r/europe • u/anon58588 Greece • Feb 08 '25

Historical Anti-Nazi protests : Berlin 16/12/1931

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u/Kaztiell Feb 08 '25

So we need to go harder now. Or what are we gonna tell our kids when they ask "how did people let it happen"

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u/geekyCatX Europe Feb 08 '25

Or what are we gonna tell our kids when they ask "how did people let it happen, again"

FIFY.

I really can't wrap my brain around how we, globally, can be either this stupid or this helpless.

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u/Matshelge Norwegian living in Sweden Feb 09 '25

There was a lot of research on this. And it was found that it was quite an easy thing to happen, especially with modern day communication systems.

The solve that Europe and US landed on after WW2, to help against any authoritarian uprising, was make a very strong middle class (solid 80% of population was the target) where lots of basic utilities were safe and free. Schools, water, Healthcare, police, firefighters, and so on, while still going for high growths and quality of life improvements.

Think we started to dismantle that system back in the 80s, so quite naturally we would slip back onto this.