(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Hitler Invalidated? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-11-14 The Hitler invalidation concept works like this: The first person to bring up Hitler or the Nazis in an argument about any modern figure or event loses the argument on technical grounds. It is a stupid axiom on its own but thats another discussion. There is an extremely appropriate comparison that can be made at this moment between Adolf Hitler and Donald J Trump. In fact, it is a comparison I have been acknowledging all the way back to 2015 when Trump started his campaign. Then the types of rhetoric that he used were copies of the Nazi playbook. He would frequently in his campaign point to the immigrants, the homeless, and the transgendered, to name some of the enemies he would claim that he alone could protect us from. This is the fascist calling card. It is simply telling the populace that they are under attack by whomever or whatever and that you alone as a candidate can protect them. That was then, now he has gone so far as to be quoting Hitler himself and continually upgrading the threats that he can protect us from. At this point he has committed to summary executions of drug dealers and far left zealots. He has also proposed concentration camps for the homeless, the immigrants. the dissidents, and others that get in his way. He has committed to weaponizing the justice department to act as a type gestapo agency to go after political enemies. There is more I could add but that isn’t really the point of my writing. My point of contention is why didn’t everyone learn about the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany like I did? The reason I ask is the story of Hitler and the Nazi’s was everywhere when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies. It seems to me that everyone that grew up around me should be able to spot what is primarily wrong with DJT. He wants to be a dictator and he will stop at nothing to achieve that goal, almost exactly like Hitler. It is up to our society to stop him or he is going to succeed just like Hitler did. It becomes a difficult proposition though if so few of us have connected the dots on this. Germany took the Nazi poison and look what happened to that country in the war. Following the Nazi leadership, they were virtually destroyed as well as the destruction they brought to Russia, Italy, and the rest of Europe. If it hadn’t been for the Marshall plan afterwards, Germany would be a poor country now with little infrastructure like the poorer countries in Europe. I don’t think Trump is going to win. He’s the worst candidate ever with 91 felony indictments all stemming from his first term in office. However, many Americans are not only okay with his criminality they seem to believe on one hand it’s all a witch hunt, but at the same time they admire his chutzpah for being such a brazen criminal. You can’t reach people who have such views because their views make no sense and are totally unreasonable. Somehow, they have to work through their cognitive distortions themselves. These same types of people though are the ones who threw Germany to the dogs, and they were the dogs. They became thugs in the street attacking the enemies that Hitler had called out ad infinitum. It’s already happening here with mass shootings of ethnic groups hated by Trump. These isolated and hate filled ner-do-wells are also the ones who rioted at the capital on January sixth. But looking back at his rhetoric at the present moment I just can’t understand why people are falling for the very program in this country that in World War Two the US not only conquered with its allies and denounced for its evil, but it also dissected every element of how it happened and what happened once it was established. This was done in the hope that it would never happen again in the world. At this moment it appears to have failed. Education was supposed to keep us free in the country but it doesn’t seem to work very well or reliably. I don’t know if it is the students or the educational system but somehow something is failing us and in situations like we are facing now with Trump few people seem to know what is going on or what is in store if we stay on this path. Naturally when the few of us bring up the problem of Trump and Hitler we are offered the Hitler in-validator by those who don’t know the first thing about Hitler or WWII except that Hitler and the war were bad and the US is good so that can never happen here. I just hope Trump doesn’t win because if he does the U.S. and the world will be irreparably harmed. Let’s make sure we don’t allow Trump/Hitler another chance to sow his hate and destruction throughout our country and the world. No matter how you feel about him, please vote Biden in 2024. It’s not just our country, the whole world is in peril if Trump wins. 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