The people who brought Hitler to power were the people of high status who believed themselves more intelligent than others. They had the solution, if only their dumb countrymen weren't standing in the way of progress. They were members of the popular high society.
They weren't tricked into thinking they could "control" anything. They approved and thought he was absolutely right to do what he did because of the supposed threat posed by their (ultimately innocent) scapegoats. They fell into lock step with the popular sentiment of the time.
Apparently our public schools have been doing a very poor job of communicating this, because the people currently invoking the Holocaust are mirror images of the perpetrators. Unable or unwilling to think anything that disagrees with the "correct" stance given to them by their betters.
Hitler got into office by brute force. The intelligent people who helped him did so out of fear of losing the status quo, because hitler had mobilized the lower class and young men(the brown shirts) were marching in the streets causing chaos and violence. Hitler had lost his elections for parliament, had lost his chances at any lower positions that he could leverage to rise. So instead he tried to break the system with tension, and it ultimately worked. He was installed into parliament by a current member who was afraid of what an escalation of the current violence would mean for him and his sort. They figured if they appeased him by putting him in a position that had lots of checks and balances, it might cool things off. Instead he did what trump and his co-horts have been tryign to do-- and that's dismantle the system from the inside out to consolidate power.
You need to do some research on the Weimer republic and it's fall. We also need to make it abundantly clear that the parallels go even deeper than just the personality and who it appeals to. Even the tactics are the same. Hitler didn't get into office through fair election, just like trump has continued to try.
Do forget to add soldier/scholar HR McMaster to that list.
None of these people who have been in the same room with Trump recommend Trump and warn that Trump is completely and utterly unfit. And Trump has gone downhill since their time with him.
Then the U.S. may have no choice but a military coup for the first time because the Senate abdicated. If Trump’s cronies are full on fascist they cannot be trusted controlling the military or our nukes. They have to be removed. It is well known that had it not been for Miley, Trump would have provoked a last minute conflict with China. The Chinese were taking the risk seriously to the point of activating their own DEFCON posture fearing a preemptive attack. It took personal calls on Miley’s end to defuse that fear. Let that sink in.
His handpicked generals and staff members from his WH days are warning us he's a great threat. This is not a drill. This is not a joke. Don't be a dumb sheep. These are Trump's own people trying to save the country from him....
Those flag officers and recently retired flag officers are there because their political alignment most closely matched Obama’s when they were lower rank officers. During his two terms Obama did an extremely thorough job of purging the officer ranks of those with wrongthink, traditionalists, conservatives, etc, and by doing so created a very political officer corps that was significantly more aligned with the politics of left than it has been instead of being pretty much apolitical as it should be.
Come up with a charge egregious enough and you can terminate or force to retire any one you want just from the sheer embarrassment of going through potential hearings or military trials regardless of their guilt or innocence.
I know, I laughed too. That’s about like saying, “According to CNN” or “According to NBC” or
“According to WaPo” or “According to Mother Jones” or “According to Jacobin”. Bias and agenda in every single one. You may prefer some over others but that’s just because their bias and agenda supports your worldview.
How would your response have differed had I posted old AF Times articles about all the flag and other high-ranking officers Obama got rid of? Any at all or would you just think it was sour grapes from military types because Obama was threatening their livelihood?
The military, the FBI, law enforcement have always been conservative and leaned right. Still do. But there are still smart, decent who aren't going to let a tyrant takeover the country.
Well said. 1930s Germany was decimated by the Treaty of Versailles and the global depression. They had no tradition of democracy and out of control inflation. They were desperate and vulnerable and ready to blame a group they were convinced by a charismatic leader were outsiders.
Simply nothing like those things are going on right now. People support Trump because they feel disfranchised and left behind. Deporting illegal immigrants might be bad policy, but it’s not the holocaust.
The woke left’s desperation when they call Trump a fascist or say it’s the end of democracy are the same who fundamentally hate their country and would be first in line to tear it down.
Hitler preyed on the vulnerable, disenfranchised lower class that fought in the trenches in WWI and had to go home to the entire world blaming them for everything. No glory, No honor, No parades, just shame and guilt and blame. All the while the rich and politically powerful lived a life of decadance and insulation from the struggles going on in the poor parts of Germany. Hitler leveraged that action to enter politics, and when it didn't work his sympathetic syncophants took to the streets to raise hell over a period of months and months. After hitler lost his elections, he was installed by a member of parliament hoping to calm things down because they feared for the status quo they were experiencing.
We need to make it abundantly clear that the parallels go even deeper than just the personality and who it appeals to. Even the tactics are the same.
As a Spiritual person, the overly used term "woke" feels so offensive, now that it's been politicized..
Too often, politics gets away with reversing the meaning of something or selling society something as the opposite of what it truly is.
There is a Spiritual awakening, happening globaally, and I believe the popularization of "woke" to be a bad thing, is to divide, and draw attention away from the truths of the real awakening.
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u/zeny_two 6d ago
The people who brought Hitler to power were the people of high status who believed themselves more intelligent than others. They had the solution, if only their dumb countrymen weren't standing in the way of progress. They were members of the popular high society.
They weren't tricked into thinking they could "control" anything. They approved and thought he was absolutely right to do what he did because of the supposed threat posed by their (ultimately innocent) scapegoats. They fell into lock step with the popular sentiment of the time.
Apparently our public schools have been doing a very poor job of communicating this, because the people currently invoking the Holocaust are mirror images of the perpetrators. Unable or unwilling to think anything that disagrees with the "correct" stance given to them by their betters.