Well, actually it was about 6 million Jewish people, and 11 million total in the concentration camps (disabled, lgbt, gypsies, and other "undesirables") but yeah, that's exactly what the Nazis did. (sorry to be the "well, aCtUaLly" person but it's important to remember all of their victims).
Hitler and the fledgling Nazi Party were outliers and lost elections in the beginning. They kept chipping away at the rest of the Germans with their "blame it all on the Jews" crap and slowly took power. Legally. Through elections and by gutting the rules and power structure outlined in their constitution.
So yes, it can happen here, we just barely escaped disaster by getting rid of the Orange Menace, and the fact that even more people voted for his fascist ass than in the first election should scare everyone and keep them politically engaged. Because next time a smarter fascist will come along and we have all seen how many Americans are craving a fascist authoritarian ruler.
eikerni on March 31st, 2021 at 07:14 UTC »
Yea, people always think the Nazis just rose to power from one day to the other while not understanding how complicated the whole process was.
froggiechick on March 31st, 2021 at 07:26 UTC »
Well, actually it was about 6 million Jewish people, and 11 million total in the concentration camps (disabled, lgbt, gypsies, and other "undesirables") but yeah, that's exactly what the Nazis did. (sorry to be the "well, aCtUaLly" person but it's important to remember all of their victims).
Hitler and the fledgling Nazi Party were outliers and lost elections in the beginning. They kept chipping away at the rest of the Germans with their "blame it all on the Jews" crap and slowly took power. Legally. Through elections and by gutting the rules and power structure outlined in their constitution.
So yes, it can happen here, we just barely escaped disaster by getting rid of the Orange Menace, and the fact that even more people voted for his fascist ass than in the first election should scare everyone and keep them politically engaged. Because next time a smarter fascist will come along and we have all seen how many Americans are craving a fascist authoritarian ruler.
john_wallcroft on March 31st, 2021 at 07:30 UTC »
A lot more folks died than 6m, not all of them Jews of course. Don’t forget the poles, gays, the Roma people, disabled and other groups