No, you're not crazy....but they want to convince you that you're crazy for not wanting things to suck ass. Makes it easier to just accept the status quo (or make it even shittier)
"I feel validated". Kamala just took him to task for everything I've been thinking and worrying about. It was just damned good to see him get called out like that.
If you read up on history, you’ll see even more parallels to Mussolini’s Italy in the 1920s and ‘30s. But the idea (and propaganda) are very much the same (think “Jews kills your children” and “Illegal immigrants get gender surgery and eat your pets”).
He's trying to go Nazi-lite and it's really not working because his goons are not bitter and resentful off the back of WW1 and war reparations. We're not as hesitant towards conflict in the same ways Germany post-WW1, so more people are willing to talk tough. However, without conflict experience, they lack the trauma to push them over the edge easily. Only after 4 years did they cross the line and it resulted in a lot less conflict than expected, but a single death spooked the shit out of them.
It's a good thing Trump was 20-30 years younger or we'd be so fucked.
i would like to point out the popular Q anon ideology that influenced the insurrection and a lot of the stochastic terrorism in the past decade is that "elites" are abducting and torturing babies to harvest "adrenochrome" from their blood. this is literally just the blood libel, except they're using dogwhistles for "jews".
there's another idea which is frequently overlooked, because quite frankly too much of america agreed with it, which is the "marxist" conspiracy theory. we were not taught in schools that the nazis were anti-marxist first -- we were all taught modified versions of the poem, "first they came for the marxists". but if you actually sit down and read mein kampf it's "marxists this" and "marxists that" -- obviously as a jewish conspiracy to degrade german national heritage and culture. but you hear this same idea in guys like jordan peterson. he's not talk about an economic theory. and you heard in the debate, when trump called kamala and her father marxists.
It became quick when trump was the first one to give them permission to say aloud what they had always thought privately, thus the sweeping of the old guard GOP politicians into the dust bin in one election.
A line from the movie Judgment At Nuremberg, "The ritual begun in this courtroom swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease. What was going to be a "passing phase" had become the way of life."
The Jews (illegal immigrants) are eating your cats and dogs in the streets!
/s obviously
But if you actually hear translated scripts from Hilter, they are powerful and articulated speeches. Obviously terrible and terrifying messages.
Trump is just a complete moron and a mess. I don't know if they would be more rabid or less rabid if they actually had a competent leader on their side. At least with Hitler, I get it. He has plans, lays out those plans. Trump? He has a concept of the plan, and the Republican party cheers for having a concept of a plan.
God damn wild. I'd say they are more radicalized than the Nazi's.
so, there's definitely some antisemitism deep down in these movements, because i think all bad ideas roll downhill into antisemitism.
but it's not clear that they actually literally mean "jews" there. i think they're more concerned with hispanic and black people. it's just the same rhetoric that was weaponized against the jews in germany.
now, the "elites" and "globalists" and "marxists" etc, that's "jews". the people repeating these claims may sometimes be ignorant of it, but that's what it is.
I should have been more clear. The point of it is that you can just substitute illegal immigrants for Jews in and it would be pretty on par with Hitler's rhetoric.
a lot of it you don't even have to substitute. hitler also ranted a lot about marxism (which he believed was a jewish conspiracy). conservatives today are still ranting about marxism, and in exactly the same ways.
Yeah I mean for Germany is was less than a decade and it went from "meh I guess they're a bunch of angry people" to "oh fuck they're actually killing everyone".
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u/fivefingerseeingthis 6d ago
Sometimes I wonder how people followed hitler. Then I see MAGA and I don’t wonder anymore