Politically, divisiveness is continually reaching new heights. Politicians, republicans for the most part, are more reactionary and less productive. They are now fueling the fear and anger of their constituents and it won’t end well.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The US right now looks like Germany just before they put the Nazi party in power.

Lots of FUD, angry constituents, a faschism-adjacent party on the ballots, and lots of hate.

[–] Patches 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Edited: I wrote a bunch of stuff that my American grade education taught me about Nazi Germany but it was wrong.

Like how Nazi Germany was very one minded - it wasnt. The Nazi party at best represented 33-39% before they stopped counting.

Or that the population they targeted was more or less numerous. Trans people are < 1% of the population. The Jewish population was right around . 79% by best estimate prior to becoming in very real danger.

See https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3905112-contemporary-america-is-modeling-the-worst-of-depression-era-germany/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Great article, thank you!

There's unfortunately a lot to compare with the two parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The Nazis achieved 44% of the vote, and they weren't the only fascist party. Another achieved 8%.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Too many people are too comfortable to ever get off their asses to do anything more than bitch about it online. It's a very small percentage of people that actually go to rallies and half of those people are middle class white people that have never known real hardship; the kind of people that are surprised when they get pepper sprayed while trying to break into the capitol. There won't be a civil war, but we're definitely on the brink of single party rule.

We're like a bunch of frogs sitting in water that is being slowly brought to a boil, but except for water it's fascism and half the country is okay with it because they think they are "saving the children." The other half think they can stop it. I think that both sides might be delusional.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

It’s hard to do more when we're working ourselves to death just to afford basic necessities. That tipping point gets closer and closer though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And how many of frogs are there that just simply don’t care what happens?