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To: ChicagoConservative27
Welcome to the new and still-old rising fascism.

An excellent resource to see into this is "They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1933-45," by Milton Mayer, from which UChicago Press excerpts:

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing)."

But Then It Was Too Late

The book is highly recommended.

An additional comment: Like others, the National Socialists were "anti-capitalist," just like so many other political movements as we find today in universities, much of the Democrat Party and in some mainstream press.

13 posted on 12/07/2023 7:08:56 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Bkmk


23 posted on 12/07/2023 7:23:05 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (< < Wandering aimfully > >)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

What a timely passage!

I know if I were the owner of that establishment, I would FIRE those employees!


48 posted on 12/07/2023 8:42:34 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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