Hakenkreuzin'

A coworker who probably meant well trotted out that obnoxious comparison, Bush=Hitler in conversation today.
This is a dastardly canard IMHO....flinging it about always sounds foolish and overwrought. Yes, Bush has a contempt for due process and he is a callow power worshipping son of a bitch...but that doesn't make him a potential dictator by any means.
And besides, in a weird an unpleasant way it unconsciously reinforces the otherwise delusional conservative claim to strength by comparing their President to a genocidal world class dictator.
Moreover the Bush=Hitler thang is rhetoric straight out of the neocon playbook. Serious post-Trotsky neoconservatives are always equating all sorts of dubious phenomena to the Holocaust. From the Berlin Wall to trade policy these guys have been tracking it all back to the Nazi hakenkreuz one way or another for years.
I stand athwart the swastika and cry "ENOUGH"!
I for one do not wish to live in a republic where the words "Holocaust" or "Nazi" have become debased Orwellian terms that do naught but reinforce the speaker or writer's partisan agenda.