Read this, & then try to deny the terrifying parallels between many of the techniques, policies & especially the rhetoric deployed by Boris Johnson's @Conservatives, Trump's Republicans & the Bolsanaro, Oban & other right wing regimes, & Hitler's Govt.
Won mass support on the back of a major economic crisis
Offered voters a vision of a better future, one he contrasted with the policies of the parties that had plunged the country into crisis in the first place.
Hitler:
Initially attracted the poorest people to vote for him by demonising opponents.
Emphasised a nationalistic moral restoration of the nation.
Projected purpose and dynamism in contrast to dithering or acting as mere administrators.
Hitler:
Was a master at denouncing existing political & democratic conventions & manipulating the media.
Issued an endless stream of slogans to win potential supporters over: he would 'make Germany great again', 'give Germans work once more' & put 'Germany first'.
Hitler:
Would revive the nation’s rusting industries, laid to waste by the economic depression.
Would crush the alien ideologies—socialism, liberalism, communism—that were undermining the nation’s will to survive and destroying its core values.
Hitler:
Would "use vulgar comparisons" & “not shy away from the cheapest allusions.” Hitler’s language was
Never use measured or careful language.
Mobilise base allegations & vile stereotypes, designed to gain maximum attention from the media & maximum reaction from voters.
Hitler:
Would use sophisticated (& blunt) propaganda techniques taken from the new practice of 'public relations'.
Flaunt his vulgarity & exploited tribal hatreds;
Lied and lied and lied his way to success.
Hitler:
Insisted politicians of the other parties, were hopelessly venal and corrupt and should be put in jail.
Insist Nazi thugs were good people who were victims of a “monstrous blood-verdict”.
Insisted that liberal newspapers that criticized Hitler were the "lying press.”
Hitler:
Imprisoned vagrants.
Deported illegal Polish immigrants.
Demonized & shut down Feminist associations.
Pulled out of international organizations, tore up treaties with cynical abandon, dismantled or emasculated structures of international cooperation erected post WWI.
Hitler:
Triumphantly declared “our departure from the community of nations".
Assured voters he would “rather die” than stay within a community of nations
Gleefully challenged then shut down the country’s democratic institutions.
Destroyed the freedom of its press and media.
Hitler:
Got Goebbels to say: “If the Jewish press still thinks it can intimidate the National Socialist movement with veiled threats, if they think they can evade our emergency decrees, they should watch out! One day our patience will run out".
Hitler:
Made sure that with the disappearance of a free, critical media, & the subordination of law-enforcement agencies, the path was open for a massive expansion of political corruption at every level of the regime.
Nearly forgot: "Leading Brexiters who accuse civil servants of sabotaging Britain’s exit from the EU are adopting dangerous tactics similar to those of rightwing German nationalists between the two world wars, former head of the civil service has warned."
Today is one of Britain’s most shameful days ever: a stain on Britain’s reputation as a tolerant, fair-minded, lawful, democratic and welcoming country.
The barbaric #RwandaPlan was dreamed up following the #PartyGate scandal, as part of ‘Operation Save Big Dog’.
The #RwandaPlan was announced on 14th April 2022 by disgraced lawbreaking liar & former PM Boris Johnson, who in a speech at Dover falsely claimed it could potentially see Rwanda “resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead”, & claimed it would cost £120 million.
In reality, the capacity of the proposed facility in #Rwanda is 200 people/year, representing 0.7% of 2023 small boat arrivals.
The ACTUAL cost will be £1.8 MILLION for EACH of the first 300 deportees. There is ZERO evidence it will have a deterrent effect or be value for money.
New video footage makes it obvious that CEO of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Gideon Falter, set out to deliberately provoke trouble, garner attention, frame the narrative, & to mislead the Govt, the UK 'news' media, & the British people - and not for the first time.
The @metpoliceuk was forced to apologise. Yet as the new footage proves beyond any doubt, the Police Officer engaging with Gideon Falter, far from being punished, deserves a medal for his patience & professionalism, & should have arrested provocative troublemaker Gideon Falter.
That the widespread, hysterical & misleading national "news" media coverage & political commentary of this incident got it SO wrong reveals much about our broken, divisive & partisan news media, & our broken, divisive & partisan politics.
The 'shameless normalisation' of grotesque divisive racism is alive & well in Europe & beyond - even in relatively sensible progressive countries like Norway.
'The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic'.
This article is about the role of the media in contemporary racism: it outlines the discursive mechanisms through which insidious, hidden forms of racism are able to exist “invisible in plain sight,” even in the media & public discourse of 'progressive' countries, like Norway.
The study is part of a broader investigation into the role of the media in the life-experience of immigrants. It addresses the question: 'How did Norwegian media portray immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic?'
In a 1935 speech, Joseph Goebbels warned Nazi Party members that an 'international clique of conspirators' led by the far-left & an ethnoreligious group, were uniting to bring about the "absolute destruction" of all advances made by "western civilization". encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/fil…
Substitute 'Jews' for 'Islamists', 'far-right' for 'far-left', & 'racists' for 'woke', & then imagine how the entire billionaire-owned right-wing 'news' media & every right-wing politician would respond, if that was published by, say, the @BBC, rather than the Torygraph. 🤯
About the @BBC describing Reform as 'far-right', Richard Tice said: “There are very significant implications of calling a political party, and by implication, its leader and senior leadership team far right. It is that which is defamatory and libellous.”
One speaker is under investigation for right-wing extremism, others argue the Christchurch mosque shooter 'had legitimate concerns', gay marriage is 'a destructive experiment', & the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory is real!
The far-right ♥️ #NatCon
Who funds it?
The #NatCon2024 Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian 'think tank' funded by oil & gas money, & which received more than £1.3 BILLION in Hungarian state funding in 2020.
Nigel Farage's entirely predictable #NatCon2024 speech was live-streamed on the far-right #propaganda channel GB "News", bankrolled by bigoted evangelical "Christian" billionaire Paul Marshall, whose hedge fund has £1.7 BILLION invested in fossil fuels!