re: #75 Max D. Reinhardt

All that being true, if the “Tea Party” got into power I don’t think they would commit as heinous crimes as the Nazis.

Halting the construction of the Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero would be an egregious breach of the First Amendment but it is not on the same scale as Auschwitz or the T-4 program.

If my argument were restricted to just that, you would have a point.

If the economy remains stable certainly you are correct. If the economy takes a real body blow, all bets are off. If you honestly think that the people waggling their guns and vandalizing mosques are incapable fo such violence - or at the very least tacitly approving of it when the more radical elements do it, you are sadly mistaken.

The full blown Nazi horror needed over a decade to germinate.

We are still in the early stages and mercifully, the economy is intact.

However, if the economy tanks and Fox blames all the usual suspects and a group of wingnuts are elected in a fit of nativist rage… all bets are off. I don’t believe that the regular American army would so easily turn on its own people, but extensive racial violence of a Kristalnacht variety is not hard to imagine at all in America under those circumstances.