• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    We wonder the same about Germans in the 30’s, but I think I can better understand why they did. I have no idea why we did.

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      Well alas we’ve seen it all before Knights in armour, days of yore The same old fears and the same old crimes We haven’t changed since ancient times

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        Have a black man as president broke the national brain. It would be like a Uyghur chairman in China. See how fast the Han chin se would break… Further.

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          Eh the US had cancer long before Obama. Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, W (or Chaney if you like) were all slow walking things to where the US is now.

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        It’s narcissism. Enough of the population became so self absorbed and lacking in empathy that they could be rallied by an enabler. Same case in Germany. Obviously 70 million Americans don’t have NPD, but he has a way of amplifying the narcissism in the common person by convincing them it’s righteous, as Hitler did.

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      When the death certificate on American empire is written, the cause of death will read: “Opulence, ignorance, corruption”, or simply “capitalism”.