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No dang, YOU have destroyed this site. It's already well on its way to becoming the next Reddit. Only the most extreme progressive positions can be posted here, anything else will get flagged out of existence. Hackernews and all the other social media sites with their censorship are destroying the minds of people and furthering this division. Just look at this thread as a perfect example. Ruthmarx and I have a fundamental disagreement about the actual facts, and you call that a flamewar. Now we can't find a resolution. Neither of us can learn anything.

Where is the austerity? Does it have a knife?

If Dems don't want it why have they passed a bill that allows exactly that? My post is already censored btw.

It's just the same playbook. Deny problems, divert blame, call opponents bad names.

IF you were so interested in preventing the next Hitler what you would actually have to do is to rigorously oppose anything that threatens the livelihood of average people. Fighting inflation would be THE number one concern because you'd know that people carrying their money in wheelbarrows was what caused Hitler.

If you want to prevent Hitler, you'd fight like hell for decency. Homeless encampments? Open air drug dens? Only-fans? This would be your concern because you'd know that in the Weimar Republic rampant prostitution and other cultural decay is what caused Hitler.

If you wanted to prevent Hitler you'd also speak out sternly against Antifa and other violent extreme leftists, like those that caused the George Floyd riots, because you'd know that the breakdown of public order due to rampant political violence in the Weimar Republic is what caused Hitler.

Nobody on the left is doing any of that because nobody on the left really thinks Trump is a Nazi. It's just a label, just a tactic. And all it has done is to burn term. Trump or Maga or the current right reaction isn't the big bad. What comes after this might be, if Trump fails. Ironically, it's exactly Trump's agenda which is most suited to fight real fascism.

That's really a quite very unrefined view of Hitler's rise to power. If you really want to prevent Hitler then you have to prevent the end-stage of the Weimar Republic. So, you'd need a strong economy, rule of law, public order and a culture of decency and trust. What makes people yearn for autocratic rule isn't "blaming the jews" it's the everyday circumstances that arise when liberals are done running a place into the ground. Like California, at the moment.