koshergrl
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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to powerShow collaboration?
No?
Liar.
Now shut the fuck up.
And liberal progressives supported both Hitler AND Stalin, dickhead, so YOU shut the fuck up!
Progressives generally greeted the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia with great enthusiasm, embracing it as a worthy effort to create a socialist utopia. In the 1920s and 1930s, a host of credulous progressive journalists traveled to Russia to chronicle the the revolution's afterglow, so as to inform Americans about the historic significance of what was transpiring there. According to author Jonah Goldberg: Most liberals saw the Bolsheviks as a popular and progressive movement.... Nearly the entire liberal elite, including much of FDR's Brain Trust, made the pilgrimage to Moscow to take admiring notes on the Soviet experiment.
One key contributor to this pro-Bolshevik genre was the communist journalist John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World. Reed dismissed concerns about the Red Terror and the mass murder of non-Bolshevists by praising the killers of this treacherous gang. Said Reed: To the wall with them! I say I have learned one mighty expressive word: raztrellyat [sic] (execute by shooting).
Similarly, the intellectual E.A. Ross excused the Bolsheviks' violent campaign of terror on the theory that they did not kill all that many people. (Estimates of the number of deaths by execution range from 50,000 to 200,000.)
H. G. Wells, one of the most influential progressives of the 20th century, said in 1932 that progressives must become liberal fascists and enlightened Nazis. Regarding totalitarianism, he stated: I have never been able to escape altogether from its relentless logic. Calling for a Phoenix Rebirth of Liberalism under the umbrella of Liberal Fascism, Wells said: I am asking for a Liberal Fascisti, for enlightened Nazis.
The poet Wallace Stevens pronounced himself pro-Mussolini personally.
The eminent historian Charles Beard wrote of Mussolinis efforts: Beyond question, an amazing experiment is being made [in Italy], an experiment in reconciling individualism and socialism.
Muckraking journalists almost universally admired Mussolini. Lincoln Steffens, for one, said that Italian fascism made Western democracy, by comparison, look like a system run by petty persons with petty purposes. Mussolini, Steffens proclaimed reverently, had been formed by God out of the rib of Italy.
McClures Magazine founder Samuel McClure, an important figure in the muckraking movement, described Italian fascism as a great step forward and the first new ideal in government since the founding of the American Republic.
After having vistited Italy and interviewed Mussolini in 1926, the American humorist Will Rogers, who was informally dubbed Ambassador-at-Large of the United States by the National Press Club, said of the fascist dictator: Im pretty high on that bird. Dictator form of government is the greatest form of government, Rogers wrote, that is, if you have the right dictator.
Reporter Ida Tarbell was deeply impressed by Mussolini's attitudes regarding labor, affectionately dubbing him a despot with a dimple.
NAACP co-founder W. E. B. DuBois saw National Socialism as a worthy model for economic organization. The establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany, he wrote, had been absolutely necessary to get the state in order. In 1937 DuBois stated: there is today, in some respects, more democracy in Germany than there has been in years past.
FDR adviser Rexford Guy Tugwell said of Italian fascism: It's the cleanest, neatest, most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I've ever seen. It makes me envious.
New Republic editor George Soule, who avidly supported FDR, noted approvingly that the Roosevelt administration was trying out the economics of fascism.
Playwright George Bernard Shaw hailed Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini as the worlds great progressive leaders because they did things, unlike the leaders of those putrefying corpses called parliamentary democracies.
Progressive Support for Russia's Bolshevik Revolution - Discover the Networks
Progressives don't do history.
For obvious reasons.