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Germany, 1933 redux
The incredible ignorance of perhaps as many as half of American voters is terrifying.
Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor on January 30, 1933, the Nazi state (also referred to as the Third Reich) quickly became a regime in which citizens had no guaranteed basic rights. The Nazi rise to power brought an end to the Weimar Republic, the German parliamentary democracy established after World War I. In 1933, the regime established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others classified as “dangerous.” Extensive propaganda was used to spread the Nazi Party’s racist goals and ideals. During the first six years of Hitler’s dictatorship, German Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives.
https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1933-1938
Trump would be a threat to not only America, but the entire world if he had control of the nuclear codes. It seems that far too many voters have crossed the line between ignorance and being unhinged. Any sane person can easily see that Trump is making it up as he goes along. And it should be apparent to any sane person that he is a psychopathic narcissist that presents a bigger danger to all of us than ISIS, Putin, or any other foreign entity.
Here we are at the end of May in a presidential election year contemplating what well might be the end of American democracy.
So here's my question: Come election day, will the majority of Americans jump off the cliff? (Or perhaps make the election close enough that Trump and the GOP can push us off that cliff?)
This isn't an idle question. It's a reality that's staring us in the face.
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