History rarely repeats itself in the same exact way. There are always differences between times and places. But, the past is all we can know (those who bother to know it). So, we use certain name references from it and try to use what we learned.
Today in America, it is routine to call Trump a Nazi or fascist.
One of the things people didn't seem to learn about is fascism and how it happens. They think, I guess, if someone doesn't say, we like Hitler, they can't be fascist or a Nazi. Except Trump, of course. They have no problem making him an exception to everything. Anyway, most people I think have heard about fascism and Nazism, but they don't seem to have learned or remember how it started.
I am using, like everyone these days, the term fascist loosely. When I say fascist or fascism, I'm not just meaning the technical Italian movement or even Nazism. I'm talking about totalitarianism at its worst, and the use of force to seize political control, wipe out dissent and rule by obtaining power, often with a dominant ethnic or religious preference.
Until it just got too sickening to read about it anymore, I spent years studying pre-war Germany and why people followed Hitler. I see many of the same things happening now and the same blindness. The Nazis had to self-destruct eventually, with a lot of help from the Allies, because like most totalitarian countries, their system doesn't work. But it can last a long time, decades - centuries, and devastate a country or countries. Now, possibly, with the super-fast transportation and communication we have, maybe the world. We are facing it now, and no, it's not overly-dramatic to think so.
Here are some of the similarities I see. Again, not exactly, but similar:
The Big Lie: Hitler understood the bigger the lies, the more people would believe them. I'm repeatedly stunned how many educated people who watch CNN or MSNBC or read the NYTs really believe the things they do (generally, it's all Trump's fault and maybe no exceptional violence has happened on their side). They literally don't know - I mean literally - that thousands of people (more than usual) are being shot in the country, mostly minorities, due to lawlessness. I just did a post on the lies. Read it, as I won't repeat them here. Everything about this movement, whether you want to call it BLM or socialism or whatever you like, is based on lies.
Violence and threats of violence: The Nazis were street fighters, battling with the left-wing radicals. I'm not even taking sides. Both were awful. If the communists, who were Stalinists took power, who knows how bad it would have been. Maybe not, but maybe worse than the Nazis as Stalin and the Soviet Union lasted much longer and communism has been responsible for millions upon millions of unjustified deaths too. But, in Germany a lot of violence started with Hitler's brown shirts, his streetfighters, who bear a striking similarity to Antifa. It's a lie. There's nothing anti-fascist about them. They beat up people and have even murdered (barely covered by the media).
This violence is ongoing. Not only are people being killed/shot all over the country, but the threats from BLM/Antifa are ongoing too. See the few links I put at the bottom. No, the reporting can't always be from The Times or CNN, etc., because they literally don't want you to know. And my friends who limit themselves to that media, they literally don't know.
They felt they were victims fighting for their rights: That's what the Nazis said. They were sabotaged in WWI by the Jews and others. And the peace treaty was brutal and not fair (although I agree about that - so do many in the West). But, nothing justified what they did. Today BLM has used the big lie theory and successfully convinced perhaps a majority of Americans that they are being systematically deprived of rights, murdered and discriminated against when the laws in the U.S. actually prefer minorities and gives them many advantages. There aren't anti-discrimination laws against majorities and our law seems to accept the idea of benevolent discrimination - meaning, it favors those it wants to. Of course, we are a violent country and there are too many deaths in normal times. But, the narrative that police are looking to kill blacks or do it too easily is a lie. Police aren't perfect; they make mistakes. And there will always be prejudice. It has gotten so much better, it's almost unbelievable. Even Obama thought so. But, BLM would have you believe they are victims fighting for their lives. That's what they teach their poor kids too.
Take over the media: The Nazis long had their own media before taking power, but it was tiny. Prior to their 1933 takeover, they would sometimes do things like shut down a movie with smoke bombs or the like. And, when they took power, they got rid of all other media and, as you probably know, burned books. Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda was essentially in charge of all of it. Other political parties were outlawed, and the Nazis simply took over their presses and the independent ones. It did not happen overnight. The chancellor prior to Hitler notes in his memoirs, his own central party press organ wasn't taken over until 1938, just before the war, but, he had a lot of power and was on good terms with Herr Hitler, which kept him alive, but later regretted.
Here, the left has a running start, as most of the press seems like they want autocracy, just one they think is on their side. BLM and the left, in general, are trying to take it over right now. When you hear Kamala Harris demand that Twitter shut off Trump's account or Facebook takes down conservative ads and posts (or Twitter), it's the beginning. The brown shirts, Antifa, physically attack conservative speakers and the media often ignores it or gives it a pass. If this group gets power, I believe as soon as possible they will try to make any but their own rhetoric "hate speech," and therefore unprotected by the first amendment. It's actually already the case. Frankly, they will burn down CNN and MSNBC too if you cross them. And, of course, blame Trump for it.
Demonize someone or group: The Nazis had the Jews and communists, who they sometimes merged in their rhetoric. BLM and many of the new left seems to hate straight white males unless they are subservient. Sometimes they demonize white females too, who they mock as "Karens." But, most of all, they are just taught (including some very smart people) to say, reflexively, it's Trump's fault, or this is because of Trump's rhetoric, or the like. When they have a fact to give you about him, it's almost invariably not what happened or completely unfair. One young woman told me recently that Trump admitted what he did in Ukraine was wrong. It was completely false - the only quote from him by any witness was that he said he wanted no quid pro quo from Ukraine.
The New "Heil Hitler": You think they don't have theirs. Have you seen videos where they try to force people to say "Black Lives Matter." Sounds the same to me. Why? Not because they are saying "black lives matter," but because they are trying to force people to do it. They say "White Silence" is violence. Their excuse to be violent with you - actual violence. These are really, disgusting humans.
Render the police harmless: Not much of a problem in Nazi Germany. The Nazi police simply took over. You know, the SS, SA, SD and Gestapo, BLM and other gangs won't have it that easy, but have the same goal, make it so they have no opposition capable of violence to defeat them in their "revolution" (BLM's website's word). Now, in much of America, when the police just try to do their job, they are falsely accused of unwarranted violence or abuse and sometimes it is the police who get arrested (of course, sometimes it is true they are abusive). They try to, sometimes successfully, defund the police, and they attack them personally, physically assaulting them, trying to kill them, sometimes do kill them, give out their names and addresses, etc., to bring the fight to their homes. In the town of Rochester, NY, where most of the young fascists seem to be young white idiots, the City had to let the officers cover up their names, which the radicals were calling out for future harassment.
If they defang the police - you will be at their mercy, because they are angry, often hysterical with violence and much, much better organized and motivated than you and regular working or suburban folk. That's why they are already winning. So many police have retired early. Who do you think they will let replace them?
Violence and threat links:
Here are a few of the hundreds or could be thousands of similar articles in the last few months. To my friends on the left, I'm sorry if it hurt's your feelings, but this is your team, if you support this movement. Before you get angry, this is what they say and who they are:
They (hard to believe the unknown shooter - looks like a woman to me - wasn't a BLM supporter, but possible) shot two cops, then blocked the emergency room chanting "We hope they die." Does that sound like a random shooting or the Audubon Society? Amazing, their side claims white silence is violence, but saying We hope they die is just fine with them. https://justthenews.com/government/local/protestors-blocking-entry-and-exit-emergency-room-say-we-hope-they-die-after-two
This vicious, possibly psychotic young woman involved in these "peaceful" rallies, set five cop cars on fire to intimidate them from showing up where needed. https://whyy.org/articles/feds-use-internet-sleuthing-to-charge-philly-woman-with-arson-during-protests/
The "peaceful" BLM threatens to burn down a diamond district. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-protester-fox-news-interview-threat-burn-diamond-district-20200607-5wl7bc5y7zgnjefl6aq5qhbqtq-story.html
Thousands of phone threats made to a cop after one arrest at BLM rally. https://nypost.com/2020/07/14/threats-flood-nypd-lieutenants-phone-after-blm-rally-arrest/ Thousands of telephone calls. Yet people tell me it's not organized. It may not be centralized, that is, a central authority controlling it, but it is very organized, which is much easier with technological advances.
Another of "peaceful" BLM leader threatens to burn down WH. https://www.the-sun.com/news/1392855/blm-leader-threatens-burn-white-house-police-graves/
BLM leader in NY threatens to burn down the whole system - maybe literally, and declares Bronx for blacks. What does the whole system mean? I guess the city, your homes, whatever they feel they need to burn until you give. These really are the Nazi now. https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/nyc-black-lives-matter-leader-hawk-newsome-on-activism-gentrification/
A newspaper editor and BLM partisan threatens white women. Yes, she apologized, but how come people are fired for just saying "All Lives Matter," or people say, his/her opinion doesn't make me feel safe, and she was fired. Well, she worked for WAPO; so, it was nothing to see here - move along. https://nypost.com/2020/06/30/black-wapo-editor-claims-white-women-lucky-to-be-called-karen/
BLM threatens mayor unrest (in other words, more crimes even though hundreds more shot and killed in Chicago than usual) until they get their way. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/10/21362612/black-lives-matter-lori-lightfoot-police-shooting-englewood-looting
I could go on for a long time but the pace of the threats and violence would overcome my ability to keep up. I learned at the beginning of this craziness, you can't keep up unless you do nothing else. Of course, someone might respond - here's your team, and give you some examples of right-wing crazies. Here's the difference - whatever organization right-wing crazies might be from, I probably condemn them too. I probably never heard of them, and usually, there is no organization. Just some pathetic crazed loner. I'm not even a conservative. Never been, although now that they have mostly given up the anti-gay crusade, they have drifted more towards me, at least on some issues. That is, they are pro-enlightenment values, pro-free speech, pro-borders and pro-liberty with order.
The left is not very quick to condemn BLM. Amazingly, and I'm proud of Biden for at least this, although, realistically, he's probably just trying to get elected - he once condemned the violence and Antifa. But, he didn't condemn BLM and if elected, they will be a big part of his policy and administration. And if social justice becomes policy of the federal gov't, there will be no justice. Joe Biden has already said only whites can be racist and I've heard him say the words "White Men" like they were loathsome. Sounds like he is ready.
By the way, you want to think this is racist, go right ahead. It's nothing of the kind. Of course, black lives matter, because all lives do. And it seems there are more white people gone nuts with it than black people. Sometimes I think some blacks will get mad because whites have hijacked it.
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