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COVxy posted...

I think if a party goes full fascist, genocide and all, and half of America still show them steadfast support, then there is something fundamentally wrong. Like, at least in Germany there was a complete economic collapse so you could maybe understand the desperation of the populus. Here, there's nothing. Just calls for more equity. That is the crisis that is pushing half of America toward open fascism.

To be fair, the Nazis, at the time when there were still elections, never achieved more than 37% of the vote. They only came to power through parliamentary fuckery. They formed a coalition with traditional German conservatives who would preferred the Nazis over social democrats and thought that they could control the Nazis. The Nazis outplayed them and destroyed them, then did away with elections because all of the mechanisms of governance required everyone to be acting in good faith and the Nazis weren't.

All of these conservatives in the US who are willing to back the fascists in the GOP because they want power over their enemies are no different than the conservatives in Weimar. At the end of the day they'll get the same treatment as well.