Take The "NAZI Test"

I would venture to guess that those of us who are NOT moral idiots, hate Hitler. But, I would bet (based on polling data and voting patterns in the USA) about half of us probably hold the majority of Hitlers political views in common with him. I am NOT saying that if you hold these view you are "evil like Hitler" since his biggest evil was the acute pathological hatred for Jews and to a lesser extent of hate 'non-Germanic' people groups... but I think you'd be surprised at how the Nazi party thought society should be governed. Among these beliefs (*taken from the NSDAP... ie. 'Nazi Party' platform as expressed by Hitler in Munich in 1920, and the Nuremburg historical documentation of NAZI party activities and propoganda media*) are the following... If many of you are intellectually honest roughly half of you agree with most of these tenets :

1. Free health care paid for by the government
2. Support of abortion
3. A "war against smoking" cigarettes
4. Gun control
5. Confiscation and redistribution of the wealth of those deemed "the wealthiest Germans"
6. The removal of religious voices from public dialogue and policy development
7. Unrestrained spending and focus on government funded education
8. Governmental oversight and control of the views espoused by the press (i.e. a "fairness doctrine"),
9. The declaration of a "health crisis" and a "war on fatty foods"...
10. Unquestioning loyalty to "The State" and a subordination of views based on religious convictions to those views espoused by those the government labeled as "experts".
11. Government price controls and regulation over the profits of previously privately owned businesses,
12. Governmental diffusion of nuclear family life and the declaration that "the children" are now the responsibility of the state... Hitler believed it took a village... jk... but seriously
Just to name a few....

Most of these tenets are also espoused by the Soviet regimes that murdered 20 million humans in Ukraine, and the various Social Darwinist/Marx+Lenin inspired Fascisms/Socialisms. All in all despite spreading misery, oppression and the slaughter of over 100 million innocent lives in the modern century MANY OF US SOMEHOW HAVE UNWITTINGLY embraced the Socialist tenets of these nightmares of civilzation... hell, most college professors espouse them! Its sad, but AFTER ALL OF THIS a large portion of the west still clings to these ideas and somehow thinks we are "immuned" to their previous outcomes. I'm not so optimistic that we'll stop the next Hitler before its too late since this is the type of Governance that makes the ground "ripe" for a sociopathic dictator.

*this is not the exhaustive list, but this list comprises some STUNNING similarities to the platform of modern "progressives". The study of various fascisms leads to a difficulty defining exactly what makes them "tick", but most of these 12 are at the heart of most of the fascisms of the current century.

**NOTE, NOTE NOTE: I am not drawing any inferences beyond the striking nature of the 12 points as to any moral equivalent with any modern group in the USA to Hitler or the Nazi party. I am simply intending for us to beware of the assumption that we are somehow "immune" to the mistakes of the past. I PERSONALLY KNOW MANY PEOPLE WHO HOLD SOME OF THESE 12 TENETS THAT I AM GOOD FRIENDS WITH, WOULD WORSHIP AND PRAY WITH, AND WHO ARE GOOD FOLKS IN GENERAL... PLEASE LET US BE CLEAR, THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLY UNFAIR TO MAKE THAT INFERENCE...