Okay, I appreciate everyone's views on this, and I get where you're coming from.

Think about this. Erwin Rommel was a Nazi Party member. He was also a superb commanding officer, and was so respected by the British that it can truly be said they had an affection for him. (they also send commandos to try to assassinate him once...but failed...it was war, and they were trying to eliminate a particularly clever opponent).

Well, I don't get the impression that Mr Rommel ever had his mind on "exterminating an entire race of people". I don't think a lot of soldiers and other people who were technically members of the Nazi Party in the 30's and 40's had their minds on that, nor did a great many of them know that it was happening until very late on (if at all), because their minds were fully occupied with the more immediate concerns of the day...such as...doing their job, fighting at the front, their family...the things that ALL of us are normally concerned with.

How many Republicans are consciously aware of the death squads that the USA has funded to kill people in Latin America (and it happens every day)? How many Republicans were consciously aware of the abuse and killing of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq when it was happening? How many Republicans would have enthusiastically supported such actions, had they been fully aware of the human circumstances and what would happen to people's lives?

Are all Republican Party members "filth" because those things happened (and continue to happen) under the auspices of a Republican administration?

Obviously not.

That is my point.

I regard Nazi philosophy as an utter abberation. That does not change the fact that when a political party is in power of a great nation, that millions of normal people will serve it in an unthinking and basically pretty innocent manner, not knowing that they are supporting a great evil, but believing fervently that they are supporting a great good. It has happened that way before, and it will again.