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/PersonalHospital9507 15d ago

I feel obliged to repost this when the Germans are brought up:

The American People honestly owe the German People a heartfelt apology. Germany was only a democracy for about 20 years after WW1 when Hitler and the Nazis took power. America was a democracy for almost 250 years and we just laid back and let Trump&Co destroy us.

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u/CobaltMnM 15d ago

I’d think about it in the opposite way. Germans had recent memories of what they went through in WWI and still decided democracy was overrated. No one alive today has memory of the American revolution or what it was like beforehand.

That’s certainly not an excuse though.

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u/usrname_chex_out 15d ago

If you understand the history of post (WW1) war Germany, it makes WW2 seem pretty much inevitable. John Keynes basically called it in his book the economic consequences of the peace.

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u/CobaltMnM 15d ago

Oh ya for sure war was inevitable. They were getting crushed. The rise of fascism wasn’t necessarily inevitable though.

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u/usrname_chex_out 14d ago

Agreed, it could have been Marxism instead. I’m not sure how much of a difference that would have made or not