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"In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes"
-Jeff

Comparing people to that of the ideals of Hitlers Nazi Germany is essentially giving up the value of your own opinion, for one of the limpest cheap shots of this century. Although I admit I feel like doing this at times, I would rather use an analogy that is less universally offensive. But everyone is susceptible to this, especially this day in age. On an opinion website, it doesnt take much political thought before someone might call you a Nazi. People who have experienced this know there is nothing quite like the first time youve been called worse then Hitler. And once it happens all rational dialogue is pretty much lost. Now on a grander scale this might be why there is complete worldwide miscommunication. Anyone can call a country, an ideology, or any group the epitome of evil. But where the hell do we get off using Hitler and Nazi analogies? Well lets do some real viable comparisons, shall we?

Well start with terrorists. Now Im sorry to any terrorists out there, but I have personal bias against you. You seem to fit the bill pretty well. You fund violence, you fund death squads, and you threaten every possible civilian, and undermine every possible government. Youre anti-Semitic which is ironic because all middle-eastern people are Semitic. You want nothing but death to all Jews, Christians, non-believers, Sunnis, and Shiites, which pretty much means death to everybody, except South Asians, which you dont seem to really care about But I could be wrong about that one. Also, being called Nazis doesnt seem to bug you as much as being called a terrorist.

Now, Democrats might think this is absurd but you have similarities as well. Youve been distorting facts, revealing facts, undermining war, undermining peace, scaring the public with the apocalypse and global warming, supporting socialism, supporting eugenics, media propaganda, juvenile violence, nasty language, bullying, intimidating, retreating, enslaving minorities, silencing opinions, telling people to shut up, sympathizing with evil, having no morals, having no soul, and are secretly being controlled by self-genocidal Jewish conspirators. Yep, believe it or not, Dems have some definite similarities to Nazis.

And Im sure you Conservatives are no stranger to your accusations. Apparently you support warmongering, pre-emptive war, illegal gas bombing, illegal torture, illegal spying, crusading, and privatizing an uncontrollable military industrial complex. Youve called for religious profiling, racial profiling, youve gone completely nationalistic, you have specific groups to blame for everything wrong in your country, and you have a glorified dictator voted in under desperate measures, with a monopoly on the countrys media and Christian fan base. Oh yeah, and everything I said about the Democrats applies to you as well; except for the global warming, which is just plain ridiculous.

Now unfortunately we all do stuff that Nazis did. But does it ever make it any easier when we compare people to them? Cant we figure out whats wrong with this world without bringing up World War 2? Nazis did a hell of a lot of things, but most of it is hardly unique. Democrats and Conservatives arent Nazis. Youre all just a bunch of ants, working on two different ant hills, thinking your hill will provide you better food, shelter and protection. And terrorists arent Nazis either. Germany had an actual achievable goal. Al Queda is a sorry band of starving anarchists, with nothing better to do with their lives, than die. Theyll keep making the world paranoid, which will only make things worse on them and their loved ones, and theyll never have a chance of winning. At best you can compare them to 1945 Japanese suicide pilots, except they will probably think its a victory when the U.S. gives up, and nukes Tehran.