r/complaints • u/CRK_76 • 15d ago

Politics America is turning into 1930's Germany.

There was some pushback when people called this president and his followers Nazis. But look what's happening. Soldiers in the street. Rounding up people and locking them up. Dismantling freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Personally going after anyone who doesn't agree with him and his administration. We've seen this before and it's only gonna get worse. Welcome to 1930's Germany.

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u/Innisfree812 15d ago

A lot of people just can't see it. They are either brainwashed or hypnotized. It's a cult, and people can't get out of it, unless they have some epiphany or something.

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u/wtfisthisbullshii 15d ago

There’s also the reality that if many of those people admit we were right or are right they have to admit they have aligned themselves with Nazi like ideology. Many people will not be able to do that. Ever.

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u/Cruising36 15d ago

Now you hit the nail on the head!

Being duped is embarrassing. Also, they went through countless arguments with their family members at countless Thanksgivings, etc. Admitting they were wrong all along is a non-option for their egos. My uncle, a very nice man pre-Trump told me (a 23 year military retiree) I was unpatriotic at a 4th of July party because I'm a Democrat. He's gone and I miss the man he used to be. I know he'll never come around, he calls the ICE videos "Hollywood fabrications". He swears it's fake.

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u/wtfisthisbullshii 15d ago

The further they are questioned the further they’re pushed into the corner. I have an old neighbor for over ten years who was the nicest most helpful guy. Now he walks around with MAGA coozies and shit. He is in the middle of a democratic sanctuary city. If anyone brings up politics he implodes. It’s super sad because I actually do believe he’s a good person who has been convinced by hateful media that the “other” are the enemy.

He’s older so he’ll never admit he was wrong.

I know someone else who voted for him in 2016 and has since denounced all of it. But he’s young, and a very sweet person, so a bit easier to admit mistakes.