I’ve always been curious how fascism takes hold, and how people like Hitler, Stalin. etc rise to power. Do people not see what is happening? Shouldn’t hindsight, foresight and common sense kick in at some point? I used t think they were like mob bosses early on - anyone disagreeing with them ends up in a barrel, but surely were civilized and educated by now?
It seems the people don’t want to jeopardize their comfortable livelihoods and individual lives so expect the ‘powerful elected officials’ to do their bidding. After all, the public gave them the power to do just that. Otoh, the politicians don’t want to jeopardize their cushy jobs and accumulated power by challenging the majority, so are waiting for the public to start a jan6 situation so they can point and say, ‘see, the people are unhappy so we should act’.
It’s a shitstorm of no consequences and a man child hacking away at the country and no one seems to be doing anything meaningful. I’m literally watching fascism take place.
History/ psychology/ sociology majors care to chime in?
If you can’t distinguish the two sides of World War Two, it’s hard to know where to start. Maybe read an encyclopædia entry.
Two sides? There were many more.
Maybe he’s not done reading his encyclopedia.
Hitler had a paranoid belief that all Jews everywhere had a genetic imperative to subvert and destroy his Aryan race/civilisation, and that his destiny was to wipe them out and create an Aryan Reich.
Stalin smashed Hitler’s army. His ideology was Marxism-Leninism based on class analysis. I don’t get how you’re equating both sides.
All of this is probably true. But it’s not exactly fascism. It’s nationalism, and racism, and imperialism.
Now Usa for example have always had racism. And ever since they are one country, they have nationalism. And for a long time they have imperialism. But only recently fascism has started there.