{"id":86346,"date":"2023-11-03T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86346"},"modified":"2023-11-03T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:41:44","slug":"history-rhymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86346","title":{"rendered":"History Rhymes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Devil&#8217;s greatest achievement was convincing the world he didn&#8217;t exist&#8221;<br \/>&#8212; &#8220;Keyser S\u00f6ze&#8221;, <em>The Usual Suspects<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the greatest achievements of the modern Big Left is convincing the world, and itself, that the Nazi movement of the 1920s and 1930s was, like today&#8217;s &#8220;American&#8221; &#8220;Nazi&#8221; party, a movement of ignorant blue-collar and no-collar losers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in fact a <em>youth <\/em>movement, led by academics and artists.  Besides Hitler himself, most of the cabinet that ran Germany from 1933 to 1945, much of the party&#8217;s senior leadership were writers, playwrights, journalists, painters and academics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same as the Communists before them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And same as today&#8217;s Big Left. This is Judith Butler, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/IranAnalyst_\/status\/1718801516625031561\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you wonder if today&#8217;s Big Left is bigger and more powerful?  You&#8217;re not alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Devil&#8217;s greatest achievement was convincing the world he didn&#8217;t exist&#8221;&#8212; &#8220;Keyser S\u00f6ze&#8221;, The Usual Suspects One of the greatest achievements of the modern Big Left is convincing the world, and itself, that the Nazi movement of the 1920s and 1930s was, like today&#8217;s &#8220;American&#8221; &#8220;Nazi&#8221; party, a movement of ignorant blue-collar and no-collar losers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-pc","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86372,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346\/revisions\/86372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}