cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12367209
“Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”
Steve Bannon, former White House adviser, is heard in the background exclaiming, “All right! Amen!”
All Republicans are perfectly happy with the idea of having a (Christo-)fascist dictatorship in power in the U.S. . All that they care about is that the dictatorship rewards them with money and power. I know Republicans like this, people you might think were just ordinary folks, and they’re masters of telling themselves stories to justify their violence and thievery and masters at not seeing anything that might cause cognitive dissonance, to the extent that they’re capable of that at all.
Jan 6 was our Beer Hall Putsch. The Nazis didn’t get it on their first try, either.
Yeah thy seem to be moving towards the Reichstag Fire phase now.
They’ve been pushing the Reichstag Fire thing for a while, actually.
In that scenario, Hitler was saying that it was those damn “communists,” namely Marinus van der Lubbe, (there’s some debate on if he could have acted alone) who was allegedly a known pyromaniac with a history of mental illness.
The Nazis convinced a mentally ill person or persons to attack their capitol building and blamed it on the “communists.” Does that sound at all derivative?
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does echo.
What do we do?
Fuck if I know, but we’ve at least got a pretty solid case study to work with. What should the average German have done preceding the Nazi’s rise to power?
Cuz… that’s probably what we should do.