I just cannot belive how history is repeating itself.
I wouldn’t put it exactly that way, because history isn’t a person, an actor.
People are actors.
Those who have not learnt from history, they have to repeat it.
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Ab_intra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It won’t have a positive effect I’ll tell you that. Just look at Brazil… I’m pretty sure they got the idea to storm the congress from Trump…
The truth is that many democracies is getting weaker and there is a reason for that. Democracy is very weak and that’s why it takes so much to keep it at place. One autocratic leader is enough to break it. We saw it in Germany before the war and it migh as well happen in the US if we’re not careful. Another win for Trump might be the end for democracy in the US.
Do you know the sad part of this? There is so few republicans that openly criticize Trump. Of the few that has they have all been quited and removed from their positions. We are seeing the rise of facism in the US and people shout “USA, USA USA”… they are so fucking blind. I hope for the US peoples sake that they do not elect Trump, and I hope in the next 10 years we will see the formation of a new party that can become the new republican party for those that do not wish facism because that’s where the US is going with Trump.
I just can belive how history is repeating itself.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The hope was that enough people had learned to sound the alarm. We’ll, the alarm was sounded and nobody listened.
It’s not enough to learn history. Apparently, you have to live it.
Ducks@ducks.dev 1 year ago
Apparently, you have to live it
No truer words.
Pea666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most who have lived it are dead.
AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Democracy is very weak and that’s why it takes so much to keep it at place. One autocratic leader is enough to break it. We saw it in Germany before the war
It wasn’t “one autocratic leader” who broke democracy in Weimar Germany. Most of the judges, civil servants, parties and people were not happy with the transition from the German empire. Democracy breaks when nobody cares about it anymore. For Germany, this was most evident in the Prussian coup, when the state illegaly replaced the Prussian government, and nothing happened in response. This was taken to court and Prussia did have some success with it, but generally the deed was done. Imagine that during the next US elections it gets decided that California voted for the Republicans, and that goes through without much fuss. That is what causes democracies to fall, apathetic people and institutions, especially the latter. It’s the institutions that stand guard, like in 2019 when the Supreme Court declared Boris Johnson’s suspension of the parliament unlawful.
That’s not to say that democracy isn’t weakening globally, it’s just that this idea that Germany became a dictatorship because this one charismatic leader came and broke democracy is wrong. The Nazis, while not irrelevant in any sense, were not the main driving force behind Weimar Germany before 1933. The very reason Hitler became a chancellor was because the unelected conservative government thought that they could easily control him. The erosion of democracies happens in the institutions and people’s will, the autocratic leader just strikes the final blow.
Warfarin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just cannot belive how history is repeating itself.
You mean the history of the democrats manufacturing race issues to divide people to gain more power and claim anyone against them is against democracy
sadbehr@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
This is what is doing my tits in. It’s so fucking frustrating and maddening watching America go through this shit. It’s unbelievable.
I just try to remember that there are good people in America, and I hope they prevail.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I really hope they do too.
I’m surrounded every day by willfully ignorant people who haven’t taken the time to even think about all of this shit. They wait for some asshole to tell them what to think.
I’ll never forget the fear on their faces on January 6th. Sure, some of them were excited, big wide shit eating grins across their faces. Most of them were terrified.
All of them said the same thing pretty quickly after it happened no matter how they felt. “It was ain-tee-fuh. They trying to make us look bad.”
I just say, “well, look these people up and call them antifa. Tell me what they say. Most of them put their views on full display on the internet. It’s easy to look if you want to.”
I get a lot of it though. All the talk about “fake news” makes people feel like everything they see is a lie. I doubt myself pretty often because I’m always afraid some propaganda got me.
What Trump did was obvious. He did it in plain sight. People don’t even trust their own eyes any more.
Scary shit.
Seeing scores of people calling for public executions is what really gets to me. If they get real power a lot of people are going to die.