re: #149 LudwigVanQuixote

I am not going to quibble this with you. I really don’t care to. There are more than enough parallels to make the connection. You are correct that the outward manifestation is different. We have country music, they had ummmpahh bands. We have Jesus freaks in cowboy boots and they had Wagner worshipers in lederhosen. We have corporate backed jingoism, they had corporate backed jingoism. We have a white majority being daily terrified about communists and socialists. They had a white majority being daily terrified about communists and socialists. We have white people being terrified at losing the real America to others. They had white people being terrified at losing the real Germany to others. Do I need to go on? Apparantly I do.

I am sick of people not being able to see the forest for the trees.

You clearly have very strong feelings about your position on this. My only contention is that it is too early to tell how the parallels will develop. I am certainly not making a value-driven comparative argument about the relative evils of Nazism and other forms of fascism. But history is a source of learning and patterning; it does not necessarily repeat itself point-for-point.