Remember when people used to have academic discussions about how Hitler happened and what was wrong with the Germans that they let it happen? This new interactive education makes it all so much more clear.
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Not to diminish the discussions about what happened in Germany,but in the 1950's Nikita Krushchnev said Russia would not have to go to war with America, they would destroy us from within. And here we are.....We were warned.
How could Germans have let that happen say the Americans that voted for an overt fascist? The majority of white Americans are fascists and they are very willing to support atrocities. America really needs to wake up to that fact.
Nope, not a majority. Only 46% of those who voted. About 1/4 of possible American voters sat out this election. Trump won by less than 1% and it was the third tightest race in US history.
I passed the course and understood without the need for live interaction. I have to go through this part of the course because half the country didn’t do the reading. Such bullshit!
40 percent of any population are evil psychopaths and it only takes some drama to get the 11 percent in the middle to join them and then you hide in the attic.
This "new interactive education" feels as sadistic as all my chem labs - where all the results had to be accurate to the 4th decimal place - but - all the burettes had chipped tips.
Frighteningly clear. We are watching history repeat itself. And the scapegoats will begin with Black/brown immigrants, as Hitler and the Nazis blamed the Jews. 😞
Part of the issue is history. Who knows how many Germans resisted in some way or another or what they really thought? History whitewashes over all of that and turns the entire populace into a goose-stepping unified front. And that’s just not true.
There sure was resistance in Germany from 1933 to 1945; however, a majority of the people was willing to look the other way. Propaganda did the rest. To this day you will hear the tales of “it wasn't all bad during that time.”
True, there’s that too. People think that if they’re good little church mice and don’t make a sociopath angry, everything will be ok. But sociopaths like Hitler or Donald get angry at everything and they get angry at nothing. There’s no point in looking the other way.
I agree with you on there being no point in looking the other way. The unsettling part to me has always been how fondly(!) some older German people talked of the times where “nobody would have dared talk or behave like that back then.” I am German-born and raised. It left me stunned more than once.
Sadly, this is very true. We have to find ways to meaningfully speak up and engage with each other. I am not sure what that might look like yet. That said, we have to try for our own sake.
The public’s perception of the idea of democracy and the way it unfolded during the Weimar Republic was that of chaos and dysfunction. Also, the Nazis never won an election but were granted the chancellorship because conservatives felt Hitler could be controlled and reined in.
Hence, the (untrue) rhetoric about how horrible everything is - crime, inflation, immigrants taking our jobs, “American carnage” - endlessly amplified by the right and, unfortunately, the media.
“The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; …”
“…never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”
Only six weeks after becoming chancellor, he used the Reichstag fire to imposed draconian measures by executive order to, in propaganda speak, bring back and law and order, which was considered a power move but not necessarily an unwelcome one.
The similarities between late 1930s Germany and now are striking with the isolationism, demonization of a people and ethnic group or political group, giving the faithful and enemy to hate to bring them together around a rallying cry.
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Hungary,
Slovakia,
USA,
soon Romania
France,
Germany,
Spain,
...
- we wait too long
- we think normal works
- we can be bought
I suggest
- attack Putin - enough already
- let Ukraine complete their fight
- we deal with Trump and traitors
Why delay WWIII - call the bluff now
Trump will do shit
Note how quickly the disaster stopped as soon as Hitler died!!
Take Putin out
The rest crumbles
Can we end the simulation now? I want to go home.
Part of the issue is history. Who knows how many Germans resisted in some way or another or what they really thought? History whitewashes over all of that and turns the entire populace into a goose-stepping unified front. And that’s just not true.
Combine this with a pro-Trump corporate media system that isn’t giving us the truth anymore, and it’s even more of a mess.
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; …”
This is MAGA in a nutshell.