Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "" video.

  1. Peterson hits on a key component of Hitler, Hitler the opportunist. Hitler always had visions of grandeur for himself. When he was living in hostels or on the street, he ran with Jews and he had no real issue with them. A Jewish doctor saved his mother at first and he was so grateful he wrote him a long letter praising him. The officer who put Hitler in for his Iron Cross, the award he said he was always most proud of, was Jewish. But Hitler was also aware early on of the deep antisemitism that ran in the German psyche. He picked up on it in the cafe's and beer halls in Austria prior to the war and after the war he heard it in Germany. Was he an anti-Semite at heart? Absolutely. You can't call for the evil he did without believing it. But as Jordan points out, he also went with the crowd on it as far as the intensity of his attacks were concerned. He was willing to go places no one else would and he surrounded himself with likeminded evil men like Himmler who were more than willing to kill for the sake of killing. There was a sense of destiny in the German national consciousness that needed to be purged. The mistake the allies made in 1918 was not occupying the country and convincing the population they had been defeated. Someone was going to pay for the stab in the back as they put it, and the built-in hatred of the Jews at the cultural/street level provided the excuse to scapegoat the Jews. Would the Holocaust have happened without Hitler? Maybe. But modern-day idiots who compare Trump, Bush, or anyone they disagree with to Hitler are just as bad as those Germans who went along with the Nazi's. They demonize those they have political and social disagreements on at such a visceral level that they dehumanize them. Isn't that what the Nazi's were all about? Those who live in glass houses. But perhaps I give these people more credit than they deserve. Perhaps they are just so ignorant that they are easily swayed by some blogger who calls everyone who's not a progressive a fascist. Still, when mainstream networks refer to white Christian nationalists, a term that is contradictory and intended to paint political opponents as enemies, not fellow countrymen, we should pay attention because if history teaches us one thing, it teaches us that evil people say what they mean and do what they say. It starts with name calling. Where it ends...Never again.
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