece. Greece, where few people are gainfully employed and everybody gets money from the government.

[DJSpinoza]

Just to counter some of the pro fascist propaganda here fascism is a NATIONALIST authoritarian form of government that advocates the centralisation of power, lots of flag waving chest beating and pro millitarism. Liberal socialism doesn't not advocate anything like this, after WWII the US was a social democracy like other Western European countries. Google Britt's Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism.

[AlexNOSAM]

@zenideal There's about the same story in my place too. Good thing though is that the public realizing that quick. The leftists are already dying politically here and they'll almost certainly be nearly wiped out of the Parliament by the next elections.

[ReligionIsSophistry]

The tea party

[zenideal]

The Labor party is doing this in australia . destroying unions , attacking the bible turning men against women and women against men , creating dysfunctional families , robbing the poor and giving to the mulltinational mining companies . Pure evil !

[timmmahhhh]

@BarKafka Excellent relevant paraphrase. No apologies necessary by any means.

[Dalamantia]

It is easy to die in the line of physical battle when your courage is strengthened by the presence of your fighting comrades, but it requires a higher and more profound form of human courage and devotion calmly and all alone to lay down your life for the love of a truth enshrined in your mortal heart

[Dalamantia]

@seriousguynogames3 I hear you barking