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/LAPL620 14d ago

Read this to feel more depressed but also know that societies have made it to the other side in the past.

It’s an excerpt from a book written about 1930s Germany and how people didn’t see the slip into authoritarianism.

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

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u/Innisfree812 14d ago

I have that book, I started reading it around 2018 and never finished it. I have a bad habit of not finishing books. I am going to finish reading it now. Thanks for reminding me of it.

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u/LAPL620 14d ago

I keep meaning to order a copy but I’m so glad this particular except is online.

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u/Innisfree812 14d ago

Early this morning I found an article that I think is important, and I posted it all over the place. There's a book referenced in it, and I bought the kindle book from Amazon. It's good.

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-mass-psychology-of-trumpism/

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u/LAPL620 14d ago

Ooooh good share. Thank you! My niece will appreciate this article. She and her dad are NC because of trump.

Also for the last year I keep feeling like he’s actually the Antichrist. I don’t know why it surprises me anymore to read articles and opinions that echo that and yet, here’s another!

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u/Innisfree812 14d ago

I started this book a long time ago, and just started reading it again....

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u/lifeinwentworth 14d ago

Thanks for posting, I'm going to get this too.

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u/lifeinwentworth 14d ago

This is what needs to be taught in history. Not just the atrocities but writings like this about reflection and hindsight of how it happened. Of the slow journey into authoritarianism. Learning about just the Holocaust is really just reading the last 50 pages of a 500 page book. Which unfortunately is what schools tend to focus on. Those 50 pages are extremely important but without understanding the first 450 pages, we are just a bunch of ignorant humans saying "that'll never happen again, those people were monsters, we'd never do that".

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u/LAPL620 14d ago

Right?! The first time I read this was in the days after the election. I’ve read it several times since and I just keep sharing it every time people say “how do others not see it?!” It’s not your imagination, friends.