Just remember, this guy was a general at one point

[ck4829]

"We have incrementally moved towards Marxism and now I think it's at an accelerated pace. There are lots of indicators as to exactly how we're moving along the lines of the Marxist model - if you look back historically at how societies, what they've done as they've moved toward Marxism, we're doing all of those things.

One of which is, you look at Hitler - and one of the most disgusting things I hear is people who call Hitler "the extreme right." The absolute opposite was true - it was the National Socialist Party, he was an extraordinarily off-the-scale leftist. But many Jews in America, for example, can't identify with the Republican Party because they're called the party of the right and they equate that to Hitler when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. So, that's just a data point.

One of the things that Hitler did was he established the Brownshirts. The Brownshirts where his constabulary force to control the population because, as you're making these radical changes, there has to be some entity that stands by you with the strength and the muscle to allow you to make these over the opposition and the protest of the sovereign, the people. So Hitler had the Brownshirts.

Well, in the lead-up to the election, during the campaigns, our current president said very openly, and you can find it on YouTube, if I am elected President , I will have a national civilian security force that is as large as and as powerful as the US military."

- Jerry Boykin, retired General

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-obama-creating-personal-brownshirt-army-enforce-marxism

This must be the right's playbook, just load a speech full of so much stupidity, so many errors, and so many things wrong with it that the only way a person can refute it in it's entirety is if they don't mind losing their sanity.

And since this seems to bring out trolls every once in a while who do say "But maybe Nazis were leftists"; no, they weren't. One of the first things they did when they seized power was outlaw communist parties, they threw socialists in death camps, and their platform included destroying what they called the 'godless and decadent' liberalism.

[hobbit709]

1. In the modern military it doesn't take ability

It just takes the ability to suck up to the right people and tell them what they want to hear. Being a good management type is more important than military ability.

[coalition_unwilling]

4. Colin Powell made his career (starting with My Lai) doing just that - n/t

[OHdem10]

2. Marxism is a socialistic ideology of the Left. FASCISM is a socialistic

ideology of the Right

What separates the two? Their Relationship to BUSINESS and
CORPORATE INTERESTS.

Fascism is the merger of the STATE and BUSINESS with Business
holding great power.

Marxism means the STATE has control over Business. They own
and operate the Businesses.(Communism)

We lean more Fascist because of Corporatism(Business Power)
Corporatism is another word for Fascism.

Nazism is totalitarianism. Hitler took Germany from Fascism
to Nazism.

Marxism was taken to totalitarianism Stalinism.
Stalin stretched it to Stalinism.

Fascism is Right and Marxism is left. Totalitarianism
no longee just Business in Control. Control reached to
human individual behavior. Naxism and Stalinism

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. The same general who called the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan a 'crusade'. nt