exactly.
i cant stand how people refuse to believe that those in power pay close attention to the ways in which hitler and many other leaders corrupt or otherwise managed to keep their population under control as they went ahead with a radical agenda. people always stretch the arguement to its extreme.
it's instantly translated as "bush wants to be the next hitler, recreate the third reich, and kill all the jews".
people refuse to see any truth and have to use strawman tactics to label anyone who would raise these points as a wacked out conspiracy theorist.
its easy to 'win' the arguement that way.
The only thing about history that keeps repeating itself is that the most powerful governement at any given point and time feels/believes that their way of governing is THE absolute best way to govern a nation.
And in often enough cases, that particular government feels compelled to change other governments to be similar to their own.
well as long as this is here, might as well post this from TPM Cafe about something a little more recent
history is repeating itself.
i said this before.
if history repeated itself..would we even notice?
Nazification: the foisting of the totalitarian pattern on a country, including state support for corporations, militaristic imperialism, suppression of constitutional freedoms, and the seizure of dictatorial power by the regime in control.
"Totalitarianism is a form of government in which the citizen is totally subject to absolute state authority in all aspects of day-to-day life. The term was created by Hannah Arendt in order to illustrate the commonalities between Nazism and Stalinism."