Amerika

As Plato pointed out, when a civilization gets too disorganized — through pluralism, a result of democracy — it falls prey to tyrants who appeal with a lowest common denominator message.

Broun was specifically referring to a July speech by Obama, where the then-Democratic presidential nominee said he supports a civilian force helping the military when it comes to national security: “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded [as the military],” Obama said in the speech that was largely a call to national service.

Responding to those comments, Broun told the AP Monday: “That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

“We can’t be lulled into complacency,” Broun added. “You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential.”

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Those who run on the most ambiguous platforms have the greatest potential to be tyrants.

Then again, history created both men: fear of Bolshevism created Hitler, and fear of instability in Russia created Stalin.