Subject: Re: What are you doing right now?
True on all counts. The propaganda machine was very effective.

This was 1938 (annexation of Austria). The people hadn't really lived under the Reich prior to that, and only had the propaganda. Germany had been living under it, with the Gestapo (is ICE becoming the Gestapo?) and neighbors reporting each other, etc. Only about 32% (if memory serves) of Germans voted for the NAZI party, so even a majority of them weren't supportive. When Chancellor Hitler was able to invoke dictatorial powers, many (most) Germans did nothing. At some point (certainly before 1938), they were able to do nothing because the regime was firmly entrenched (I don't pretend to know exactly when that was). Hindenburg died in '34. So probably no more than a few months after that event, as a guess. The Reichstag burned in '33, which likely would have been the best shot at opposition prior to the Chancellor becoming der Fuhrer.

But the Dems can't campaign on those parallels. The populace will miss it, even if you and I don't. They need to focus on what is being taken away from people, and to whom "gifts" are being given (i.e. robbing the poor to pay the rich). Dems need to win the election(s) in 2026 and '28, not score points with -IMO accurate- comparisons to the fascists.**



**That's sort of a 'boy cried wolf' thing...Dems have been overusing the term "fascist" for so long that when real fascists show up, people ignore the Dems.