At the risk of exemplifying Godwin's Law -

[hedgehog]

IIRC, Hitler's early backers were wealthy industrialists. Obviously, they never expected nor wanted him to bring down the country around their ears. I think the money men behind the Tea Party and other right wing bastions are experiencing the same regrets. I'm afraid the Tea Party congressmen are out of anyone's control now.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Without corporate funding

the teabagger 'movement' (and I use that term in the most scatological of terms possible) will wither and die on the vine. I predict that will happen, seeing that everyone from the reprehensible Kochs to the national Chambers of Commerce can't seem to distance themselves from the currently unfolding debacle fast enough. Perhaps it's in their grand scheme to actually destroy economies around the globe and engender civil wars along with unfathomable amounts of human suffering, but I don't think so. They want to enrich themselves the old-fashioned way, as their predecessors the robber barons did during the Gilded Age, but the scenario that would unfold if the teabagger agenda actually came to fruition carries too great a risk to their precious hides.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Fortunately, the Tea Party's 'Hitler' has passed.

[cali]

3. yeah, but so what? that's been true in many nations

wealthy industrialists will always go where they think their interests lie, and largely they think their interests lie with right wingers.

[rock]

4. Let's emphasize that point cali

They THINK their interests lie with right wingers. But they are wrong. It's true under repiggies the width between rich and poor grows, but it is scanty absolute growth. While under Democrats there is real growth and both classes surge ahead. Of course the width between them decrease, and this may be what they can't stand.

[hedgehog]

6. The likeness here is that in both cases, wealthy industrialists

financed a right wing fringe group in order to advance their interests, only to see the group go out of control and cause great damage to the entire country.

[1-Old-Man]

5. Concerning Godwin's Law, it is invoked exclusively by god damned idiots

To suggest that comparison with the most tragic failure in easily verifiable history is out of bounds for no good reason what so ever - because those who invoke this "law" never say how the analogy is incorrect or inappropriate, only that for some reason they don't want to hear it. It has also been my experience to note that those who invoke this so called law nearly never know anything factual about the origin, rise, short time in power, and fall of the Nazi regime. What little they recite seems to come directly from the History Channel.

You know the old saw about people who know no history and what the future has in store for them, well, the law points them out real quick.

By the say, Hitler attended his first meeting of what would become the Nazi Party as an observer sent by the state, you can find reference to this in some very easy to find books, including "The rise and fall of the third Reich" (William Shirer) and toward the tail end of the military "History of the First World War" (John Keegan) as well as others.

[Laelth]

7. +1. n/t

-Laelth

[Vashta Nerada]

8. I see Godwin's Law invoked all the time on political message boards other than here.

It's bad on MSNBC (Obama is Hitler, dontcha know?) and Yahoo!. I also hear people referring to political party members (Democrats and Republicans) as Nazis in conversations I hear throughout my travels.

Is it wrong that I want to punch anyone who invokes that law?