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Thoughts on American Nazis
Jun. 5th, 2006 04:28 amToday we watched a show on the History Channel, Nazi America: A Secret History. It goes into the history of the movement here in the US, both prior to WWII and up to the present day. It pissed me off, as shows about Nazis usually do. The portrayal was fine, it's just Nazis and other types of racist assholes that piss me off. In the end, however, it actually reduced a lot of my anger, because if there's one word that describes American Nazis, it's ineffectual.
When I look at footage of the German Nazis, I'm always struck by the confident, powerful image they put out. They're evil as fuck, but the Nazis in their prime always looked like they knew what they were doing. They were propaganda geniuses, which of course, is how they came to power in the first place. They always exude an air of dignity, accomplishment, and power. They had great pageantry, huge, greatly choreographed rallies, chanting in unison, all that shite. Their message was straight evil, and when you get into the specifics, downright absurd. But because they were geniuses at projecting that image of competence and power, they were able to fool millions of Germans into marching lockstep off the edge of the cliff with them.
When you look at American Nazis, particularly today, it's pathetic. There's no sense of majesty or triumph, no grandeur or confidence. They come across as 3 year olds throwing a tantrum. Whereas the real Nazis projected such a powerful image that people got swept up in the movement almost instinctively, the Nazis in America come across as exactly what they are, a bunch of deluded, ignorant rednecks with a bad grasp on reality. Instead of well-choreographed rallies of men, women and children marching proudly with a sense of destiny, you get a bunch of crackers in badly stenciled "white power" T-SHIRTS(!) stomping on the ground and throwing sloppy "Seig Heil" salutes with the right hand while nursing beers in their left, getting sloppy drunk and incoherently shouting "White Power!" over and over again. That's all they say, because they really haven't thought it through past that, for the most part. As backward and silly as Nazi "philosophy" is, I doubt that the majority of these doorknobs even have a grasp of what it does say. They live sad little unfulfilling lives, and rather than seeking out the real cause of their troubles (a lack of education for most of them, I suspect), they decide they're going to blame their troubles on various minorities who are "taking their jobs" or "diluting their pure, Aryan blood". After all, the science that shows that genetic diversity is a good thing is probably a Jewish plot.
Even with the occasional few of these jackasses who turn violent, (The Order, Tim McVeigh), I'm glad to see how disorganized these twits really are. It virtually guarantees they never will achieve any real, substantial power in this country. There would need to be some kind of serious change before I would suspect any of this crowd develop enough neurons to rub together to approach the evil genius of a Himmler, Goebbels or Riefenstahl. Maybe if they stepped out of their gene pool they could do it in a few generations, but luckily their ideology will prevent them from that, and they are therefore evolutionarily self-correcting. Rather poetic for a philosophy so fond of Social Darwinist notions.
When I look at footage of the German Nazis, I'm always struck by the confident, powerful image they put out. They're evil as fuck, but the Nazis in their prime always looked like they knew what they were doing. They were propaganda geniuses, which of course, is how they came to power in the first place. They always exude an air of dignity, accomplishment, and power. They had great pageantry, huge, greatly choreographed rallies, chanting in unison, all that shite. Their message was straight evil, and when you get into the specifics, downright absurd. But because they were geniuses at projecting that image of competence and power, they were able to fool millions of Germans into marching lockstep off the edge of the cliff with them.
When you look at American Nazis, particularly today, it's pathetic. There's no sense of majesty or triumph, no grandeur or confidence. They come across as 3 year olds throwing a tantrum. Whereas the real Nazis projected such a powerful image that people got swept up in the movement almost instinctively, the Nazis in America come across as exactly what they are, a bunch of deluded, ignorant rednecks with a bad grasp on reality. Instead of well-choreographed rallies of men, women and children marching proudly with a sense of destiny, you get a bunch of crackers in badly stenciled "white power" T-SHIRTS(!) stomping on the ground and throwing sloppy "Seig Heil" salutes with the right hand while nursing beers in their left, getting sloppy drunk and incoherently shouting "White Power!" over and over again. That's all they say, because they really haven't thought it through past that, for the most part. As backward and silly as Nazi "philosophy" is, I doubt that the majority of these doorknobs even have a grasp of what it does say. They live sad little unfulfilling lives, and rather than seeking out the real cause of their troubles (a lack of education for most of them, I suspect), they decide they're going to blame their troubles on various minorities who are "taking their jobs" or "diluting their pure, Aryan blood". After all, the science that shows that genetic diversity is a good thing is probably a Jewish plot.
Even with the occasional few of these jackasses who turn violent, (The Order, Tim McVeigh), I'm glad to see how disorganized these twits really are. It virtually guarantees they never will achieve any real, substantial power in this country. There would need to be some kind of serious change before I would suspect any of this crowd develop enough neurons to rub together to approach the evil genius of a Himmler, Goebbels or Riefenstahl. Maybe if they stepped out of their gene pool they could do it in a few generations, but luckily their ideology will prevent them from that, and they are therefore evolutionarily self-correcting. Rather poetic for a philosophy so fond of Social Darwinist notions.
