National Socialism had a strong populist streak and that’s something they have in common with some of the more extreme conservative elements. For obvious reasons now they are mostly identified with the Holocaust and WW2, but many of their more mundane policies are of the kind that sounds great as long as you don’t think about them for more than half a minute or if you happen to be a moron. “We’ll just outlaw farmers losing the family farm.”, “Kids should learn practical things in school, not stuff some ivory tower egghead made up.”, “We’ll ban giving prep schools fancy names like those people are something better.”, “We’ll make sure that artists can paint properly and don’t just scribble something my dog could have done better.”, “We’ll build a 1000 tonne tank that will kick every other tank’s ass” etc. To such ideologies any suggestion that the common sense of the random undereducated guy confused by the world around him might not be the best guide is offensive.
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