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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Just watched this amazing show on PBS called Rise of the Nazis - Politics that I taped the other day.
It’s weirdly scary how it reminds me of what’s going on in US politics right now. The political manoeuvring, the dissolution of the rule of law, the slow rise to power of extremists.
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Yep. People think that that we would never allow such an extremist group take root in North America and install a government. That the West has learned it's lesson we think.
However, the Nazis didn't show up on day one of 1933 as the extremists we associate with 1939-1945. They slowly but surely become evil incarnate by chipping away at rights and freedoms, and flouting laws and norms to eventually become what they become.
If Americans allow the Rs to continually chip away at norms, freedoms and laws, who knows what the next Trump will be like.