Comments by "Hittite Charioteer" (@hittitecharioteer) on "The culture war is really a class war, with Rod Liddle | The Brendan O'Neill Show" video.

Nazism hadn't AT THAT POINT indicated the direction they'd imminently choose. Players probably ordered to salute – just like the dopey bunch now are ordered to 'taking the knee'.
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Haha 😄 I've met Rod Liddle a couple of times. A genuinely interesting man; but it's only the last 3 or 4 years he's really returned to the public's awareness – after Blair's Cabal ousted him from the BBC Today program. And listening to him in private, I think this event in his life turned him from his 'lefty politics'. That suddenly those politics seemed to him to be thoroughly flawed – both in their idealism, but ESPECIALLY in a PROFOUND DISLIKE for the people espousing them. He still belongs on 'the left'. But the SDP? Really? Rod needs to find some bedfellows. Not bed wetters. I hope there's opportunity ahead for political change. I'm impressed by Richard Tice (Reform); and he's saying much that the Centre Left AND Centre Right MPs can find common cause with. Always difficult for outsider parties; but there's no love for any of the existing parties.
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@gagamba9198 He was part of the nutter brigade in his time. But he hated Blair, Campbell and Mandelson with good reason. He was pretty cold over Straw, Reid, Nick Brown, Gordon Brown, Alan Milburn and Prescott. He could see what damage was being done BEFORE the illegal war in Iraq.
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He does now. Not the case 20 years ago. He is a changed man. For the better. And yes: I like what he has to say. But, wokism is an easy target. If normal politics should ever resume, then it'll be interesting to hear his stance on policing, criminal justice system, tax, spending, American politics, the EU, etc.
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@sundaystars9669 Oh, I agree absolutely. But no mass media in those times. Probably seen as a diplomatic sop. It is hard to be absolutely sure the circumstances pertaining to advice "passed down the line" from HM Government of the day.
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@spm36 Hey, cool it. I'm not defending Nazis, I ASSURE you. All I was indicating, was that no one in the early 1930s had grounds to anticipate the future atrocities of the Nazi regime. Many historians of the day attest to this. Unfortunately, the failure of intelligence did not apply solely to Germany and its re-armament; but to Imperial Japan, Italy. and afterwards in Russia and the Balkan States. The fact is, many western countries had fascists in their midsts: some resulted in terrible civil wars (Spain and Portugal, even Greece). Indeed France had a vicious faction in its borders. As the break-up of the former Yugoslavia of only 20 years ago proves, it is an ever present danger in many places 🖖🏻
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@nickhanlon9331 Yes, indeed. But it was going on in many places. The rise of America's Cosa Nostra was witnessing the murder of politicians, business owners, police… I'm not convinced hindsight is so wonderful in the case of the British. We have a long history of looking the other way…until forced to act.
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