Beware of Obama campaign

This presidential campaign has already featured an attack by the president on any self-credit that entrepreneurs hold for the success of their businesses based on their willingness to take risks, their hard work and their genius. They have been told in a scolding manner that the roads and bridges that were built by the government were equally significant keys to their business successes. Nazi Germany publications and speeches are documented to have included heated anti-capitalist (especially anti-finance capitalist) rhetoric. Adolf Hitler attacked what he called “pluto-democracy,” which he claimed to be conspiracy by the Jews to favor democratic parties in order to keep evil capitalism intact. The “corporation” was attacked by the Nazis as being the leading instrument of finance capitalism, always with the role of Jews emphasized. (‘Hitler: Profile of a Dictator,’ by David Welch, 2001. p. 16.)

Hitler said, “I want everyone to keep what he has earned subject to the principle that the good of the community takes priority over that of the individual. But the State should retain control; every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State… The Third Reich will always retain the right to control property owners.” Party spokesman Joseph Goebbels claimed in 1932 that the Nazi Party was a “workers’ party” and “on the side of labor and against finance”.

Regarding religion, the tenets of Catholicism and evangelical Christianity have been attacked in recent months by this administration. None of these issues had been before the electorate before being ordered by the administration. There have been activists on the American left who have been successful in putting issues on ballots to make any underage male circumcision illegal in some communities in California. Fortunately, none of these efforts have passed the electorate. The Free Exercise Clause will be debated over and over, but this administration is likely to lose most of the more than 40 recent suits against it regarding this clause.

This campaign has already clearly demonstrated which candidate is the best for our future. Watch, listen, and keep it all in a historical context. Demagoguery is colorless.

Leonard M. Moss, MD
Scottsdale, Ariz.