Why America is as bad as Nazi Germany in the eyes of the left

As a follow-up to my reflections at the end of the last blog entry, there’s yet a further parallel between Germany and America in the thinking of liberals and leftists that makes them want to destroy both of those countries. As Otto Frank put it at the end of the World War II (in which his entire family had been murdered), what was wrong with Nazism was its “intolerance.” But, as I’ve written previously, if mere “intolerance,” rather than dehumanizing murderous brutality, is what defines the ultimate evil at the core of Nazism, then “intolerance” is a terrible threat to humanity and must be eliminated everywhere. Intolerance, unlike Nazism, exists in all countries. Wherever there is a distinct national identity, for example, there is implicitly a lack of tolerance for other national identities in the same territory. Therefore America, which has a strong national identity, is as threatening to the human good as German national identity, and therefore the American nation has to be eliminated along with the German one.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 17, 2005 09:51 AM | Send