We see "the leader principle," "Führerprinzip," the essential problem of Nazism, in criminal organizations, totalitarian regimes and dictatorships of all kinds. When those liberals the framers of the founding documents of America set to write, they addressed and attacked and prevented entirely Führerprinzip. In the place of the Führer in America, is the President; but wait, the President is only the Chief Executive of the Executive branch. This branch is permanently balanced by Congress, and by the Courts. The Führer principle is not only unwelcome, but it is actively planned against, so that it can never happen here. America is already Nazism without this glaring error in it. In the Constitution, the Führer is the Executive branch, the Legislative branch, and the Judicial branch, all together, though not all doing or responsible for the same things. So the POTUS might be the closest thing to the Führer that we have, the POTUS is only the leader of one of the three branches of government, each equal in power, although sort of in a rock/paper/scissors way.
Federalism and Antifederalism is one ideological crossroad where Americans divide, both have strengths and weaknesses, and both are positively fatal to Führerprinzip, as they both uphold and defend the three branches of government, that in Führerprinzip, collapse upon the Führer alone.
Hitler's flag is brilliant. Can I tell you, when I had to scroll through this thread, I dimmed my eyes, and I easily saw your avatar among all the others, it stood out like a sore thumb, and Hitler himself designed this flag, he was an aspiring artist. He designed it on purpose, exactly that way, so that it would stand out, even when people were dimming their eyes and not paying much attention. He made it easy for them to see what flag it was, that color, and shape combination does something to the human brain, and the story goes that Hitler wanted, in the main, to evoke fear, in the Russians in particular, with that flag.
The rest is history, of course, but that was his idea before the train wreck. Innocent, as far as ideas go. Germany's Antisemitism was not, as we sadly, tragically, and horrifiedly learned. The question is, if not for Führerprinzip, would Germany's Antisemitism have ever materialized into the Holocaust that Nazism did, with Führerprinzip? You say no, and I agree.
Führerprinzip, plus Hitler's obsession with Russia, led to the Holocaust, which started due to a food supply shortage to a camp. Without food, prisoners were starving, which gave the regime just the outside nudge it needed to succumb to their built up psychological momentum, and begin one of the most gruesome, horrid, brutal, unfeeling, evil, twisted, malicious, murderous, wicked, merciless, psychopathic events the world's ever seen. Due to Barbarossa, Germany, which had caught everyone in Europe snoozing militarily, endured a major defeat, costing ordnance, lives, and armor.
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