Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

Jonathan Ball wrote:

> Rat & Swan wrote:
>
> > Don Swayser wrote:
> >
> > > I know more about the rise of Hitler than you could possibly know 
> > > Brian. His earliest supporters were ordinary people who were radical 
> > > leftists and were looking for an alternative to communism. After 
> > > Goering returned from exile in Sweden he opened doors for Hitler to 
> > > industrialists. His first supporters were, in particular, I. G. 
> > > Farben, Fritz Thyssen (Steel), Emil Kirdorf (Coal), August Diehn and 
> > > August Rosterg (Potash), Whilhelm Cuno (Shipping, Hamburg American 
> > > line), Otto Wolf (Industrialist), the Deutsch Bank, the Commerz und 
> > > Privat Bank, the Dresdener Bank and the Allianz Insurance A.G.. ALL 
> > > OF THEM WERE GERMANS Brian.
> >
> > Yes.  One of the frustrating things about trying to categorize
> > the Nazi party as left or right, capitalist or socialist, etc.,
>
> Liar.  You didn't have any trouble characterizing it as "right" when you 
> smeared the Bush administration with your fatuous, disgusting comparison 
> with the rise of the Nazis to power.
Maybe he's seen the errors of his ways Johnathan.
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