“You need to remember the state of things. We were in a Depression. The way to the future seemed to be two paths: Communism or Fascism. If you didn’t like the Communists, then Fascism seemed to be the way to go.
I’m not saying it was right, just that is what choices some folks though we had.”
Two disagreements with this:
1. The left in america did not see either of these as an unpleasant choice. They were for the totalitarian solution, regardless whether there was a depression or not.
2. Actually, the left in America was good with either the communists or the national socialists. It wasn’t one or the other. Both were left wing totalitarian experiments that made the left feel all warm and fuzzy. That they liked the commies more than the fascists doesn’t mean they were agin’ the fascists. (That is, until Hitler turned on their dear old Uncle Joe Stalin. Then fascism was chopped liver so far as the US left was concerned.)
Today, it’s back with a new, hopey, changey, post-partisan, do what I say look gloss. But it’s still fascism. And Obama and his cult of personality still reminds me of Moussolini.
The Left liked Hitler because he supported Stalin. That’s only fair, ‘cause the Soviets provided help for the Germans to rearm.
They became instant anti-Fascists when Hitler attacked the Soviets. No doubt, they would have done so if the reverse were true as well.
Businessmen liked how the Fascists handled the unions other thorns in their side, ignoring how the Fascists treated them.
I didn’t say it was rational. Rationality was pretty rare during the Depression, or FDR wouldn’t have lasted so long.