[Alberta's Child]

PB is right on target.

If you look at the United States today and compare it with the world of 1938, you'll find that we have more in common with Nazi Germany of that era than we have in common with the United States. The fact that this is so does not surprise me -- what baffles the sh!t out of me is the number of people who don't seem too concerned about it.

[little jeremiah]

Just as it baffles (some of) us now, when reading about pre-war Germany, that so many allowed Hitler to come to power, listened rapt with awe at his speeches, and didn't protest his crimes.

People think it won't happen again.

Are people in general more moral, more courageous, more wise, more truthful, now?