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Originally Posted by Chris M
The Declaration of Independence supports my claim on America's founding principles. Certain inalienable rights, not granted by rulers, but derived from our humanity. Those human rights aren't to be screwed with in theory.
As far as the supreme race talk. I can only chalk that up to something in your history, childhood likely, making it attractive to you to oddly insert that strange claim into the conversation.
Nazism puts the state/motherland first and the individual last. The supremacy of the individual turns that on its head. The smallest minority in the world is the individual.
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The founding of our country didn't begin with the Declaration of Independence. The direction of the country was set well before that, with the first arrival of Europeans in the Americas. When you elevate the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to God-like status, you forget about the millions of people who were deprived of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness throughout all of American history.
Do you think that Naziism was really about Hitler's love of the motherland? That's problematical because (1) he wasn't German and (2) he utterly and completely destroyed Germany. The motherland ideal wasn't about Germany at all, it was about the insanity of one individual, his hunger for power, and his diabolical ability to convince millions of people that they were a superior race. Naziism was a cult that put one individual first. The motherland and antisemitism were just handy tropes for promoting a dictator.