We seem to be in the same place Germany was in the waning days of the Weimar Republic.
Nope. More accurately about where the Judeans where shortly before they went into Babylonian captivity. At least the Germans were not slaves.
You said, “We seem to be in the same place Germany was in the waning days of the Weimar Republic”
Exactly! And the connection is the Frankfurt School, Dewey, and the turn-of-the-century Progressives such as Rockefeller, Ford, and Carnegie, whose money made it possible for the Frankfurt School to do to America what it had done to Weimar Germany.