America isn't Germany, its certainly not Nazi Germany and this bizarre and really pretty stupid Hitlerification of the election is both tedious and odious.
Let's get things nice and straight.
Bush isn't Hitler.
Kerry isn't Hitler.
Digital brownshirts are not instruments of Hitler (sorry Al).
Adolf is dead. His legacy of being the evil boogey man is being further secured by the slinging stupidity passing as political discourse. Arguments being waged in slag ads that focus not on what he has done but the faces of the enemy in the democratic party and slipping in a picture of Hitler just to insinuate to a scared populance that evil walks among us. The old evil, not the new evil that could be anyone and they might just have 40 pounds of explosives strapped to their chest, or a small nuclear device in their moving van outside. The new evil is just too damned slippery, too hard to pin down.
Fighting terrorism is like fighting a global guerilla style war with almost every flank exposed on our side and we don't even know what our enemy looks like. No, terrorists don't work well for TV spots. Hitler, yeah, Hitler's a scary looking and angry little man that everyone knows. Yeah. Hitler.
Bush isn't Hitler, Hitler was a better man than George Bush. At least he was up until he lost control of things and blew his brains out but he was still a damned site better at leading than little George. [Update: I should note that I don't think Hitler was a better "man" than Bush, I think he was a more dynamic and charismatic leader. I don't condone, in any way, shape or form, the atrocities Hitler visited upon the Jews or anyone else. But what I do mean to do is demonstrate that Hitler had a plan, he had his plans written down and he was attempting to complete his vision. George Bush has no plan, has no vision, has nothing but his own gut instincts that he's going by and they are sinking us deeper and ever deeper into the muck. Thanks to Dogtownboy and Ryan for pushing me to expand on the thought.]
But I digress, let's get away from leveling incendiary insults against each other, let's leave Hitler to his burning pits of hell, let's table any use of German terms or symbols, let's strive to raise up the electoral process and get it out of the muck. Let's make the presidential election a time of positivity, of debate, of making the nation stronger, rather than more partisan and divided.
Let's use this election as a means of making our nation greater, rather than weaker and more hate filled.
And please, let's leave Hitler out of it.
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