The biggest problem with there being such a stigma against the Nazis and National Socialism is that there is no boundary or goalpost on the right for arch-conservatives. The boundary of the far left in the West moves steadily toward their ideal, Marxism and Communism; their end zone.
The movement is seamless, almost undetectable. Actually, ALL of politics is moving in that direction, with no strong right boundary defined.
With no right boundary there is a steady drift of traditional conservative values to the left. Most major churches now recognize gays, for example. That one-time bastion of spirituality, the Catholic Church, is so full of Hispanics that many believe the next Pope will be a Latino. Here in America a strongly Hispanic Church means the Holy See is a formal supporter of amnesty for all illegal immigrants. So much for separation of Church and state.
Of course, the Left likes very much to equate the evil Nazis with conservatism. With no well-defined right, it’s a given that the conservative standard will move steadily to the left. This is happening even faster with the media controlled from top to bottom by the far-left liberals.
So, the objective of this project is to try and go beyond what damage the Nazis did to the conservative brand. Not by saying what they did was right but quite the opposite. We accept it, acknowledge it and shoulder the burden of it. In so doing, far from being the enemy to Jews, the Nazis become their strongest protectors. Never, ever again will we make such a heinous mistake; and to the last man, we will keep others from doing it, either.
In the eyes of liberals, the consequence of fully acknowledging the Holocaust is the most frightening thing the far right could possibly ever do. Acknowledging the Nazis is even MORE frightening because it means we become the standard bearers for the kind of rabid anti-Communism and anti-hyper-wealthy (both of which were, back then, virtually indistinguishable from Jews, at least at the macroeconomic level) diatribe that the liberals are trying to pull off.
Nobody has ever hated communists more than the Nazis. Nobody has ever hated the hyper-wealthy more than the Nazis. That will always and forever be our heritage. It’s in our genetic makeup, our very soul. It cannot be changed by political correctness or by any other force on the face of the Earth. No political circumlocution or rhetorical sleight-of-hand; NOTHING can or ever will change that.
To a lesser extent, the Nazis hold the standard against the gay agenda; and even against the assault of illegal immigrants (gypsies, back in the day) on all western cultures. Half of all Americans are opposed to gay marriage and almost as many are against amnesty for illegal immigrants; at least, until the unemployment rate is reduced by half and we can afford the burdens they will place on our already broken federal treasury.
As with the Jews, the Nazis must now be equally protective of immigrants. We can and will criticize them; not to keep them down, but to motivate them to greater things. We failed the “gypsies” once; we will not fail them again. We cannot. Ever.
Even the gay community’s irrational fear of Nazis can be turned around. Sure, the Nazis discriminated against gays, but modern evidence shows they were tolerant of the so-called “masculine gays.” The Nazi pogroms were directed against the effusively effeminate gays. All that really means in the modern context is that we should not enable or ennoble homosexuality.
We shouldn’t elevate homosexuality to a virtue as modern society does. We should not give up all hope that there is a cure. After all, nobody has ever proven it has a genetic basis; there is absolutely no scientific proof that homosexuality is even real.
And so, despite all the scary implications of National Socialism, there are enough good things to give one hope of traversing the wasteland of past horrors into a new cultural paradigm.
