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In reply to the discussion: Twas a time when people wondered how an advanced nation like Germany allowed Hitler to become ruler [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)94. Thanks so much. I will check it out n/t
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Twas a time when people wondered how an advanced nation like Germany allowed Hitler to become ruler [View all]
Tom Rinaldo
Jan 2021
OP
Yep, I used to wonder exactly the same thing, and now we see how gullible and delusional people
RKP5637
Jan 2021
#5
The QAnon conspiracy theoies that tens of millions of Americans have swallowed whole
Tom Rinaldo
Jan 2021
#11
I agree it was decades in the making, but when Trump came into office it was on steroids.
Irish_Dem
Jan 2021
#54
Yeah, it's a kick in the pants. BUT the HOPE is in a DEMOCRACY we fight like hell to keep them OUT.
TigressDem
Jan 2021
#8
Remember that his first wife used to say he had two books on his night table on Hitler...
Frustratedlady
Jan 2021
#9
I had read that once too, and have thought about it often ... in may ways he was
RKP5637
Jan 2021
#31
That was something I always thought that it couldn't happen here. I thought it was part
doc03
Jan 2021
#12
There is that, but I still worry. The derplorables may want boring for a bit.
GoneOffShore
Jan 2021
#28
Yeah, that would be the closest analog to what you suggest for a domestic Marshall Plan
misanthrope
Jan 2021
#72
Economics is known as political economy, for the most part, in Europe, for a reason
bucolic_frolic
Jan 2021
#15
There can be no unity with lying, murderous fascists. Insurrection must have consequences.
dalton99a
Jan 2021
#16
I always knew it could happen here, people are people, once just didn't think it would.
Hortensis
Jan 2021
#23
If the right isn't severely punished for their insurrection, the next one by them will win.
lark
Jan 2021
#29
+1, they only needed one of the Molitov Cocktails to light up the whole capital and prevent the ...
uponit7771
Jan 2021
#75
Yep, same here. Guess we got a in real time history lesson in authoritarianism.
Jetheels
Jan 2021
#36
The Filibuster is a weapon of authoritarians. Causes Public distrust of Democracy
Tommymac
Jan 2021
#40
THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾, FAUX News like information is 100% dangerous and should be fact checked! People
uponit7771
Jan 2021
#43
I am watching again after many years Ken Burns The Civil War and it becomes clear that the former
Pepsidog
Jan 2021
#47
No I didn't mean secession. I am being petty and mean financial support. Blue states carrying red
Pepsidog
Jan 2021
#81
The combination of digital media and universal suffrage probably dooms democracy
Klaralven
Jan 2021
#48
Then that's why there should be a Fact Check Group or something close, the media must police them
uponit7771
Jan 2021
#76
And they brandish a copy of the constitution while they trample upon the real one
Tom Rinaldo
Jan 2021
#55
+1, and it wasn't the whole nation either. Hitler and the NAZI party had only 38% support at its ...
uponit7771
Jan 2021
#77
The West allowed Germany to become a place where someone like Hitler could make it to the top
DFW
Jan 2021
#66