History’s Magic Mirror

This article posted on the Truthout Blog is well worth reading.  It covers, in part, the scary direction in which the United States is headed. Interestingly the Tea Party and other right wing groups have been running around projecting the kind of fascist government they knowingly or unknowingly support.  Even if President Obama is reelected it may only slow up this far right agenda. Well worth reading.

History’s Magic Mirror: America’s Economic Crisis and the Weimar Republic of Pre-Nazi Germany

Thursday, 01 November 2012 13:35 By Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, Truthout | Op-Ed

Germany’s economic crisis of the 1930s led to the rise of far-right populism and the Nazi Party, fueled by the corporate and military establishment. An American version of this “Weimar Syndrome” could emerge as the far Right closes its grip on the Republican Party.

Contrary to common wisdom, the ascendancy of the Tea Party, Christian fundamentalist, militarist, anti-feminist, anti-immigrant and other racially-coded right-wing elements in the Republican Party – that could gain preponderant influence over the nation in a Romney/Ryan Administration – is not new. It is the most recent example of the “Weimar Syndrome,” where liberal and Left parties fail to solve serious economic crises, helping right-wing movements and policies – that lack major public support, but are groomed and funded by the corporate and military establishment – to take power.     More…