Reply #47: I know perfectly well how the Nazi Party got started and got into power.

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And I'm seeing the same pattern - the Nazis started off as two-bit thugs who tried getting power through low-level street violence.

That didn't work, but a few years later, the Great Depression hit, so they were able to ride that and get a minority in power.

They allied with other conservative parties, as well as the business big-wigs, got enough veto points in the Reichstag that they could block things like increasing funding for unemployment compensation, and held the country hostage to get things that they wanted. Sound familiar?

Through hostage-taking politics, and through the dumbfuckery of the previous leaders, Hitler got himself appointed as chancellor.

It's going pretty much according to the same gameplan the Republicans are using today. The only difference is that the GOP hasn't had the opportunity to start putting people in ovens yet... But they have the same psychology. They're always looking for groups to demonize. For the Nazis, it was the Jews. Today, the GOP can pick between Muslims, blacks, Latinos, Democrats... Give them enough power and they will start oppressing with physical force, maybe throwing people into camps...