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VMA131Marine

(4,158 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 07:28 PM Feb 2018

Read the Wikipedia entry on Franz von Papen - Seriously, read it!

Specifically, the passage quoted below. Trump isn't Hitler, he's Franz von Papen, the man who enabled Hitler's rise to power. Note the policies he pursued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen

"Papen was authoritarian by inclination. Richard J. Evans described his philosophy as "utopian conservatism" due to his long-term goal of restoring a modern version of the Ancien Régime. He imposed increasingly stringent censorship on the press and repealed his predecessor's ban on the Sturmabteilung (SA) as a way to appease the Nazis, whom he hoped to lure into supporting his government.[99] Papen's economic policies, which were all passed by Article 48, were to sharply cut the payments offered by the unemployment insurance fund, subject all jobless Germans seeking unemployment insurance to a very strict means test, had wages drastically lowered (including those reached by collective bargaining) while bringing in very generous tax cuts to corporations and the rich.[100] Papen argued that lowering taxes on the well off and corporations would encourage them to spend and create jobs; that lowering wages would encourage businesses to hire and reducing unemployment insurance would force the jobless (whom Papen often implied were just lazy people who didn't want to work) to find work; and thus alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.[101] As 1932 was the worst year of the Great Depression with joblessness at an all-time high, Papen's economic policies of favoring the rich while punishing the poor enraged ordinary Germans, making him into Germany's most hated man.[101] Papen reveled in his unpopularity and took a great deal of pleasure in taunting and baiting his critics as he enjoyed provoking people.[102] Papen's thesis that lowering wages would make employers more likely to hire and less likely to fire employees was not a popular one as he was widely viewed as engaging in "one-sided catering" to big business.[103]"

Which makes Pence .......

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Read the Wikipedia entry on Franz von Papen - Seriously, read it! (Original Post) VMA131Marine Feb 2018 OP
Kicking for visibility! smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #1
well, that's uncanny renate Feb 2018 #2
Just browsing Wikipedia, like you do ... VMA131Marine Feb 2018 #8
History does echo. irisblue Feb 2018 #3
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Feb 2018 #4
No, Ryan RandomAccess Feb 2018 #5
The parallels between von Papen and Trump don't end there VMA131Marine Feb 2018 #6
And that could be someone we aren't aware of. Kaleva Feb 2018 #7
K&R hwmnbn Feb 2018 #9

VMA131Marine

(4,158 posts)
8. Just browsing Wikipedia, like you do ...
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 09:11 PM
Feb 2018

I had a hunch I'd find something interesting under his entry.

VMA131Marine

(4,158 posts)
6. The parallels between von Papen and Trump don't end there
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 08:54 PM
Feb 2018

Von Papen was born into a wealthy family. He was regarded as an intellectual lightweight, a useful idiot if you will. He was incredibly, self-destructively vindictive. If past is prologue, the person we really need to watch out for is the person using Trump to rise to power.

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