Tom Perkins’s Unhinged Nazi Rant

Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s stipulate one thing upfront:Comparing your problem to the Holocaust is always a bad idea.There was only one, and nothing happening in the U.S. today iscomparable to it.

Tom Perkins, a founder of the venture-capital companyKleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has managed to intensify theillogic of this category error in a way that almost defiesbelief. In a three-paragraph letter published Saturday in theWall Street Journal, Perkins lamented that progressive angertoward the rich -- as expressed by the Occupy movement and inprotests against Google Inc.’s private buses for employees --was analogous to Nazi persecution of Jews.