Yes, we'd be so much better off if Hitler were around today

Rich or poor, successful or failed, stupidity and ignorance know no bounds. In this case, we see the EPIC FAIL of a very rich man who has enjoyed the fruits of freedom but doesn't seem to have paid very much attention to reality some decades ago.

Bernie Ecclestone, the man who controls Formula One auto racing, said Friday that he preferred totalitarian regimes to democracies and praised Adolf Hitler for his ability to "get things done."

In an outspoken interview with The Times of London, the 78-year-old British billionaire chastised contemporary politicians for their weaknesses and extolled the virtues of strong leadership.

Ecclestone said: "In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done.

"In the end he got lost, so he wasn't a very good dictator because either he had all these things and knew what was going on and insisted, or he just went along with it ... so either way he wasn't a dictator." He also criticized democracy, claiming that "it hasn't done a lot of good for many countries — including this one [Britain]."

Hiter wasn't a victim, he didn't get misled or go along with anything. He was the driving force, the prime motivator. If you have "no idea whether he wanted" to do the things he did, then you must be either ignorant of history or willfully deceiving yourself.

Gee, I almost feel stupid for having to point that out.