The author is not wrong. It is EXACTLY like Germany.
What really, really boggles my mind are the elderly and Jewish people of all ages voting for 0. Not just elderly, but Christian elderly. What WERE they thinking? Many of them grew up during WWII, didn’t they hear their parents talking? Didn’t they pay attention? I can understand black people voting for him and wish I could be more happy for them, but they all chose a monster.
How could Obama’s presidency possibly help them?
I would not say exactly. There are, however, stunning parallels.
I understand how you feel on this, but know after 8 days of "what went wrong," I'm done Monday-morning-quarterbacking this and prepared to prepare.
In England, you can barely refer to Churchill any more in an ‘official’ curricular capacity, but one of his oft quoted observations is now upon us:
We are always one generation away from losing our freedoms.
If a generation forgets, then it pays the entire cost of relearning that lesson itself, which then kicks in another one of Churchill’s observations:
We should act now, while there are options, rather than wait until the weight of events are such that there are only two options - death or slavery.
Churchill’s final words upon his death bed:
“I’m tired of it all.”
I can’t imagine having to personally carry the weight of the certainty of the calamities of his age, upto and beyond the immediate problem of Hitler, and into the dithering that allowed Stalin into power.
Eisenhower will be looked upon as the worst president by generations a hundred years hence for not having the guts to crush Communism when he could have. Maybe apologists will be kinder to him, and say that nobody could have known about Uncle Joe, which would not be true. There were a whole bunch of dead White Russians that spoke of what was coming.