Germans have actually had to live through totalitarianism -- a good number of them as recently as 1989. There is still institutional memory of it.
We've never dealt with such a thing, as a nation. So we're complacent. Until now.
We've never dealt with such a thing, as a nation. So we're complacent. Until now.
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Americans are also subjected to non stop capitalist propaganda which makes people apathetic.
Jim Crow as well.
But we've never had universal, broad-based tyranny at the level of Hitler or Stalin or Mao or Pinochet.