Ominous Parallels by Ayn Rand's protege

"Many writers have noted similarities between America today and Germany before Hitler, then have shrugged off their own observations--succumbing to the notion, spread by today's intellectuals, that it is bad history to compare two different countries. This notion, itself a symptom of our current crisis, means that there are no principles governing human action, and that it is bad history to learn from history.
The similarities, however, cannot be shrugged off. Our crisis is real. The crisis is the fact that our country, the United States of America--the freest, the most productive, and the most moral country in the world--is now moving in Hitler's direction..."
--excerpt from The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff
I have always thought it was intellectual suicide to draw these parallels then NOT look deeper into the culture to see if there was a Hitler lurking in the shadows. The same blind spot that was in Germany is present in America today by the followers of Ayn Rand such as Rush Limbaugh, Alan Greenspan and Jack Kemp. This website www.thenextstrike.com investigates who THAT MAN may be.

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[thenextstrike]

I suggest you take off your rose-colored glasses and read Judgement Day: My Years with Ayn Rand. To me objectivists are just brilliant sophists. It all sounds good until you break it down and discover shallow thinking leads to shallow living, as demostrated in Nathaniel Brandon's book.

[thenextstrike]

What is transparent is your own complete lack of objectivism and your lack of good reasoning. What's insane is that you are an example of the blindness that produced Hitler because you cannot connect the dots! How ridiculous to use a title like "Ominous Paralells" and then miss the fact that the most Ominous Paralell of all is that America produces the next Hitler like Germany produced the first one. If you cannot comprehend that then how can you call yourself a true Objectivist?

[thenextstrike]

This comment represents typical Ayn Rand sophistry which creates the very vacume that allows a dictator to rise. This happens b/c the Randites are unable to connect the dots and can not understand root causes. They have been in an intellectual maze for so long they don't realize they have become illiterate, they have abandoned the fundamentals. I will translate: DUH! America produces the next Hitler b/c you Rand-ites didn't comprehend the Ominous Paralells.

[thenextstrike]

The reason why it is unintelligible to you is because you are not very intelligent! If you were well read you would know how to connect the dots and wouldn't be making such unintelligent statements.

[thenextstrike]

Cont'd: ..perish with you. Throw your list of authors and books overboard before it is "Too Late," as Gen. MacArthur famously warned us. Now the only thing to read is the sign that says, "Wrong Way." Its much too late to turn around.

[thenextstrike]

Knucklehead: Have you ever heard of Nicaragua? If McCarthy was full of it, why was there an Iran-Conrta affair? According to you there weren't any communists there, just as there aren't any here--yet look we have one as our President. What you ought to read: None Dare Call It Treason by John Stormer. You may have read history but the wrong authors for the situation we are now in. What good would it have been to read about the "unsinkable" Titanic, it still sank!! Your logic will sink and perish.

[ShadowPa1adin]

It's a good thing thing this video is here. The one way to ensure America doesn't end up like Nazi Germany is to make sure the majority population feels threatened by an ethnic minority conspiring to harm them.

Then we can put a Real American in the White House who will be sure to find a final solution to the "Scary Black Men and Rainbows" problem facing America.

[dannidandannikins]

Rush Limbaugh- christian & outspoken opponent of abortion rights- is someone you label as influenced by Rand.

Alan Greenspan- chairman of the FED- is someone you label as influenced by Rand.

Jack Kemp- conservative- is someone you label as influenced by Rand.

It may interest you to learn that Objectivism explicitly condemns the conservative mindset, christianity (all religion in fact), laws against abortion, central banks, fiat currency and a million other things that those three stand for.

[codkiller100]

Hitler was a Altruist. -__-

[SpellboundSolution]

@TheColdTruth Reductio ad Hitlerum is never a joke.

[TheColdTruth]

lol, is this a joke?

[redshark618]

So.. Rand is responsible for all of America's problems?? One old lady's writings can't be THAT influential..

[Sharky165]

@warmongerpro

It means EVERYTHING, and there's NOTHING funny about it. Rand's philosophy in its pure state is for dreamers, and in its realpolitik state leads down the road to, at the very least, oligarchy / plutocracy -- and at its worst, TOTALITARIANISM. Ever wonder why the Tea Terrorists embrace Objectivism so passionately ???

[houndedinkc]

@ShadowPa1adin Careful some people might take your comment literally.

[warmongerpro]

There was a review for the Atlas Shrugged movie in the paper when it came out, the title of it was "Triumph of the Will." Of course, "Triumph of the Will" was the name of an infamous Nazi propaganda film. Doesn't mean anything, but I found it amusing.

[Mortonc3]

I'm confused, are you saying the civil rights movement is going to lead to the next holocaust? Maybe you should edit that video a bit so it has a clearer message, because of right now I think most people are coming away thinking you're an ignorant bigot who probably has incestuous relations with his sister.

[WhimsicalQuandary]

Black people are the REAL racists.