What concerns me is that this long rightward swing is happening in the absence of any serious crises.
When the OG Nazis came to power, Germany was in terrible shape. They had lost a catastrophic war and were still being ground under the victors' boot heels, at least in the citizenry's own estimation. Never mind 12% inflation, it went as high as 12 digits in the years leading up to 1933. It's hard to blame them for latching onto someone promising to "Make Germany Great Again," and it's not surprising that they didn't feel an incentive to quibble over the details.
In the past election, US voters treated the price of eggs as an emergency of similar scope. That's about all that was going on. Eggs. Eggs were too expensive. They're even more expensive now, of course, but try telling Fox News addicts that. Can you imagine what things would be like in America -- the quality of the leaders we'd be electing -- if we were facing what Germany faced in the 1930s?
basementcat|1 year ago
CamperBob2|1 year ago
When the OG Nazis came to power, Germany was in terrible shape. They had lost a catastrophic war and were still being ground under the victors' boot heels, at least in the citizenry's own estimation. Never mind 12% inflation, it went as high as 12 digits in the years leading up to 1933. It's hard to blame them for latching onto someone promising to "Make Germany Great Again," and it's not surprising that they didn't feel an incentive to quibble over the details.
In the past election, US voters treated the price of eggs as an emergency of similar scope. That's about all that was going on. Eggs. Eggs were too expensive. They're even more expensive now, of course, but try telling Fox News addicts that. Can you imagine what things would be like in America -- the quality of the leaders we'd be electing -- if we were facing what Germany faced in the 1930s?