Well, some people did and no one is calling those people Nazis. But the people who said eh, I don’t need to do anything about this, I think it’s fair to criticize them. Yes, their resistance was best enacted collectively but they needed to make an individual choice to engage in collective resistance. Most did not make this difficult choice.
They are referred to as “the Good Germans,” the groups that were not nazis and would’ve been expected to stand up in opposition but went along to get along.
Well half of them doesn’t know what they support, many literally think they are opposing nazis by voting in nazis.
The other half think they are fighting nazis pushing for the '“safe” alternative to the nazis, the unpopular aristocrats running as the status quo against nazis running as a reform party in a time of anger and upheaval at the plutocratic rot evident to all.
Very few knew they were supporting nazis, although it’s a percentage, several percent, and that includes almost all of their influencers and leaders. Bannon, congress, prosecutors, judges, the executive branch, state house officials.
Those several percent that knew what they were supporting, they didn’t do it because of eggs, they did it because they think they will benefit, and apparently think they will never be thrown out of the club. That they will benefit, itself showing a lack of understanding on how this would play out.
All true, but they should have known. Politics was never meant to be a spectator sport. It requires work, even as an ordinary citizen. Especially as an ordinary citizen.
Well I guess better late than never but what I’m saying is that if enough of those people had acted openly sooner they never would have needed to be secret saboteurs.
Well, some people did and no one is calling those people Nazis. But the people who said eh, I don’t need to do anything about this, I think it’s fair to criticize them. Yes, their resistance was best enacted collectively but they needed to make an individual choice to engage in collective resistance. Most did not make this difficult choice.
They are referred to as “the Good Germans,” the groups that were not nazis and would’ve been expected to stand up in opposition but went along to get along.
A lot of parallels to the US right now, as OP correctly points out. Millions of Americans supported fascism because they wanted eggs to be cheaper.
Well half of them doesn’t know what they support, many literally think they are opposing nazis by voting in nazis.
The other half think they are fighting nazis pushing for the '“safe” alternative to the nazis, the unpopular aristocrats running as the status quo against nazis running as a reform party in a time of anger and upheaval at the plutocratic rot evident to all.
Very few knew they were supporting nazis, although it’s a percentage, several percent, and that includes almost all of their influencers and leaders. Bannon, congress, prosecutors, judges, the executive branch, state house officials.
Those several percent that knew what they were supporting, they didn’t do it because of eggs, they did it because they think they will benefit, and apparently think they will never be thrown out of the club. That they will benefit, itself showing a lack of understanding on how this would play out.
All true, but they should have known. Politics was never meant to be a spectator sport. It requires work, even as an ordinary citizen. Especially as an ordinary citizen.
Sure but I thought we were specifically talking about saboteurs, those working to undermining it from within.
Well I guess better late than never but what I’m saying is that if enough of those people had acted openly sooner they never would have needed to be secret saboteurs.