Hitler’s Big Money
The billionaires helped Hitler too!
Disappointingly, many in the business world seem to support Hitler’s assertion that “democracy is bad for business”. Trump must agree with that.
“In early February 1931, August von Finck, accompanied by Kurt Schmitt, the opportunistic and well-connected CEO of Allianz, was to meet Hitler for the first time […] Hitler sketched a capitalist’s nightmare to the financier duo; he “conjured up the spectre of unemployed masses rising in a leftist (think communist) revolt.” Von Finck and Schmitt agreed with Hitler’s view [and] pledged to make ℛ︁ℳ︁ 5 million (reichsmarks) available via Allianz to arm the SA [Hitler’s personal paramilitary].
Hitler was speechless […] at “the kind of power big business wields […] his economic adviser warned him about the businessmen: “They want to earn money, nothing but money, filthy money—and they don’t even realise that they are chasing a satanic phantom [the leftist threat]”. Hitler did not care. Many more millions were about to be pledged.”
(Nazi Billionaires by David de Jong.)
This is the well from which Trump drinks. You think Trump does not know that tariffs are paid by U.S. citizens? He acts like he doesn’t get it. He gets it.
He does not care from where the money comes, he just wants it to be a lot of money going in. He has plans to steal the money from the U.S. Treasury.
The source of the money is not material to him. You think he cares about food stamps for the indigent?
Trump is cutting the $230 billion SNAP program to promote a tax cut for himself.
He cares only about himself.
You can never forget that about a narcissist.
The Road Ahead. Trump already asked our military to shoot our citizens on the streets, “Can we shoot them in the legs?”), but the military refused. Not he plans to arrest protestors. You know how far with this that he is going. The next fork in the road, no one knows what will unfold. Grab a flashlight, we are in the dark now.
The sad and scary fact is that billionaires prosper under fascist regimes, so misery for the masses of people mean nothing to the billionaires with no conscience. Which are most of them. Wholesale resistance on a massive scale - nationwide strikes, dangeous street demonstrations, constant provocations against the politicians enabling the oligarch takeover, will likely be necessary. How horrible that the US has come to this.