Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”. It started with intolerance and hate speech. It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye. Remember.
Exactly, you are so right. Being patriotic is deciding to *not* hate your fellow Americans just because politicians tell you to.
Dachau was opened 13 DAYS after the Nazis took over Bavaria: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_...
The holocaust started with one test subject being subjected to gassing. Check your headlines from the past few days. Search "Alabama" and "nitrogen".
One addition: Fiscal austerity is another aspect to take into consideration.
We need a book of just images of front page headlines from the time Trump declared his candidacy to Feb-March 2020. People need that easy reference book for anytime they start to forget what it was like.
This is a little of an oversimplification and develop a little bit later but yes that's true. There's a lot of economic issues that proceed this that allowed Hitler to come to power.
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away." - Naomi Shulman
That's going to be tough with this narcissistic lot 😥