Adolf Hitler came to power through a series of free and fair elections.
He worked his and his Nazi party's way through the German parliamentary system, gradually gaining votes and seats until his was the biggest bloc in the Reichstag, or German parliament.
But he wasn't quite where he wanted to be. There were still people who could legally tell Hitler to piss off, and Hitler didn't like that. Then came the Reichstag fire. Right during the runup to the next set of elections someone went and burned down the Reichstag building.
Now imagine the US Congress burned down right before a presidential election. Let's say it would have happened in 2004, right as W was trying for another term. Can you imagine how the feds would have reacted? Actually you don't have to if you just remember what happened after 9/11. I'm looking at you PATRIOT act, warrantless phone tapping, military detention without trial and Guantanamo.
Now imagine it wasn't W in charge during a time of national crisis but Hitler. You don't have to be a genius to see this Reichstag fire thing came at an awful convenient time for a power hungry fiend looking for a reason to consolidate his rule.
And you don't have to be much of a conspiracy theorist to speculate as to who might have set that fire.
Which is why every time I hear this song, I always imagine a scene in a Mel Brooks-like "History of The World" type movie. It would be a kind of dance number thing, with uniformed Nazi's holding torches moving in perfect choreography as they set torch to the last speck of German democracy. The flames go up and the lights go out for Europe.
I can see it it my head. The whole dance number. Every time I hear this song. Tell me it isn't perfect.
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He was a common criminal arrested for thuggery and while he was in jail he spent time writing, and thinking how to overtake the world. An, we're seeing it play out here on the American media altar, with a lot of irrelevant and stupid noise that the great unwashed unthinking masses are finding that they can join in the unhappy yammering. Not a man, no plan, and definitely not Obama is how to describe Herr Drumpf the son of a German owner of a house of ill repute, always managed to get out on top, just like this great brainless nimwit of voicebox.
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