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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NAZIS WERE EVIL SOCIALISTS
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, for 75 years, America has been
the greatest nation in world history. America's standard of living is
envied by most. America's military is unmatched. America is a beacon of
freedom for all.
Unfortunately, America's foundational principles are under attack--
not by a foreign foe, but from within our own country.
Socialist Democrats oppose the rule of law that is essential to peace
and prosperity by supporting open border policies that consume hundreds
of billions in tax dollars and kill tens of thousands of Americans each
year.
Socialist Democrats' spending sprees put America $22 trillion in
debt, thus risking a debilitating national insolvency and bankruptcy.
Socialist Democrats support dictatorial and guaranteed-to-fail
socialism over the free enterprise economy that has created our
prosperity.
If the Mueller report is accurate, for 2 years, socialist Democrats
and fake news media allies used the big lie propaganda tactic to
undermine our elections' legitimacy and falsely accuse President Trump
of colluding with Russia.
History's most famous evil and horrific use of big lie tactics is by
the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazis, for short.
Not surprisingly, socialist Democrats and their fake news media
allies recently objected to my quoting Adolf
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Hitler's ``Mein Kampf'' to explain what the big lie propaganda tactic
is and how horrific the consequences can be for those seduced by it.
Germany's Socialist Party's big lie killed tens of millions of people
in the Holocaust and World War II, making it the most horrific and
deadly big lie in history.
Also, not surprisingly, today's socialists tried to revise history by
falsely claiming the Nazis were not socialists. Bunk.
Mr. Speaker, America can either learn from history or be doomed to
repeat it.
By way of background, freedom and liberty are the essence of free
enterprise, wherein supply and demand market forces determine which
goods and services are offered and at what prices. Citizens who produce
goods and services better, faster, or cheaper thrive, and everyone
benefits from that.
Conversely, socialism is the mortal enemy of free enterprise.
Socialist economies reject liberty, freedom, and market forces,
artificially dictate economic activity, and determine which businesses
and industries prosper and which do not. In a fully socialist economy,
government owns and controls all means of production.
So was Germany's Socialist Party socialists? The founders thought so
because they called themselves socialists. They certainly acted like
socialists.
Germany's Socialist Party's foundational 25 point platform stated, in
part:
Plank 13: ``We demand the nationalization of all previous associated
agencies, trusts.''
Plank 14: ``We demand a division of profits of all heavy
industries.''
Plank 16: ``We demand the . . . immediate communalization of the
great warehouses.''
Plank 17: ``We demand a land reform . . . for the free expropriation
of land for the purposes of public utility.''
Communalization, land seizure without compensation, nationalization
and government ownership of industry--those are all socialist policies.
Further, the German Socialist Party hated capitalism and free
enterprise. Nazi propaganda posters stated: ``The maintenance of a
rotten industrial system has nothing do with nationalism. I can love
Germany and hate capitalism.''
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote: ``In the final
analysis, it would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than
live in eternal slavery under capitalism.''
Mr. Speaker, Germany's socialist Nazis are a heinous example of the
marriage between big lie propaganda tactics and socialism, but they are
not alone. Soviet Union and Chinese-style socialism also subjugated or
exterminated tens of millions of people.
Mr. Speaker, America must learn from history. Socialism must lose and
free enterprise must win if America is to remain a free, prosperous,
and great nation.
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