See Them Get Comfy with Evil

Were they to discuss Communism in these terms, there would be no anger at all.

An Austrian Legislator points out the “good side of Nazism”.

An far-right deputy recently elected to the Austrian Parliament underlined the “good side” of Nazism on national television. His remarks caused a wave of indignation in the political community.

“Of course the Nazis had a good side, we just don’t want to notice it these days”, declared elected official Wolfgang Zanger, during a broadcast on Tuesday evening. He said that Adolf Hitler “had given hope to people” and in particular built Autobahns.

The remarks were considered “scandalous” by the secretary general of the ÖVP party, and “unacceptable” by President of the Parliament Barbara Prammer (SPÖ). The Greens demanded Zanger’s resignation.

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Mr. Zanger’s remarks emerge after previous controversies involving several pro-Nazi members of Parliament in Austria. FPÖ senator, John Gudenus, had been forced to resign in April 2005 after having questioned the existence of gas chambers.

That any of this is even an issue after more than half a century is laughable. The goal is clearly for people to psyche their way out of facing the notion of good and bad itself. 20 years ago it was relativism, and while it did manage to leave its’ stain on the public mind, now it seems that more and more often the evidence of evil is being denied.

It takes a certain state of stupidity for anyone to believe that humans aren’t fallible, and it always seems to start with people not thinking that there is anything larger in the world that themselves – not their society, nor a higher power, nor even their neighbors, but themselves.