I agree with you Ned. I also believe that Mr/Ms Jahanapour is mostly correct, but went too light on the financial and sociological upheavals in pre-war Germany. Germany was saddled with the entire bill of war reparations from WWI, which came directly from the pockets of every citizen. Also, the monetary catastrophe that accompanied the great depression was many magnitudes of severity worse than our late, great recession, with loaves of bread (when you could find one) costing over a million Marks. Hitler had a receptive audience because he, like Trump, played to the fears and injustices - real or, in our case, imagined - of a large part of the population. I feel that Trump is, in a certain way, "worse" because he has no plan or actual ideology as the backbone of his self-described "movement" other than to profit monetarily from the hopes and fears of others. I doubt that he has plans to do what was done to the "out groups" under the National Socialists, but things like this have a way of getting out of hand.
I agree with you Ned. I also believe that Mr/Ms Jahanapour is mostly correct, but went too light on the financial and sociological upheavals in pre-war Germany. Germany was saddled with the entire bill of war reparations from WWI, which came directly from the pockets of every citizen. Also, the monetary catastrophe that accompanied the great depression was many magnitudes of severity worse than our late, great recession, with loaves of bread (when you could find one) costing over a million Marks. Hitler had a receptive audience because he, like Trump, played to the fears and injustices - real or, in our case, imagined - of a large part of the population. I feel that Trump is, in a certain way, "worse" because he has no plan or actual ideology as the backbone of his self-described "movement" other than to profit monetarily from the hopes and fears of others. I doubt that he has plans to do what was done to the "out groups" under the National Socialists, but things like this have a way of getting out of hand.