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In reply to the discussion: Americans no longer have to guess how the Germans "allowed" H and Nazis [View all]DFW
(54,341 posts)They could speak up, act in force to show that Congress does not intend to go along with this degrading of the level of discourse and policy in this country. Fiscal responsibility is one thing. A wholesale destruction of the lower social strata and our natural resources, along with our world image is quite another level, and both of them are so far quite comfortable with Trump's antics. Oh, they'll make a face every now and then, but that's for Fox Noise to show their "independent streak," which lasts about as long as a total solar eclipse.
As for Eastern Europe, Romania and Bulgaria were always basket cases, Albania, too. Poland and Hungary have chosen to join them of their own free will. Hope only lives on in the former Czechoslovak parts and the former Yugoslavia. Even Greece is teetering on the brink, and Turkey has fully gone over to the dark side.
We are indeed more stable than the Weimarer Republik. They had something like 15% support for their sort-of equivalent of Democrats and Republicans and 3% to 5% each for everything from Sanders to Stein to McConnell to Duke to Arpaio. They only agreed to disagree. Even in the election of 1933, Hitler only got 33% of the vote, which was considered substantial under the circumstances.