Extremist Rhetoric

Or we could do a quiz…

Who said what:

A. “…above all the unity of a nation’s spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual… By this we understand only the individual’s capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

B. “The people must march forward as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline.”

C. “…moral law, binding together individual and the generations into a tradition and a mission, suppressing the instinct for a life enclosed within the brief round of pleasure in order to restore within duty a higher life free from the limits of time and space.”

One id from Hitler, one from Mussolini and one from FDR.

I was actually kinda proud to see that Italy passed a balanced budget amendment today. If they are Socialist yet can make a decision like that, kinda makes me wonder what we are and why we can’t make a decision like that.

[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I was actually kinda proud to see that Italy passed a balanced budget amendment today. If they are Socialist yet can make a decision like that, kinda makes me wonder what we are and why we can’t make a decision like that.[/quote]

Yeah…

Well…

Lets see how that works out, shall we?

[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I was actually kinda proud to see that Italy passed a balanced budget amendment today. If they are Socialist yet can make a decision like that, kinda makes me wonder what we are and why we can’t make a decision like that.[/quote]

Better value elsewhere I’d say.

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]SexMachine wrote:
They’re photos of American Christian Socialists. The raised right hand was done during the pledge of allegiance and has nothing to do with the Italian fascist salute. The Italian fascist salute was taken from the Roman army. Fail.[/quote]

This is the Roman salute and the Americans took it from the Romans too.

Alas, I am glad that you try to do your part citizen.

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Sorry, that’s not the Roman ‘salute’. It’s the single headed Roman eagle which, along with the double headed Byzantine eagle has been adopted by just about everyone at some stage.

In addition, it’s a National Rifle Association poster as opposed to some FDR fascist propaganda poster.

‘Because of the similarity between the Bellamy salute and the Nazi salute that emerged in Germany in 1920s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture as the salute to be rendered by civilians during the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem in the United States, instead of the Bellamy salute’

You must enjoy failing.

And as you have such an interest in Italian fascism you might be interested to know that this guy and his occupation of Fiume in 1919 has been described as the ‘precursor of the ideals and techniques of Italian fascism’: