Each of the quotes below is from a high ranking official or an official document of either the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, or the Nazi Party. Can you tell which is which?
1. “We demand…the prohibition of all speculation in land”
2. “We’re going to take things away from you for the common good”
3. “The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits and put them in to a strategic energy fund.”
4. “We are convinced that a permanent recovery…can only proceed on the foundation of ‘the common good before the individual good.’”
5. “The state shall share in the profits of large industries”
6. “Taxes are the dues we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”
7. “Public schools are the foundation of our education system.”
8. “Children … shall be educated at the cost of the state.”
9. “… the government [should] undertake the obligation of providing citizens with adequate opportunities for employment and earning a living.”
10. “…pregnancy may be interrupted if desired."
11. “A doctor may interrupt a pregnancy when it threatens the life or health of the mother."
++++++++++
Answers
1. Nazi – the “Twenty Five Point Program” Feb 24, 1920
2. Democratic – Hillary Clinton speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco, June 2004
3. Democratic – Hillary Clinton speaking to the winter meeting of the Democratic Leadership Conference, 2007
4. Nazi – the “Twenty Five Point Program” Feb 24, 1920
5. Nazi – the “Twenty Five Point Program” Feb 24, 1920
6. Democratic – Platform of the King County (Washington State) Democratic Party, May 23, 2006
7. Democratic – Platform of the King County (Washington State) Democratic Party, May 23, 2006
8. Nazi – the “Twenty Five Point Program” Feb 24, 1920
9. Nazi – the “Twenty Five Point Program” Feb 24, 1920
10. Nazi - Reichskommisar Kaltenbrunner, in an order to the SS and the SD dated June 9, 1943
11. Nazi - German Penal Code, 1933
3 comments:
That is a seriously scary checklist of policies, Matt .....
And, um, where were the Republican quotes? I'm sure we can find a few doozies to add to the list. Afterall, we are talking about human beings and the ideas they express.
Cyndi, you're right I should have included some republican quotes. But it was 2 a.m and I wanted to go to bed. I can go back and and some later today.
Elizabth, you are right. Thankfully, none of us has to live here on this earth for very long, and Jesus is comeing back.
Post a Comment