Palin: 'Rise up and and tear down this tyrannical system'

[L9teen]

This is a serious post. 

[INVAR]

This is a serious post.  I understand the incomprehensible horrors of Nazi Germany have no parallel to the current political machinations in the US, but your drawing attention to 1932 Germany might.  I recently read In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson.  It is set in 1933 Germany with the appointment of William Dodd to Ambassador in Berlin by FDR.  Meticulously researched, it is a frightening look at how a guy like Hitler can come into power while everyone simply watches.  What enabled Hitler as much as anything was the stridency of his supporters.  I'm not saying we are there today, but we little realize how fragile our existence can be. 

It is a good read.  I recommend it.

It's why I said what I did.

We're fools to think that cannot happen here, or even that it is not happening right now under our very noses.

It just has a slightly different flavor given our history and culture - but the ideologies and tactics are exactly the same, and there is nothing new under the sun and human nature does not change.

[geronl]

I think after today's meetings with GOP lawmakers that we are going to see a lot more thousand yard stares as they come out to rah-rah their "man" at the top of the ticket.

They now know the doomage that is coming.

[Smokin Joe]

Back on topic children.

Anyone having that disconcerting feeling when you watch that …. whatever that self-absorbed miasma of incoherence of Trump's last night was, combined with declarations of being called a traitor by his Spokesimbecile and tossing down the gauntlet of 'Either you are with us or against us', that we're witnessing shades of 1922 Italy or 1932-33 Germany???

I do.

This is how despotic regimes are born.

I have been seeing that for months. Said so on TOS, said so when I first got here, and was admonished for making references to a particular German political party of that era.

It is a combination of things, though, the man is the seed for such a thing. If the political ground isn't fertile or the solution supersaturated, it won't happen, but in this case, there is fertile ground for such, watered by the sweat and tears of frustration with those who are supposed to be doing the job they were sent to do.

[Cripplecreek]

I have been seeing that for months. Said so on TOS, said so when I first got here, and was admonished for making references to a particular German political party of that era.

It is a combination of things, though, the man is the seed for such a thing. If the political ground isn't fertile or the solution supersaturated, it won't happen, but in this case, there is fertile ground for such, watered by the sweat and tears of frustration with those who are supposed to be doing the job they were sent to do.

Hitler was nothing special till a bunch of desperate morons threw a tantrum and put him in power.

[Silver Pines]

This is a serious post.  I understand the incomprehensible horrors of Nazi Germany have no parallel to the current political machinations in the US, but your drawing attention to 1932 Germany might.  I recently read In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson.  It is set in 1933 Germany with the appointment of William Dodd to Ambassador in Berlin by FDR.  Meticulously researched, it is a frightening look at how a guy like Hitler can come into power while everyone simply watches.  What enabled Hitler as much as anything was the stridency of his supporters.  I'm not saying we are there today, but we little realize how fragile our existence can be. 

It is a good read.  I recommend it.

@Lando Lincoln

I've been meaning to read that one but it keeps slipping my mind.  Thanks for the recommendation.