LMAO.
How true.
But Both are Evil.
Not to speak for samtheman but there has long been an effort to remind the public and people like us that while Nazi Germany was indeed a grave evil it didn’t spring up out of nowhere like some phantom or demon-seed.
Rather it was made step by step, often by ordinary (or ordinary-seeming) men who brought the movement and the nation with them, a bit at a time, speech at a time, law at a time, lurch at a time, into full-blown horror.
A philosopher named Hannah Arendt coined the phrase in a books she wrote about Eichmann back in the early 60s, I believe; and I think part of what she meant was that Eichmann and perhaps some of his compatriots weren’t anything special when you saw them alone, up close, without the vast machinery of Nazism around them.
They were small, dull, defeated, weak. They had wrought great evil but, in and of themselves, they were banal.
(We can see the same incremental damage being caused by the same kind of people—the Obamanation—around us now.)