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And yet you fail to see the parallels between Trump's rhetoric (one of Hitler's first campaign promises was to build a wall around Germany to keep the job stealing immigrants out), his and his party's stated goals, even his failed coup attempt (the Beer Hall Putsch sound familiar?), and the rise of Hitler's Nazi party. Even the phrase "Make America Great Again" was used by a pro-Nazi American political group during the onset of WW2, who only disbanded after Pearl Harbor because it united the aggression of all sides of the political spectrum in the US.
Your argument basically boils down to "They're not oligarchs unless they come from the oligarchy region of Russia. Otherwise, they're "sparkling billionaires.""
You majored in this in college, while I've learned much of the finer details of the Nazi party because of Republican policies in the past decade. If it steps like a goose, Sig Heils like a goose, and quacks about the purity of Aryan blood, I'm sure as hell not calling it a duck because it's an American goose and not a German one of 1910s breeding stock.
And even in that metaphor, you could argue a direct lineage between the MAGA party and the Nazi party because the incoming president is the son of a real estate tycoon who was a German immigrant whose previous business was refining jet fuel for the Third Reich's Me-262 Schwalbes produced by Messerschmitt.
Yes, I see the parallels. It's a question of degree and context. Your average MAGA hat wearer is comparable to a Nazi in the same way that your average American "democratic socialist" who cheers on the murder of a CEO is comparable to a Stalinist. Both of them are reckless fools before they're actual Nazis and communists. If either of them got their way, bad things would happen which would surprise them as much as anyone else. I think we would do well to turn down the temperature a bit and try to understand each other rather than throw around these big insulting words that clearly we don't really understand.
Your analogy is actually very apt because at the height of their power, the Nazi party made up a whopping 15% of the German population, IIRC.
It doesn't take a lot of crazies to end with a death count for a minority group so high that they only passed their pre-WW2 population levels about 15 years ago. It merely takes the indifference or implicit support of the majority. So many Americans are either one issue voters or indifferent because their rights aren't up for debate every 4 years that the political compass has swung so extreme that in the first 6 months of (I think) 2022, there were more anti-trans bills proposed than there were days in the year at that point. I did the math, and it came out to roughly 1.2 anti-trans bills per day. The Nazis didn't start with the gas chambers. They started with prisons and internment camps for political prisoners, LGBT people, immigrants, and anyone else they deemed "undesirable," inspired by America's treatment of the indigenous peoples.
If we're willing to call the people of Germany in WW2 Nazis or Nazi sympathizers, then we can call the "I'm a Republican, I vote for the nominee" crowd that I've known my entire life and the indifferent silent majority Nazi sympathizers as well, and the MAGA crowd that call for banning trans people from public spaces and to deport immigrants Nazis. They hold the same values about fascism and white supremacy, and many even wear the same outfits and fly the same flags as Nazi Germany. They've been marching in the streets since Trump's first campaign. And we haven't even talked about the white supremacist terrorist groups and militias. The FBI spends more than 50% of their time putting down white supremacist groups.
We have been marching down the exact same path as 1910s Germany for years, and we need to call it out. Even Hitler referred to the US as the sisterland across the ocean who shared his values in Mein Kampf. In any other country, the KKK would be considered a terrorist group. Here, they're a political activist group who almost got one of their leaders elected to a fairly major government position.
The Democrats have spent 50 years "reaching across the aisle." How'd that go for them in this past election? The country seems to have slipped ever further towards a Fourth Reich to me. When Republicans came out in support of Harris in swing states, she lost a large percentage of independent voters in those states - like 5% of the total voters in each state. There's no understanding to be had with white supremacists and fascists. All they want is for people like me to die.
wow equating Nazis with communists - now there’s a false equivalence
what a great way to turn down the temperature! being condescending… good work bud
perhaps take a look at the comment votes once in a while and do some self-reflection on your communication style, if not the correctness of your statements and either say: sorry, i’m clearly miscommunicating, or sorry you’re right
So, it turns out there are people here who believe that comment votes somehow track truth, or at least something other than the prejudices and confirmation bias of those doing the voting.
The naivety is sad enough (internet forums have existed for 30 years - have we learned nothing?). But it's worse than that, because it suggests that you would put aside your reasoned views, your values even, in order to fit in with whatever the mob around you thinks. No democracy can work if everyone does this. Let's hope you're an exception.
Apologies for the condescension but there was no alternative here.