Sadly, it has become a revealing cliché. When you have nowhere else to go with your argument, you invoke Hitler and compare the evil-doer du jour to the eternally infamous Austrian corporal. In the overwhelming majority of cases, these comparisons, these “reductio-ad-Hitlerum” arguments are pathetic. Bush was a Hitler, Trump was a Hitler, in Canada Harper was a Hitler and in the UK in the 80’s, I’m sure Margaret Thatcher was a she-Hitler, aka a Shitler.
To my dismay, however, on rare occasions the comparison in warranted, though never in fullness. In other words, there simply has not been anyone who could be compared to the man responsible for the death of tens of millions, plus the near annihilation of European Jewry, plus the destruction of a whole continent. Let’s hope it will be a thousand years before someone is FULLY deserving of the comparison. Still, it is not off the mark to compare SOME of what Justin Trudeau is doing to old Adolf’s methodology. The Canadian Parliament - unlike the Reichstag - has not been set on fire, but initiating the seizure of bank accounts of protestors, the denial of due process (you cannot ever sue the bank or the government for stealing your money), the “othering”, defaming and demonizing of protestors, the wholesale buyup of the media, the unlawful detention (Pastor Artur Pawlawski is detained locally in Calgary but his arrest and denial of bail are based on Trudeau’s edicts) - all those are tried and true fascist methods practiced by Hitler. Elon Musk’s recent tweet is not without merit:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/elon-musk-tweet-compares-justin-trudeau-to-adolf-hitler/
My mother - may her memory be blessed - was a Holocaust survivor and a Stalinist regime survivor. Three years in Auschwitz, then 20 years in Communist Czechoslovakia where she witnessed the anti-Semitic orgy better known as the Slánský Trials
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1nsk%C3%BD_trial)
As her son, perhaps I am permitted a bit more leeway in this matter. No, there are no gas chambers in Canada and never will be (God only knows “never” is a long time) But let’s look at the totality of the situation as it stands:
No free travel. No free assembly. Severe limits on speech. De-banking of individuals deemed hostile to the regime. Limits on shopping, access to entertainment, sports events and more - unless you’re “clean” (aka “vaccinated”) And now threats of imprisonment, heavy fines and no access to a legal recourse. I don’t believe it’s wrong to call these tactics Hitlerian. It is not diminishing or making light of the Holocaust. Precisely the opposite. It is honoring the dead by reminding ourselves we must do all we can not to let these little sociopath dictators behave like AH and steal our liberties.
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Brilliant cartoon © Bob Moran (found on Twitter @bobscartoons)
It is projection, anyone who calls out actual threats to democracy and basic human liberty are labelled these terms that end up being defined simply by the association made between the word and the false narrative. words dont have meanings, meanings have words. The sad truth is that they play this semantic game because it works and because many people cannot see through the social illusion this is naturally an effective strategy. Very ironically, the NPC cliche of a progressive, as he robotically drives along his route clad fully in the societies new religious (socially binding) garb - which he does unconsciously out of a basic human need to feel connected to something of perceived meaning and collective involvement - is himself a fascist insofar as this inorganic religion (im using the latin root words meaning just as fascism doctrinally does) is something he not only participates in, but feels morally obligated and duty bound to evangelize the heathen mouth breathers like myself into because the religion must be the states raison d'etre. For the most part these people "know not what they do" - and so i forgive them; but i cannot forgive the ones planting that seed in them for they do know what they do. The populist democrat senator Huey Long once said in prophetic wisdom "if fascism ever does come to america, it will be under the guise of anti fascism".
In this case, I would agree that this feeble man is reducing himself to a wannabe despot. Hitler was unimaginably brutal and cunning. This idiot is desperate. I thank God that the comparison will not materialize into a reality.
At the end of the day, Canada is in trouble. We are broken. This isn’t going to end well for anyone if this buffoon keeps course.