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re: GA Governor endorses adding photo ID requirements

Posted on 1/13/21 at 5:55 am to
Posted by Gtmodawg
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Posted on 1/13/21 at 5:55 am to
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america right now is almost a mirror image of 1930s germany


It ain't even close. Just the fact that the United States isn't 15 years removed from being routed in a war we started by attacking a neighbor in a fit of nationalist fervor for expansion and told by the victors in that same war that we broke it now we had to pay for it makes the analogy fatally flawed.

There are some things about the US today which were true in Germany in the 1930's. For years leading up to the Fascist takeover in Germany the German right had fought against leftist policies in Germany which created the most progressive nation on earth at the time and an economic powerhouse the likes of which had rarely been seen. When the bill for WW1 was presented to Germany for their arrogance and nationalism the people of Germany saw the progress they had made for years prior to WW1 stripped from them and were open to the idea that "those other people" were making victims of them. They were open to lies and disinformation because they had enjoyed a very progressive lifestyle in their lifetimes and were no longer....since there was no way they could be responsible for this themselves they came to the conclusion it was "them" who had caused all of the problems.

We are in the same boat in the US. White people in this country enjoyed a helluva ride in the era between the end of WW2 and the mid 60's. Then we decided it would be a good idea to send working class sons to SE Asia and wage a police action we were never committed to winning. We also engaged in a cold war with Russia at this time out of necessity. As we did these things the rest of the world began to recover from WW2, mostly on our dime...we rebuilt German and Japanese manufacturing and kept the world safe for their shipping their products all over the globe....but we forgot that American workers existed at all. In the 1980s we bought a bill of goods which has always been well known to be based in a fallacy but we wanted to believe in some economic miracle which would slow the decline of the working class in the US. When it became blatantly obvious the miracle many knew would never materialize was not going to materialize we started looking for answers and the worst among us blamed "them"...immigrants, minorities....when in fact it was our buying into trickle down economics, allowing US companies to save money which was invested overseas while we increase military spending to mitigate the risk of doing so. Meanwhile US workers were, accustomed to a steady income sufficient to live a damned fine life, felt the economic pinch which required 2 incomes...leading to all manner of ill shite socially. We the people then fell into the trap of cheap money and got ourselves into financial slavery to live the American dream. When this idiocy crashed we blamed "them" and a leader emerged who would indeed tell us it was "them" and not our own greed and ignorance.

The only correlation between the rise of Hitler and Trump that is similar is a population accustomed to living well suddenly finding themselves not doing so as easily and a charismatic leader coming along and blaming it on "them".
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