More symptoms of insanity on the American right

[fpb]

In yesterday's American Thinker, a man with the Italian name of Bonelli wrote the following, extremely offensive statement:

The United States is different from most other countries in many ways. One unique aspect of our country is that our elected officials, officers of the court, and the military, all pledge their allegiance to the Constitution and not to an office, individual or party. This assures continuity of the ideals set forth by the founders.

As an Italian citizen, I have personally sworn to defend the Constitution of my country when I served in the Italian army. The presumption involved in this ignorant display of insular arrogance is an insult to every constitutional government in the world.

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[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

I do acknowledge that there were folks here in the US that were advocating eucenics and birth control and all that crazy stuff at the same time as/or before Hitler. I am no stranger to Margaret Sanger and her Eugenicist cronies . But things here took longer to be enacted than in Europe. Do you have an idea why that is, being a European yourself?

fpb will probably give a better and less ignorant answer, but this is a subject which has interested me for a while and I have my own ideas. (I'd invite correction though.) I would say that Europe was left spiritually vulnerable by the wounds of two world wars fought on her own soil. And in the case of Germany in particular, the wound left by the first of these, rather than having any time to heal, was quickly filled by Hitler's personality.

Still, that might not have happened without Hitler's American patron, Henry Ford, who bankrolled Hitler's rise to power and whose literature the Nazis translated into German and distributed. It is possible I am overstating Ford's role; Hitler had many supporters in America and internationally. But it was Ford's portrait, and no other's, which Hitler proudly displayed over his desk, and Ford whom he identified has his patron.

In a way, it was a blessing. All the same trends were in play in the US, and I think we only stepped back from the brink -- for a time -- because Germany (animated by the concentrated mania of a single personality) raced over the edge so far in advance of us. Even Ford repented when he was faced with the realities of the concentration camps.

Unfortunately the reprieve was relatively short-lived. The US has not always been at the very head of the pack with respect to legalizing the insanity, but it has been very close to it (the legalization of abortion in most Western European countries was after Roe versus Wade), and it is from the US that much of the funding for international abortion and euthanasia advocacy comes.

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

(I do also realize that I'm not European. ;)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

That does it. I will have to write an article - not because you are wrong, but because your portrait needs filling out.

Incidentally, after the war was over, Hitler's Minister for Labour, Dr.Robert Ley, applied to Henry Ford for a post in his organization. (A.& J. Tusa, Nuremberg, page 133)