Who goes Nazi? (from 1941)

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Mr. C is JD Vance to a T!

I thought that too, r2

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Wow. Thanks OP.

“ Sometimes I think there are direct biological factors at work—a type of education, feeding, and physical training which has produced a new kind of human being with an imbalance in his nature. He has been fed vitamins and filled with energies that are beyond the capacity of his intellect to discipline. He has been treated to forms of education which have released him from inhibitions. His body is vigorous. His mind is childish. His soul has been almost completely neglected.”

It's a great article. Read it a couple of years ago and then last year, and it's even more relevant now. Almost eerie.

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi….But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.”

[quote]the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success[quote]

We have all met this type, they go Nazi the minute the see the Nazi as winning.

[quote]Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi

I love this line and think of it especially when looking at the current members of his administration.

♪ Tomorrow belongs to me! ♫

Don't be stupid, be a smarty! Come and join the Nazi Party!

Young D is Dump:

[quote]I think young D over there is the only born Nazi in the room. Young D is the spoiled only son of a doting mother. He has never been crossed in his life. He spends his time at the game of seeing what he can get away with. He is constantly arrested for speeding and his mother pays the fines. He has been ruthless toward two wives and his mother pays the alimony. His life is spent in sensation-seeking and theatricality. He is utterly inconsiderate of everybody. He is very good-looking, in a vacuous, cavalier way, and inordinately vain. He would certainly fancy himself in a uniform that gave him a chance to swagger and lord it over others.

[quote]Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

[quote]Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

[quote]Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

I've always read that males drawn to the white supremacist/"Nazi" groups had poor, weak or non-existant father role models.

Probably similar to religious zealots or cult members: they replace daddy with a deity other powerful figure.

Bump for ongoing relevance.