Wit & Attitude Quote by Julius Streicher

Spite is doing the heavy lifting here: the sentence is engineered less to argue than to shame, daring the listener to prove they are not "foolish" by agreeing. Streicher frames America as "the land of presumed opportunity" not to debate its realities but to poison the phrase itself. "Presumed" is a small, corrosive word; it turns a widely admired national myth into a con job. The result is a rhetorical trap: if you think anything "good" can come from there, you're not just wrong, you're stupid.

The intent is unmistakably political. Streicher was not a neutral "soldier" offering a skeptical foreign-policy take; he was a leading Nazi propagandist and publisher of Der Stuermer, a man who specialized in turning contempt into mass instinct. Read in that context, "Europe" becomes code for an embattled, supposedly pure civilization, while "the land of opportunity" signals not just the United States but modernity's promises: pluralism, social mobility, liberal democracy, cosmopolitan culture. In Nazi rhetoric, those promises were treated as decadent illusions and, often, tethered to antisemitic conspiracy.

The subtext is defensive nationalism masquerading as clarity. By insisting that nothing good can arrive from abroad, Streicher rehearses the psychological posture that authoritarian movements need: seal the borders of the mind first, then the rest follows. It is less a prediction than a permission slip to reject outside influence, dismiss criticism, and recast isolation as intelligence.