Mike's America: Hypocrisy as the Left Refuses to Serve or Entertai...

Mike's America: Hypocrisy as the Left Refuses to Serve or Entertai...: If a Christian did this their business would be ruined! There are so many stories like this . A restaurant refusing to serve Trump support...

IN THE AGE OF POST-GODWIN Pt. 1: PRE-GODWIN. The rules of the internet are few; most anything goes, but there is one that is widely observed and respected when discussing politics - Godwin's Law. Godwin's Law, as promulgated by American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990, states 'As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler approaches', and the first to do so is deemed to have lost the argument. No longer. Not after last Thursday. After last Thursday, the 21st of July, Godwin's Law ceased to have value because last Thursday the political world jumped the shark, went though the looking glass, threw a rod, and witnessed Donald J. Trump accept the American Republican Party's nomination as its candidate for president of the USA, thus rendering Godwin's Law obsolete - now it is impossible to discuss Trump WITHOUT making comparisons to Nazisim and Hitler. Trump didn't start out as a fascist; indeed, he didn't start out as anything much apart from a failed businessman and narcissistic self promoter of no fixed ideology, but this doesn't go for his followers. The Trumpeters are drawn from the shallower end of the Tea Party gene pool and were desperate for a 'strongman' with 'charisma' to tell them what they wanted to hear, and so they got him. But we oniw all that. Here's where it gets scary. Those foolhardy souls who have tried in vain to argue politics with Tea Party nutbags will find they hold some strange beliefs; for instance, they insist that the Nazis were not a right-wing organisation but rather a leftist one based on the prima facie evidence that NAZI stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), or National Socialist German Workers' Party. See what they did there? 'Socialist'? Obviously any party that includes the term 'socialist' is one stop away from being Marxist-Maoist communist guerrilla revolutionaries, so ergo the Nazis were lefties. History, however, tells us something different. The truth of the matter is that the National Socialist Worker's Party (who, incidentally, never actually referred to themselves as Nazis, but that's another story...) were previously known as the German Worker's Party (DAP) but they and the little other nationalist proto-fascist parties were up against some fierce opposition. Post-Great War Germany was a wild hot bed of competing ideologies, but basically on the left they had supposedly jewish socialists and communists taking their cues from the recently liberated Russia, and a stack of demobbed and disgruntled and deluded German war veterans who reckoned they'ed been ripped off and could have won the war if it wasn't for the Kaiser, politicians, Jewish communists, German socialists, the British and French, reality, and who and whatever could interfere with their imaginings. The problem for these nationalist fruitcakes who, it must be admitted, had been to hell and back and then some, was not only had they lost the battle in France and Belgium but they were losing the battle at home. Munich underwent an albeit short-lived communist revolution in 1919 and communist/socialist ideas were gaining popularity across the polity so...what to do? Co-opt! Imitate! Borrow! Steal! NEXT: WHY IT MATTERS