Reply #1: I saw this coming

[Hydra]

But I studied WWII in depth. Hitler provided a very valuable dark mirror to gaze into to see how people without morals destroy people who don't agree with them.

Most people are still too drunk on the illusion that we are a better nation to accept what they see, and therefore know about the people in charge here.

Let's See what Hermann Goring had to add to the discussion:

* Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

o In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946)

We are doing ourselves and everyone who died in WWII a disservice by ignoring the lessons of the past.