The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate
theconversation.com
The early 1920s in the US offers historical lessons on how current pessimism about the state of the country can manifest in dangerous, discriminatory ways.

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  • immutable@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    The article is worth a read. A lot of Americans don’t realize how much of Nazi Germany ideas had inspiration from and solid support in America.

    WW2 provided two incredibly powerful antidotes.

    1. The US was one of the only industrialized nations not bombed to shit, giving us an economic advantage never before seen.
    2. the victory over the nazis gave us a shared narrative. A clean and easy story of the good of the allies overcoming the evil of the axis.

    For a few generations this carried us. But we shouldn’t forget history, Hitler looked to our eugenics programs for inspiration, not the other way round.