Does anybody else sometimes feel like they're Living in Germany in the early 30s?

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56. I do live in Germany--just 90 years later.

There are subliminal reminders that this is the place where it all happened, but mostly reminders that the vast majority of the people want to make sure nothing of the sort ever happens again, and never gets the chance to.

German TV, in an effort to make sure "it" never happens again, runs constant documentaries about the era, the how and why it happened, and how horrible the result was. The highly organized politicized rallies of the Nazi era, and then their socialist successors in the East, are a thing of the past, as is any kind of organized government terror against any particular ethnic group. I don't see that in the USA--yet. Obviously our extremist right seems to idolize the extremist ideology of both Hitler's National Socialists and Stalin's Soviet Union, but they seem to idolize the theocracies of Iran and Afghanistan as well. They want the total victory of the control freak, as long as they are the ones controlling. Whatever excuse or label they use seems to be of secondary importance.