NAZIS

“NAZI” is the key word in modern defamation.  Doesn’t matter whose political far-side you’re on, left or right, the term “Nazi” is your preferred diatribe toward your opposite.  Calling someone a Nazi has replaced calling them a SOB or even worse.  It’s sort of an anti-intellectual upgrade of profanity, but profanity it is.  “A rose by any other name…”

I blame it substantially on Hollywood.  They have kept the Nazi mythos alive for going on eighty years.  At least a couple of Nazi or Nazi-type movies are released annually.  Nazis are ever on our mind. They have become the ultimate nonsecular evil. They are the color to paint your opponent.  It works!

Nowadays the Nazi concept represents strength attractive to rather uneducated and weak individuals.  “Think like a Nazi and you’re powerful like a Nazi,” is the limit of their philosophy. “Bomb a church, or beat up some innocents,” are their operations. Thus, the neo-Nazi: cruel, stupid, and profane.

It’s easy to beat up on the Nazis.  There were the bad  boys of recent history, killing millions.  Their atrocities are so very well documented. Yet, they had a glamour we simply love to see defeated – and always this happens.  No one counts of the deaths at the hands of Genghis Kahn, Mao, Stalin, various Popes, the Muslims, and more.  They get heat too, but nothing like the level of the Nazi.

So, thank you Hollywood for furnishing us with our current Satan.  It took nearly three generations, but worked perfectly. As well, it made a lot of money for the Nazi Hollywood promoters, their preferred measure of social justice.