How would DU react to the 1930s and Hitler?

[freshwest]

59. Most Americans held that view until Pearl Harbor, then WTC. Excellent rant, though.

Uncertain where the nation will go with this. There's a certain amount of outrage but no real interest in the work that is required.

We are in no worse state than America was in the Thirties in some cases; in others, we are in a worse condition. The WW2 effort was built from using national resources that no longer exist.

Our population was largely rural and despite many people starving, there was more land and community to support those who had not been exiled to cities. In that respect, we are weak, as we are dependent upon the resources of other people and other nations.

We have more people, less natural resources and less unity. That is why Democratic politicans tread softly, because people will die. We are being torn apart and remade.

It's unknown what the end result will be. We are coming to terms with our past now, too. If those who will be in power in the coming days do not support an American role in the world, there will not be one. Although many do, as their opportunities were in military service.

There is little support for the federal government as in the days of FDR. It took respect for that institution to wage WW2. The cost was extremely high to all the Allies, but not the Axis powers:



Few see any value in what WW2 caused the Allies to create to prevent another war such as that which FDR organized Americans to stop. No one seems to know civics and how the federal or even local government works.

Obama is suggesting more of a policing action than anything else. But Americans don't know the difference between low level, limited action, the Iraq War or WW3. So they reject all of it.

If the news reported at DU is an honest reflection of American views, the USA will devolve into states, little Koch fiefdoms and there will be nothing to do about other powers that seek to do us harm. Instead we will be armed to the teeth against each other and the acts of other foreign entities will mean nothing next to what we will do to ourselves.

JMHO.