By Joy Tiz —— Bio and Archives August 6, 2009
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I can remember the feeling I had when he spoke. At last, I said, here’s somebody who can get us out of this mess. (Campbell, Susan Bartoletti. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 2005, Pg. 19. )
He was so convincing on the speaker’s platform and appeared to be so sincere in what he said that the majority of his listeners were ready to believe almost anything good about him because they wanted to believe it. As time went on, it became clear that he thought of himself as the Messiah.He was the greatest orator Germany had ever known. Most amazing of all: he did it without a teleprompter. The comparisons between Hitler and Obama, while offensive to many, were inevitable. They both had the benefit of oratory skills and could deliver a stirring speech with minimal substance. They pitched the same ideology, “Everything must change!” Hitler used the Great Depression as his chance to seize power. The chanting, sloganeering, and fainting crowds—we’ve seen this all before, and the outcome wasn’t very constructive. It would be temerarious to fail to study the history of other cult leaders who rose to power at breakneck speed. The same Great Depression allowed FDR to get away with making radical changes in America. In attestation to the incompetence of our public school system, liberals never tire of claiming that Hitler was the ultimate right-winger. As usual, they are completely wrong. Hitler’s party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Liberals are always screeching about how conservatives are fascists. Jonah Goldberg does a masterful job of describing the fascist playbook:
None of us who reached high rank in the Hitler Youth ever totally shake the legacy of the Fϋhrer. Despite our monstrous sacrifice and the appalling misuse of our idealism, there will always be the memory of unsurpassed power, the intoxications of fanfares and flags proclaiming our new age. (Pg. 207)What Heck describes illustrates the power of the trauma bond. Bonds developed out of trauma tend to be far more durable than healthy bonds. The theory of Stockholm syndrome rests on the tenacity of traumatic bonding. (Carnes, Patrick J PhD. The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc, 1997). In 2006, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wrote The Plan: Big Ideas for America. Emanuel’s plan calls for universal citizen service, asserting that every citizen must do his or her part. Under the plan, young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five would enlist for three months of civilian service, which would require “basic civil defense training.” (Emanuel, Rahm and Reed, Bruce. The Plan: Big Ideas for America. New York: Perseus Books Group, 2006, Pg. 62). In a 2006 interview with New York Daily News reporter Ben Smith, Emanuel repeated his intention to compel civilian service. Emanuel offered these assurances: if we are worried about having to do fifty jumping jacks, the answer is yes; and the program will include uniforms and barracks. Obama proposed extending AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps, as well as requiring middle and high school children to serve fifty hours per year; college students would be have to serve one-hundred hours per year. But not to worry, your children may not actually be forced to serve; the government will simply refuse to issue your youngster’s high school diploma as punishment. At the time of this writing, the GIVE Act has passed Congress, though House committee staff are insisting that the act will not change the voluntary nature of service at this time.
In the years after the war I have often asked myself what difference it might have made had I known six million Jews had been annihilated. Before the defeat of Germany and in my frame of unquestioning obedience, it would have made no difference to my loyalty.” (A Child of Hitler, Pg. 121)Excerpted from: Obamanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House, Joy Tiz, MS, JD, Available August, 2009
Joy Tiz,Joytiz.com, has been quoted by Ann Coulter, as heard on Lou Dobbs radio, The Rusty Humphries Show, Bill Cunningham, KSFO in San Francisco, WOR in New York, Premiere Radio Networks, Air America and other major shows.
Joy was born in Chicago, long enough ago to remember when many democrats were actually normal people who were just wrong about everything. Joy holds a M.Sc. in psychology and a JD in law. Joy hosts The Joy Tiz Show Wednesdays at 2 pm Pacific/5 pm Eastern.
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