How Nazis win

During the rise of the Nazi party, one corner of the German populace was indoctrinated in a form of irrational fear that dictates that the only solution to the demands of the common people is to create a greater, authoritarian fear in response and sell it as the will and action of the just people against a faceless, selfish Jewish enemy. This begat grabs for positions of suppressive power by Germany’s extremists.

Germans did not want what happened, yet the minority voice’s media machine, the voice of the Nazi, was so amplified in part by the majority’s complacency that by the time the majority realized it had to be stopped, these fearful men had used the government to push every level of society into an overwhelming national crisis. They used that crisis as a smokescreen to dismantle every check and balance that held their systems together. Then they blamed this newly broken system for the crisis and recused themselves. The party boastfully became the government right before the eyes of the German people.

Swap “Nazi” for “MAGA,” “Germany” for “the US,” “Jewish” for “Black and Latinx,” and “German” for “American.” We’ve been complacent for too long. This is the failure our children will come to know of us in their history class.