"By inverted I mean that while the current system and its operatives share with Nazism the aspiration toward unlimited power and aggressive expansionism, their methods and actions seem upside down."
- Sheldon Wolin
This particular notion of the reading really captured my attention, because Wolin compares the United States political system to Nazism in terms of aspiring to unlimited power and aggressive expansionism. He definitely makes very clear that there may be alarmist that would not agree with him, especially since Nazism is not the most favored political principles anyone would want to be compared to. Wolin feels although they share similarities, their methods are upside down. He uses very good examples like the streets in Germany dominated by totalitarian-orientated gangs and whatever there was of democracy was confined to the government before the Nazi's took over. In U.S. the streets is where democracy lives most and the real danger lies with an unbridled government.
I chose this quote because of all that is going on with the U.S. government today. Just last week we had a government shut down. The past two years have really been a real roller coaster and quite frankly unsteady. The government is suppose to have checks and balances but the people in office are really making irrational decisions that are affecting people in general. It's almost as though we are being governed by machine politicians and their interest outweighs democracy.
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