haha 
I put this in XKCDâs Simple Writer and you were rather successful, not that many red (Less Simple) words.
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The âsocialistâ part of the National Socialist party wasnât really the big problem (and not one they really lived up to anyway). Itâs the âNationalistâ part of the philosophy that led to all those atrocities. As in âanything goes if itâs done in the name of our so-called National interests, civil rights and due process be damned.â
Guess which candidate the American Nazi Party is supporting? (Hint: itâs not Bernie Sanders.)
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I knew it would all fall apart with âthe Nazi union-busting, prison-labor crony-capitalist economy was socialist,â but there are just no simple words for those things (though there are a plethora of simpletons who think the Nazis were trying to create some Workerâs Paradise and thatâs why they were bad).
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the NSDAP had in early years some anti-capitalistic and socialistic ideas (Strasser and Röhm were the main figures of this party wing), but they were âremovedâ shortly after Hitler became chancellor
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Try a 4 point font.
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Yes, before the Night of the Long Knives there were left-wing Nazis like Röhm. Hitler took care of that, and after '34 they were an afterthought with the NSADP allying with the Conservatives to gain parliamentary power. But a careful nuanced account of the various left-wing and right-wing elements of the early NSDAP and how those evolved isnât something AlaskaJack would be likely to read.
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youâre most likely right - not even in the top ten hundred simple wordsâŠ
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Are you really from Alaska? Because that seems a bit rude.
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This is part of a right wing trend Iâve seen to pretend that the Nazis were actually leftists (which would be news to the communists they murdered!) and, therefore, have nothing to do with right wing thought and fascism.
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After Jonah Goldberg wrote his âLiberal Fascismâ fantasy piece a cottage industry of creating a mythology of the left-wing socialist Hitler developed. I honestly do think itâs a way for some to cope with the cognitive dissonance of seeing the far-rightâs talking points coming closer and closer to echoing Goebbels over time.
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Is that where the crazy idea comes from? It is just weird. I assumed it was a failure of the American educational system to impart history and the meaning of political ideas.
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I think it is also an attempt to eliminate all nuance from politics. Itâs as if they wanted to treat the left-right scale as one of morality (and practicality) and found this rather inconvenient elephant in the room.
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There are some people who will gladly pay you to tell them what they want to hear. Jonah had his finger on the pulse of the rubes, sold them a line, and it took off. Itâs something of an indictment of the American educational system to impart history and the meaning of political ideas, though in defense of the American educational system the sorts who believe this are not the best and brightest minds.
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Those are liberal fetishes. What use does a Sovereign have with those delusions?
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Iâd seen it before that, during the late 80s when someone wrote an opinion piece for the college newspaper.* He said something to the effect of âwhen Hitler and Stalin, the worldâs two greatest socialists, agreed toâŠâ But yeah, it seems to have really taken off after that book debuted.
*My favorite opinion pieces of all, after those on Facebook.
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If you think too deeply about the methods involved in public health, the rights of the individual can seem threatened.
And none of the Duke Brosâ charm.
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Some members of the SA who were former Communists were known as âBeefsteak Nazisâ (brown on the outside, red on the inside) by the right-wing elements of the party.
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