What was Germany like just before the Nazis consolidated power?
That isn’t a question we have to wonder about because we are living it. And while I’m familiar with Godwin’s law, the types of stories breaking in the past week point to the fact that Trump is working on holding onto power at any cost.
Natural born citizens are having passport applications denied because that belong to a certain scapegoated minority group.
A paramilitary law enforcement agency operates above the law
General lawlessness is tolerated as long as it promotes the goals of the rising regime.
The formal “opposition” is unwilling to accept the scope of the emergency.
A cult of personality continues growing around a leader who demands that followers first loyalty is to him and not the country.
Don’t forget about the lessons we were supposed to learn from WWI: maniacal nationalism, ethnic and economic exploitation, militarism, and international economic conflict are the tools used by sociopathic demagogues and oligarchs to gain and maintain power. Happy Friday!
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I’ll repost the FDR quote here since it’s apt:
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15314
REQUIRES THE OVERTHROW of this kind of power.
Dictatorship by mob-rule and the OVER-PRIVILEGED alike.
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Same shit different suits.