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I've always been curious how fascism takes hold, and how people like Hitler, Stalin. etc rise to power. Do people not see what is happening? Shouldn't hindsight, foresight and common sense kick in at some point? I used t think they were like mob bosses early on - anyone disagreeing with them ends up in a barrel, but surely were civilized and educated by now?

It seems the people don't want to jeopardize their comfortable livelihoods and individual lives so expect the 'powerful elected officials' to do their bidding. After all, the public gave them the power to do just that. Otoh, the politicians don't want to jeopardize their cushy jobs and accumulated power by challenging the majority, so are waiting for the public to start a jan6 situation so they can point and say, 'see, the people are unhappy so we should act'.

It's a shitstorm of no consequences and a man child hacking away at the country and no one seems to be doing anything meaningful. I'm literally watching fascism take place.

History/ psychology/ sociology majors care to chime in?

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[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I’ve always been curious how fascism takes hold, and how people like Hitler, Stalin. etc rise to power

Mate....

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No really. I'm aware of what's going on right now in the us. Did no one back then see what was happening then either?

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dunno. Trying to make sense of 'mate...'

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago

I wondered how long it would take for a .ml to turn up and contribute absolutely nothing.

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Dude, you are dealing with a liberal, not a moron. Remember, it doesn't matter if you're right if you sound like an asshole. We all were taught in school that Stalin was evil and bad just like Hitler therefore communism = fascism, and some of us were taught in school that Hitler was a socialist.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 points 5 days ago

a liberal, not a moron

Same thing an increasingly large percentage of the time.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk -1 points 6 days ago

1 - get off your high horse

2 - they asked a double question about how did Stalin and Hitler rise to power and how does fascism take hold in a society, they didn't equate Stalinism with fascism.