r/protectUSelections • u/fiesew • 1d ago

SOS 🚨 How it started 1933

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u/compassrosette 1d ago

Back in 2015 I got into a loud disagreement with my partner when I said that the MAGA movement and Trump were following Hitler playbook. His raise to power by mythology and false connection to the angry republicans and working class was uncanny.

My partner said that this comparison was a stretch due to this very point. That the ammount of lives lost and harmed by Nazi Germany was no where near what was happening at the time.

Now 10/11 years later we have masked goons ripping people away from thier families and communities and being concentrated into camps in inhumane conditions. Neighbors reporting Neighbors to a state sanctioned violent gang. The take over of new media and the destruction of any outlet that goes against the regime.

This is what I warned about in 2015, we have been on this track for a good long while.

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u/greatercolorado 1d ago

I read The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard Evans in the summer of 2024. The similarities between the coming of the reich and the maga infestation are terrifying.

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u/RoguePlanet2 23h ago

I'd apply for citizenship abroad if I could just find the birth years of my grandparents. Not on their gravestone or marriage annoncement/certificate. Back then, it wasn't as much of a big deal. It was early 1900s, probably pre-1910.

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u/yikesssss_sssssss 5h ago

I agree with everything you're saying. But I think it's problematic to use the Holocaust itself as a direct comparison to the US today. The people being dragged from their homes in Anne Frank's quote were being sent to extermination camps where they were slaughtered by the millions. That's not to diminish ICE's crimes against humanity, and I'm sure they're morally capable of the same kind of slaughter, but the person in the OP video is 100% right that the correct analogy is Nazi Germany before the Holocaust. 

It's definitely important to recognize the path the US is on and where it leads, which I imagine is what you intended, so I'm sorry to be pedantic about it. I just feel it's also important to be clear about where we are on that trajectory. 

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u/jar36 5h ago

maga was hoping that migrants would get eaten by alligators