Who goes Nazi?

Who goes Nazi? A parlor game from Harper’s Magazine, August 1941, seeks to predict which people at an imaginary cocktail party will join the Nazis: “Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t-whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.” Thought-provoking article which may be relevant again.

Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

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  • Nazism, communism and any other form of socialism are next of kin. Neither trusts its populace; both despise God, both extol secular humanism, blatant sexuality, homosexuality; both extol sexualizing children down to the earliest possible age; both despise Western civilization; both despise private ownership; both desire state control over all facets of the economy; both advocate state control of the arts and the media; both desire to control the individual down to the thoughts in his/her head. One is not Left and the other Right. Both are leftist, godless, feckless, utopian pipe dreams. Both are progressive and regressive ideologies bent on world domination, the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization, law, governance, etc. Both are at the same time attracted to each other and repelled by each other. Both are lies. Both subject and enslave. Both kill. Both hate without reason. Both are to be feared and avoided at all costs...and here they both are, at our very door step! Wake Up! Is no one paying attention?

    • Yes, they loved f***s so much they light em up when they where depressed! -)

      You may want to check out a few things in the old book.

  • Perhaps Harper's was just Biden- err I mean biding their time until they republish the article.

  • "Mr. B has risen beyond his real abilities by virtue of health, good looks, and being a good mixer. He married for money and he has done lots of other things for money. His code is not his own; it is that of his class—no worse, no better, He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would."
    That reminded me of more than a few of our current politicians.