Living In Hope
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- Location
- Petersfield
- Country
England
I don't completely disagree, but there were a few factors which led to the rise of the Nazis. One was deep and acrimonious division between the right and the left, which increasingly turned into violence against each other. Another was a sense of a country wronged and let down by its leadership, and looking back for inspiration to a previous era. And the Nazis saw democracy as a modern weakness, replacing it with dictatorship, and they found culprits to blame for their country's woes in the Jews.I've been thinking this too for a while now. That the left of today remind me more of Nazi Germany and their carry on rather than the "far right" have today.
There are elements of this in both right and left currently. Probably more so in the left in my view (anti-semitism, anti-democracy), but writing as someone with broadly right wing views, the right (inspired by a previous era, risk of replacing anti-semitism with anti-muslim / immigrant) also needs to ensure that it does not follow the path the Nazi movement.