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In reply to the discussion: Millions want the Nazi-loving prick back in the White House. WTF happened to America? [View all]soldierant
(9,360 posts)But what you missed was all the Fascists who were in the United States before and during WWII. Including people in Congress I had not been born - maybe you hadn't either - but only after the war was over and the pictures of the concentration camps came out did Americans really believe how bad the Fascists were. And despite the best efforts of people who know better, much of that has been forgotten.
If you listen to Rachel Maddow's "Ultra"* you will begin to get an idea how much America today is like America in the 1930s. And you may deduce, as I have, that there always have been, and always will be, Nazis at heart and potential Nazis among us Some of it no doubt is education - both educating in the home growing up, as well as education in the schools, and add to that education from the media (which we did have but Reagan destroyed.) But not all. Some people are just born hateful - or maybe fearful, the kind of fear that leads to hate. To turn them around requires something like a "Road to Damascus" experience. And those are scarce as hen's teeth.
Bottom lne: there will always be Nazis.
* https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra