America's Coming Weimar Moment
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2022
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Still trying to figure out how a historian of the circa-Nazi era can in good faith count themselves as social democrat and use the three arrows when you know perfectly well what it represents and how those who used the three arrows used them to suppress the only movement which was capable of resisting the Nazi threat rather than engaging in collaborationism and elevating the fascists into a position where they could seize power.
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Can you suggest other RUclipsrs?
I've missed you. It's been depressing
@@mary-janebrewington8503 Majority Report, Second Thought, and Left Reckoning I would suggest. They are the more educated side of left RUclips.
A lot of others fall into the gamer dude s*** talking types. Second Thought is one I would say for sure.
Oh, and Beau of the Fifth Column. How could I forget that guy.
So ya, happy learning.
Hey! Where's that great piece about this by your man Ryan Cooper in the American Prospect that was supposed to be linked in the description for us?
He is alive!
you're always in the good youtubers comment sections
I-Is it true? Is this the real channel?
What the actual fuck
What the heck, kings and generals is watching leftist content? I'm positively surprised!!
@@TheAltair716 they also commented on at least one video by the youtuber contrapoints :)
Hey Wisconsinite here. To give perspective on how bad the gerrymandering is I live about 10 minutes outside of a college town. I have lived here for decades at this point. I grew up here, went to school there, worked there, and yet I don’t vote with them. Instead I vote with another town more than 40 minutes away that I have been to a handful of times in my life. A town that almost always votes red.
Fellow Wisconsinite here, you're absolutely right and it's maddening.
Just imagine if you had state wide proportional representation instead!
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 Ridiculous! What's next, not running the country based on guessing what some dead oligarchs might've wanted?
@@chadatchison145 No, no .....mandering 😀 😀
At least you have a Rich Evans.
It will never not be maddening and insanity inducing: that we have the historical context to know exactly where we're headed, but not the self-awareness to care, acknowledge, or do anything about it. Many will piss and shit themselves at the mere mention of the rise of fascism in the U.S., will outright laugh at people pointing out the parallels between what is happening in the states currently and the circumstances that led to the nazis taking power.
Sort of feels like an episode of the Twilight Zone, except it's the reality in which many of us are currently having to live in.
Gramsci - "The pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will." We see how hard our path is to freedom but we are willing to fight for it. Many things historically seemed doomed but the will of the people saved history. Never give up but don't be delusioned that the path will be easy
If you think we have the historical context to "know exactly where we're headed", then you're overlooking a few big points Three Arrows made in this video. Not being able to predict the future is a pretty basic tenant of history.
You Three Arrows Gang are wild. But as a Marxist Leninist Tankie I just to say if you want to end Fascism you have to change the base mode of production to Socialism.
Fascism is a part of the Superstructure. Things like Schools, Churches, The Press. Society. A Society will always become increasingly Fascist as long as Capitalism is the base mode of production. Fascism is the highest stage of Capitalism.
You can’t change and maintain the Superstructure till you shape and maintain The Base.
Basic Marxism 101
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do are doomed to watch."
Its because that is what they want. They just think they wont do a holocaust, the rest isnt so taboo to them tbh
Grandparents fled before the war... grandchildren wonder if they may have to try fleeing back to Germany now. How is this progress?
@@jequirity1 Watch out in italy. Their facist party around Giorgia Meloni seems on the road to win the next elections
@@jequirity1 You know that the next prime minister of Italy will most likely be the leader of the neo fascist brothers of Italy. Mussolinis grandson sits in the EU parliament for them.
And some of us can't even flee due to disability and immigration laws. Don't worry - we'll wave from the republican death camps!
If you are trans and have british roots its even worse since you are trading one country that opresses you for another while both leaderships are incompetent, xenophobic and corrupt
Literally me
As an American who got a degree in German and political science (yeah, it's a very useful degree...), I constantly find myself trying to explain that the rise of Fascism (including Nazism) wasn't just like one day this wizard shows up and magically turns the country into a dictatorship. It was a lengthy process that took nearly a decade and a half in Germany. Yes, Italy's transformation was faster but they had their own issues, and ultimately still had a monarch who wielded power above Mussolini (and Mussolini was ultimately brought down when the King fired him). Even once Hitler was in power and the Enabling Act was passed, it still took about a year and a half for the Gleichschaltung to complete. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be vigilant; quite the opposite, we should be aware of the gradual slip to authoritarianism at the hands of populist right-wing demagoguery.
Well said.
What's your take on Japanese fascism?
As a German I think that exactly because it is a slow process it is so difficult to fight. Because the public is basically gaslighted bit by bit to accept it. If those people would start with their end-goal, there would be way more resistance against it.
How do you feel about the three arrows logo?
Trump and Hitler literally come from the same town, Trump is Hitler's book of speeches _My New Order_ verbatim at his rallies. He has friends who greet him with a hail Zeus and click of the heels, his name in Gematria is _Messiah_ Baron is the same word as _Fuhrer_ denoting a Knight of the Holy Roman Empire.
Donald (King) John (the Baptist) Trump (G.O.A.T) was born during a Super Wolf Blood Moon 7 days before the Summer solstice under Orion the Mighty Hunter, 700 days before the founding of Israel. He was inaugurated on the Centenary of the Bolshevik revolution and the capture of Jerusalem aged 70yrs 7 months and 7 days, he moved the embassy to Jerusalem on israel's 70th anniversary and lives on the 66th floor of 666ft Trump tower with a giant mural of Zeus on his penthouse ceiling. Seig hail is the Greek salute to Zeus, or the Sun. His Tropical Sunsign is Gemini, the Twins, but his Siderial sign is Taurus, his starsign is Capricorn but is really Serpentis, the Serpent Bearer. Biden is a Scorpio, aka the Scorpion King, who stings Osiris' ankle, in order for Isis to resurrect him in the form of Serpentis 13th Sunsign of the Babylonian Zodiac. MAGA is latin for wizard, and Klan wizards burn the Phoenician Sun God Symbol in illumination ceremonies aka pyre rites or Holocaustis, meaning "burnt offering" just like the burning of effigies at Bohemian Grove in the Cremation of Care Ceremony.
The first form of the Bible, the Vaticanus Graecus was written around the same time as the Antikythera mechanism was built in 325BC. The name means Son of the Serpent, a reference to Hydra in Leo, and Fomalhaut in Aquarius, in the 3rd Century AD Astrologer Vettori Valentinus used the Vaticanus Graecus to construct a 13 cycle Lunar Zodiac. King Sigismund God King Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (who commisioned the Rosslyn Chapel) gave Count Dracuul his name in 1431, it means Order of the Dragon, and Dracula means Son of the Dragon, Chertoff means Son of the Devil in Russian. The original name of the Templars was the Great Brotherhood of the White Serpent, and the Essenes were dedicated to interpreting the Mysteries of Pythagoras, whose name means Heart of the Serpent, a reference to Alphard in Hydra, called the Vermilion Dragon by the Chinese, the Constellation associated with the Phoenix, who appears on the Eastern Horizon at Xmas, when Osiris is at it's Zenith. Next to Orion is Pleiades, in the center of which is Alcyone, which sits at 33 degrees of the Zodiac.
Trump shares his birthday with Osiris, St John, Aleister Crowley, and Aushwitz, and 14 days before his coup attempt Saturn, Jupiter, and Uranus shared a Great Conjunction in Aquarius, the brightest since it happened in Virgo, Beth Elam, House of Bread or Fruit in 7BC. He also watched an Annular eclipse on his birthday halfway through his first term. Israel is the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, Fruit of Isis and Ra, Serpentis, or Eschmun, the Widow's Scion, Phoenician God of Healing, who became Apollo, Zeus of the Cave, a reference to Serpentis, which is shaped like a cave, and whose Scion was Asclepius, from whom we get the Caduceus. And before Eschmun it was Enoch, Hermes, and Thoth, who is the Son of Set, or Typhon.
The Cave of Apollo in Cilicia and Delphi is also the home of Typhon, Tphens or Zaphon, the 100 Headed God, Hydra takes up 100 degrees of the Zodiac. It was Hermes Trismegistus who placed his Emerald Tablets inside the Arc of the Covenant, buried beneath pillars of Emerald and Gold. Those Pillars can only be found at the Temple of Melqart, in Tyre, which means Rock, and sits offshore of Urshu Shalom, City of the New Moon, the root word of Jerusalem. It is the first New Moon in September that marks Rosh Hashanah, the Egyptian, Phoenician, Jewish, Assyrian and Celtic New Year, marking the start and end of the Zodiac, the Alpha Aleph, being Taurus and Pleiades and the Omega, Isis. Between these sits Sirius, aka Thoth, from which the Syrians take their name. The Temple was built when Rameses II married Jezebel, the Hittite Princess from Sidon, which means Kingdom of the Fish, the Phoenician Symbol for fish is X, which became the Chi Rho, and later the Latin Exe. She was the Daughter of Hiram, who built the Tower of Babel for Pharoah, in order to meet the God of Moses. This marriage in 911BC marked the founding of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Their Son is Eshmun, the God of Healing, aka Baal, or Lord, Pan is the Slavic word for Lord. The Grotto of Pan can be found at Mt Hermon, which was considered a Grove, and where the head of Goliath is buried. Israel is currently building a Temple to Trump at the summit. Another name for Enoch is El Ashmunein.
The Catholic Jesus is based on Melqart and Hercules, Tammuz, Apollo, his best analogy though is Dionysus, God of Wine, born to Zeus and Persophenes, who sits atop the Capitol building in DC, she's the wife of Hades/Zeus in the form of a Serpent, and Goddess of War, Pain Suffering and Death, aka Isis, Athena, Sekhmet, Kali, Kybele, Gebal, Gabriel, Mary. Her mother is Demeter, Goddess of Grain. Holodomor means pain offering, just like in Georgia in 33 under Stalin. 2021 marks 33 years to 2054, the 1000th anniversary of the Schism of Rome, when global average temperatures are set to hit plus 5 degrees celcius, at plus 2 we can't grow grain at scale and 9 billion people will lose 90% of their food supply.
Methane from Beef farming makes up 52% of all greenhouse gases, and is 90% subsidized subsidised. Banning Beef subsidies could stall climate change overnight, but guess who runs the Beef Racket...
Oil giants Shell and BP are planning for global temperatures to rise as much as 5°C by the middle of the century. The level is more than double the upper limit committed to by most countries in the world under the Paris Climate Agreement, which both companies publicly support. Oct 27, 2017 (BP and Shell expecting catastrophic 5°C global warming by 2050)
The founders of the CIA, FBI, DC and the designers of the Pentagon were all Catholic, so too Tucker Carlson, Beck, Hannity, Spicer, O'Reilly, Ingram, Pence, Hawley, Blasio, Manafort, Prince, Devos, Kavanuagh, Barrett, Gates, Fauci, Abbott, Manchin, Comey, Rogan, Jones, Dore, Kulinksi, Rubin, Pool, Peterson, Dice, Cernovich, Crowder, Molyneux, Fuentes, Yilanopouse, Pompeo, Spencer, Bolton, Abrams, Stone, Desantis, Bezos, Cuomo, Pelosi, Biden, Maddow, Hayes, Cooper, Collins, Rubio, Cruz, Gutfeld, Mattis, Richardson, Ryan, Huckabee, Gingrich, Sessions, Guiliani, Flynn, Bannon, Barr, Christie,, Richardson, Melania, Kelly, Conway, Gionet, Johnson, May, Blair, Thatcher, Trudeau, Merkle, Tusk, Farage, Morgan, Cowell, Ventura, Bolsanaro, Putin, Posobiec, Corbett, Robinson, Woods, Icke, Camp, Duke, Kirk, Watson, Iverson, Ball, House. 7/9 Supreme Court Justices are Roman
Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Orwell, Freud, Johnson, and Trump all come from Vienna Bavaria capital of the Holy Roman Empire. Pro life is a foundational Roman tenet.
Mayer Rotschild sent sons to establish banking operations in London, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, and Naples. Baron is a title given by the Holy Roman Empire, it is also known as Fiehrer, or Fuehrer.
Baron (Baron and Fuehrer are the same title) Mayer Amschel Rotschild (1744-1812), was a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s.
Wikipedia
"The NWO will begin Sept 17th 2001 during Rosh Hashanah Feast of Trumpets, Resurrection of the Dead, the year 6000 of the Great Pyramid Calendar, in order to cleanse the Earth and Humanity in preparation for his Kingdom on Earth"
British Israel Foundation memo 1922.
Same year Boris Johnson's Great Grandad and Architect of the Armenian genocide Mustafa Ali Kemal sent Trump's Grandad Baron Don Von Drumph to America from Vienna Bavaria, Capital of the Holy Roman Empire. Same place Stalin, Tito, Trotsky, Lenin, Orwell, Franz Ferdinand, and Freud came from.
Source: Wikipedia
British Israel Foundation
as a german witnessing what's going down in the states is just scary
As an American I am desperately learning German to get the fuck out of here.
Even worse than 36 because this time it's the most powerful military power in human history going fascist. What a shit show.
SAVE US
As outlandish and unrealistic (and I mean come on, it won't happen...) as it is - just for a moment entertain the thought of the most powerful nation on Earth flipping into Semi-Fascism. That's horrifying. It wouldn't be a third rate power like Germany - it'd be the largest economy in the world - the *preeminent* military hyperpower.
@@castor9683 I was thinking the same, how do we stop them, cant rely on russia this time either
Hey, I really like this stuff about connecting contemporary politics with history!
I really like your stuff about connecting contemporary politics with reality TV
@@morbidsearch We can all see the relevance of good looking people on an island trying not to copulate, and spectacularly failing, when examined along side American politics. It is just like Americans voting against their own self interests and electing those that seek to suppress the very working class that elected them by stripping them of rights, shifting the tax burden onto them, and distracting from issues inconvenient to their corporate donators by focusing only on absurd culture war issues. Voting against self interest is like one of the island studs getting an erection. They both know this one act is detrimental to their futures and all they have worked for, but there just isn't enough blood in the brain while maintaining an erection or getting caught up in the war on Christmas or one teenage trans girl in middle America winning a swim meet. So they know not to cheat on their significant other and lower the prize pool or believing Christians are the most persecuted class or that trans people are responsible for inflation, but it just feels so damn good to them at the time and their wills are weak do to that lack of blood flow. At least a few do have post-vote clarity, but it is not nearly as common as post-nut clarity.
Love catching my favorite RUclipsrs in the comment section of my other favorite RUclipsrs!
Pretty wild thing to do, if only some bearded german did it almost 200 years ago
Yea that sounds pretty cool, you should make a channel about that
Also - that's why I'm worried about my own country - Poland. Government here hijacked the Constitutional Tribunal first and made a "Judicial Reform" for others.
You are right.
I fear your country will have a significant chance of a fascist government within the next several decades.
@@connorhutchinson9615 Depending how you define it, you can say we already have it. Though obviously if we go with the spirit of this video and slightly less loose definitions of "fascist" - then yeah. Current one isn't fascist yet. But they do have this tendencies. They control state media and their level of being "fair" to government is closer to Russian or North Korean State media than to Western ones.
But there was still possibility that they could be voted out in elections next year. However due to the War in Ukraine, people will get behind that government. Especially since they decided to increase Military spending etc. The problem is that even I agree with them on those 2 things. We need to support Ukraine as much as possible and we need better army. However on that second point they are only doing flashy stuff. They don't spend money wisely. They throw it away for increase of capabilities in 1 specialty for 10 or more times the cost it would take if it was done smartly. Their plans to have 300.000 strong Military are.... weird. We have problems with maintaining numbers in current army - and now we would have to expand it by more than 100%? Ridiculous.
But that makes them popular. Problem is that people either love them or hate them. Same with other parties. And the left in Poland as usual is divided and from time to time they also suggest some ridiculous things. Center is almost non-existent at this point. You have parties that are center-right and center-left in theory, but in reality those are only less fringe options. PO (previous government, before 2015) had a lot of issues, but they were right-wing light and even had some centrists.
And current government tried taking over the power, when they ruled in 2005-2007, but were ousted in elections, because people turned out to vote in droves against them. But back then they didn't manage to take over media completely. And they didn't hijack judiciary. They've learned their lesson sadly.
Poland will become like Turkey.
I wrote about Poland and the US in my BA thesis a few years back, relating to abortion and women's rights. I was genuinely shocked about some of the things I came accross, the ways in which the Polish government seeks to undermine very fundamental rights and legislation. I truly hope "we" can turn this around.
Yup, a Wisconsinite here. You nailed it. Quietly we loose our Republic to people screaming about CRT being taught in elementary schools.
Yo but we’re not Germany. It gonna end in violent multi-decade insurgency. It’s gonna be a modern rome, constantly infighting and slowly fragmenting
Yep its our responsibility to not let that happen
Perhaps don't politically indoctrinate children in schools then
@@06hurdwp hello russian troll🙋
@@MrN0nex you're very confused my man
Listening to someone like Steve Bannon... there are others... you can sense the joy and motivation they have at undermining the state legally, and via its own institutions. They feel especially clever when their political enemies are restrained by institutions he does not respect, and all watching know that.
Philosophy Tube did a video on Steve Bannon, where he created a character called The Arsonist, whose monologue gave all the reasons why people like Bannon exist. And they want to burn those institutions down to the ground because they hate things being the way they are. They feel entitled to do so, because they are afraid of becoming irrelevant, and as capitalism is lurching from crisis to crisis, they're right to be scared. So, they need to break up the established order so that they can retain control.
It's the difference between a process vs. outcome thinking.
At least it seems like Steve Bannon's mere existence has taken a severe physical toll on him. Dude looks like he's rotting alive.
I just don’t understand fascists. I don’t understand why they’re so cruel. Why they have such a misanthropic view of the world. They want to bring unlimited suffering and misery to countless people they’ve never even met. It makes no sense.
@@unslaadkrosis3489 This is because you have empathy, my friend. Fascists see empathy as weakness.
I always enjoy your videos. I’m a Black American female. One of my many concerns is that some of our white brethren tend to ignore issues that only affect us. They seem to perform elaborate mental gymnastics to explain away any issue as self-inflicted or a personal failure and so the fight or solution does not involve them. Even issues that will clearly reach them eventually are kinda ignored and not discussed for fear of feeling uncomfortable. My wish is that they would see the bigger picture of how an injustice to us is like a canary in a coal mine. You stamp it out before it gets bigger. Some examples of this include the opioid crisis, teen pregnancy and police brutality. But this also applies to Gerrymandering, which will eventually reach areas of consequence if bad people are allowed to continue unchecked.
As a white american male, I completely agree. I think a lot of privileged people will advocate for social justice, but they always push back at any idea of progressive economics, completely ignoring that the economic inequalities in the U.S. are a main reason why these issues are problems to begin with. Many people see the problem getting bigger, and instead of replacing parts of the system, we just want to add bandaids to it, expecting that it won’t completely fall apart.
well said, mario
I don't think you understand how a canary in a coal mine works.
@@rembrandt972ify A warning sign to get out?
Also, how do you propose to stamp out teen pregnancy? Teens have been having it off with both teens and adults since before the agricultural revolution. Many have tried to stop it, with little effect. It seems better sex ed helps a little, but education doesn't 'stamp out' anything.
This is fascinating. The open question of whether Democrats will step up and do what's needed is, I think, already answered by the fact that they are completely dependent on corporate interests. They would rather become a moderate dissenting party with no power under Republican/fascist rule than risk rocking the boat with corporations by pushing the interests of citizens.
You talking about the same party that created the very mess the USA is currently suffering?? I do find it funny Dan here is talking about "democracy" yet ignores the fact the USA is not a democracy and he ignores the lack the democracy in his own nation especially on the refugee and EU question.
The democrats aren't any better about their fascism. They gerrymander and rig elections just the same. They only call it out for their own political expedience, not to protect democracy. Personally, pro choice fascism really isnt better than pro life fascism.
@@kizzagt - this is an amusing bit of drivel. The United States is a Republic but it elects its representatives using democratic elections. As for your drivel blaming the Democrats for the current mess in the US is an unsupported and unsupportable opinion. Bye
@@kizzagt
*"the USA is not a democracy"*
oh, are you one of those doucebags?
KEvron
what is "what is needed" exactly? unless they have more votes they can't do much. And the interests of citizens are going to republicans as they get the house in the midterms
Just when we needed him most, he returns... Hello there, Dan. You are most welcome back!
The war in Ukraine started months ago. He is late.
As a trans person in the u.s. I don't know what else to do but try to get out of the country before anything happens with my older partner who has been outside of the states before
As a disabled person there's no country in the world that would ever let me emigrate so I'm screwed if things go south.
@@vashsunglasses ime pretty sure there are at least SOME how would
Evain if they ate not great if they let you in they probably won't kill you
I advise you to get out. Even if a civil war would go poor for the fascists you would still be prime target for progroms and lynchings.
all eurocentric countries are bad like this. people just like to point the finger at america but in reality america is just a loose collection of different european peoples. its essentially where europeans go to commit mass crimes
@@U.F.R.G Sadly, the US is one of the only countries that doesn't consider it in your immigration application.... which is darkly amusing, really. But, no, it really is that bad, unfortunately.
Ghost, a Swedish band, has also made the basic comparison in their song "Twenties". I actually like that it is becoming a general thing because it means people are at least admitting the US is going right.
Going? It's always been on the right. The place has never had left wing representation.
@@rabsputin "going right" just means that you are becoming more right wing than before. you do not have to start out left wing to "go right"
*admitting
Sorry I had to; but I do agree with the sentiment though. It’s scary.
*Going Fasc. Fixed that for ya.
@@AhsimNreiziev I didn't feel the need to say the quiet part out loud but sure this is the trajectory.
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There's a lot of very valid parallels to draw for sure.
I do think the "top 10 fascism moments this week" conversation is one that is not entirely trivial with the insanity vortex that is the GOP continually picking up speed, but it's important to know what made the Weimarer Republik the nutrient-rich soil for fascism that it was, not just know the name and throw it around. Anyone who believes that the US political establishment has just started leaving the beaten path and hasn't been setting up and making allowances for years, making the current speedrun of injustice possible, hasn't been paying attention.
You can't stop us. Run? hide? fight? Doesn't matter. We are going to make America great again!
Genuinely don't understand why a sane government would have a politically elected life term supreme court
Rogan: How is that even legal?
Sanders: They write the laws, Joe.
Since the gay marriage decision I've been against America's supreme court and now since it struck down Roe V Wade it seems the social liberals have also realised the supreme court sucks. Finally something the social liberals and conservatives can agree on.
@@EuropeanQoheleth mate the supreme Court was packed by liberals in the 1860s to end slavery. They have seen it as flawed over 160 years ago...
This isn’t a sane government
It's especially weird, that the supreme court holds so much influence, that everybody knows the names of the supreme justices and everything about them. I don't know anybody in the german constitutional court by name, or anything about them. Generally speaking, they have a more passive role, with their main focus being on reviewing the constitutionality of laws being passed and giving their statements and possible adjustments to fix potentially risque laws. They're also not in their position for life. I think they serve 12 year terms, they have (I think) a maximum of 2 terms and an age limit, they must not exceed. Also, our chancellor doesn't get to choose the judges, but (I think) that gets sort of rotated between our parliament and the representative body of our states (they are chosen by state parliaments and not elected). But the corresponding other branch of the legislative also has to agree (or something like that, I'm not entirely sure tbh and I thin I would have to look up all the details)
If you ask me, I get the feeling our civil war will be more like the troubles of Ireland(many act of terrorism, rallies, big brawls, fight of laws, etc but not full on military battles), only it happening to a big country rather part of an island, I mean you could said we already in one given the clashes bewteen left and right wing.
Thats basically my thought too.
That is a good thought.
But in that case the military would have to be pretty much neutral, right? I don't think the US military eill do that. They will either split and then you have a real civil war or they will all support fascism.
Yep. Luckily, the GOP keeps coming down on the side of issues that matter to various groups, like veterans, that _should_ keep them militarily and law enforcement-wise weak. This whole FBI clapback included. I'm not a huge fan of law enforcement, but I feel like they're still trying to do the decent thing in many instances now. The school shootings and lack of action, for me, are one of the worst indicators as to where the country is. But you have to go after corruption in government; you can't just let the money run through and gut everything.
@@tilltronje1623 The US military is forbidden to operate on home soil, and they seem to be pretty serious about that. Now the _National Guard_ on the other hand might murder a lot of Americans, wouldn't be the first time for them, but unless the system collapses completely I don't think the military will be involved in a direct way.
@@christineherrmann205 A lot of republicans voted against the bill that would help Vets that were exposed to Agent Orange and burnpits, so they don't even care about them anymore.
As a leftist in Florida, it’s always unnerving to hear people from the outside looking in come to the same conclusions that I have.
Wish us luck.
I will bet you 10,000 dollars nothing will change even if republicans are in office for 10 years continuously
Good luck mate, we're gonna need all of it.
Take your medications and just try to relax. You are in a echo chamber of fear and delusions and all this is done on purpose to fire up voters for elections are near again and pure evil is on the other side.
Stay safe.
You are under the neoliberal-democratic moral matrix. Trump supporters are under the neoconservative-christian moral matrix.
Bind and Blind. What you get is fascism. Fascism is the the cooperation of Capitalism/Monarchism with Communism/Socialism
This is what we have... and because of this individual rights will start to decay. As people get sucked into socialist-capitalism we will see a decline in moral capital.
I keep telling my friends that there is a very real possibility of America falling to fascism in the near future, and neither of them seem to believe me. Maybe this video will help me convince them! Considering one is black and one is gay, they really need to be taking this situation seriously.
I do think it's more on what side the fascism will come from. Either from alt right populance or governmental.
I'm so worried for young people who don't remember what it's like to live in a rigidly WASP world. It's even worse than you imagine.
Hell given facist regime were this weird version of the past, image not only living in a WASP society, but having those weird facist ideas of it.
Hope so.
I predicted where things were heading the day the Tea Party debuted on Fox News. It was obvious conservatives would lose control of that beast sooner or later and fascists would take over. Ever since then it's been steadily downhill, I don't understand how some people still don't see it this late in the game.
Watching the reaction to trans rights in this country is a real trip. That's what's on my mind, gleefully knowing half the country is close to ripping you apart for being different and the other is somewhat willing to accept. History doesn't repeat but it sure does rhyme.
Actually the only ones ripping people apart are talmudic leftists and complicit drs removing healthy sex organs to sterilize children and the mentally ill and autistic. You get what you deserve eventually.
You are severely overestimating the acceptance side. It is not a 50-50 split
its not even close to half really. even if every right winger was against trans rights theyd still be severely outnumbered
@@flyingmonkeys96 Its higher then it was in the 1990s but no its not evenly split. I would say half at the very least aren't hoping for violence.
According to Pew research, around 65% of US adults support anti discrimination protections for transgender people, but only 38% believe that gender can be different from sex assigned at birth, a number that is shrinking in recent years. This number is split between age demographics, with around half of those under 30 and only a third of those over 50 agreeing.
Essentially, most either support or don't have an opinion on anti discrimination policies, but most don't accept trans people as the gender they identify as.
Excellent video. The extremists are always a problem but a bigger problem is the apathy of others and the institutions acting when it's too late.
fascists are always a problem
the right wing...is always the problem.
no more BS doublespeak.
we have 2 right wing parties, so the left is free of blame.
The apathy is the fault of our current regime and our elites failing the people.
I disagree. I think extremist are the people who get things done
@@marcello7781 takes a radical of any political identity to get something done. America was founded on radicals. Every country pretty much was
@@Jerichomyresten things done like massacres and authoritarian policies. Unless it's extremists reacting against such massacres and policies.
Thank you for pointing out the historical fallacy of teleology. This moment cannot be compared with any other point in history. It is its own moment. Human experiences rhyme but they do not directly copy.
What we face in the United States is something new. The only reality is that the republic is definitely strained.
this is internally contradictory. if you admit that history "rhymes" then you are saying that you can find similarities. Which means you can compare. Sure, it's not exactly the same, and things won't go exactly the same way. But we should learn from history and try to stamp out with conviction any force that seeks to drag us to a dark place that we have seen before.
At the moment I'm optimistic, I like this mar-a-lago raid- I hope an arrest comes of it, causing Trump's supporters to do go wild and do some wacky shit because they can't help themselves, which could give a great pretext to Lord Brandon to begin mass arrests of the GOP. The seditious behaviour of the GOP has, in my opinion, justified a mass arrest of the party for many years now, but this would seal the deal I think.
@@ff-qf1th Holy shit you actually think there's going to be a mass arrest of the GOP?
@@ff-qf1th Maybe what you are attempting to stomp out isn't what will drag us from the light and into darkness. Have you ever stopped and thought about that?
But acknowledging the rhyme is important and that isn't being acknowledged.
@@ff-qf1th Biden won't do shit he hasn't done shit. This is my issue with liberals you think Biden isn't a sympathetic to the GOP
Everyone (including me) likes the flashy bits of history, the speeches, the riots, the revolutions etc., but we often forget how important the underlying processes are. By the time the flashy bits happen, a million quiet boring things happened that lead to that moment. I experience this in my own country as well. I'm from Russia, and things like taking over the Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine were all huge moments, but there was a million small things happening before that. A great analogy I heard was the frog in the bucket - in order to cook a frog you don't need to blast them with boiling water right away, you just slowly raise the temperature, and the frog won't notice until it's dead. We had a government formed after a messy crash of a dictatorship, and even though most people in power were not that democratically inclined, there was still hope in politics, there was real opposition, but it slowly but surely got crushed. If you look at Russia 15 years ago and now it's a huge difference, now any opposing political thought gets destroyed by police searches, jail time for likes on a post, massive fines that destroy people's lives, and all it took was 15-20 years of quietly passing laws, appointing judges, faking election results and boom - now if someone gets prison time for holding up a piece of paper that says 'no to war' it's perfectly legal within our system.
TLDR: Shit sucks, man. Слава Україні!
Have people actually gone to prison for protesting? I know people have been arrested but have any been imprisoned? That journalist on the main TV news only got a fine and no prison. I know in theory the law allows for up to 10 years but what actually happens is often different.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 A lot of people get short sentences like 15-30 days in prison, but in some cases it's much longer, Alexey Gorinov got 7 years, for example. Daniil Tikhomirov - 1,5 years. Also, some people get dragged through the court system without an actual sentence, like Alexandra Skochilenko, who's been in jail since April and doesn't have a sentence yet, the court dates get delayed all the time. I think it's purposeful torture in her case. bc she has serious health problems which got a lot worse since she's been jailed and she's being refused medical attention. A lot of people who got shorter sentences lost their jobs and with them the last means to live and close attention from the police and Centre E (Centre against extremism, basically a system of internal political spies and snitches). If you get caught protesting the second time, the punishment will be more severe.
When I read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich I was astonished by how much the Weimar Republic paralleled the current US political dynamics. There were many times where I would have to remind myself that I was reading about 1920's Germany and not contemporary America.
And the thing people need to realize is that it't not the left that resembles the Weimar Republic, nor is it the right. It is the political system itself. It comes down to a political system that is so disfunctional that it is incapable of implementing anything more than tax cuts.
Ooooh, don't forget passing laws that empower citizens with no standing to sue thier neighbors over private Healthcare decisions.
something i would like to add: before weimar it was impossible to become a judge, if you were from a working class family. If you somehow managed to cough up the exorbitant fees, you would be rejected because your family was not important enough. you would instead become a defense attorney (one of those assigned to you by the court), or if you were really good, an attorney.
those attorneys would then be extremely vicious in order to prove themselves, that they were one of the good ones, to gain respect from a monarchist club of judges.
This said with a German accent makes it 10x more depressing
I would compare America today to the politics of the gilded age
Two middle class parties and a politics that is completely divorced from what regular people want
He's back!
Also, always amused how much greater your understanding of American government and politic is compared to most of us Yankees.
Some of us aren't just posting online to feel better.
Some of us are beaten down and it's all we've got in us. It's better than nothing and I have personally witnessed people on forums go from posting right wing fascist bullshit to moving significantly to the left.
Yeah I know it's nowhere is near left enough for anyone on this channel let alone the channel owner.
But it's like Beau of the fifth column says, do as much as you can whenever you can for as long as you can
You can't do much if you are in prison or dead. So, do what you can within the limits afforded to you. Survival of the ideas is key.
Well said
Posting online is pointless. It's like yelling into an airplane engine. You cannot stop a scorpion from stinging you by asking it politely.
You stomp the scorpion to death.
All posting online does is make you feel like you've done something so you can smugly go back to watching whatever baking show you watch. If you don't believe in something enough to die for it, stop pretending that you do.
All the greatest people in history died for their causes. Don't pretend you're close to them.
No. Screw that doomer nonsense. Time for nonviolent confrontation. Ghandi, MLK, and the Act Up protestors of the AIDS crisis would want us to fight back with stubborn, nonviolent resistance.
We don't need a guiding messiah figure, or any special education. We just need numbers and a willingness to risk a few days in jail.
The path is clear.
@@anjetto1 did you just tell him to kill himself
Thanks for the heads up in Moore vs Harper. If the SC rules that State legislatures can do such things I will actually look in to moving. I know people say this a lot as hyperbole, but once states can literally ignore the will of the people, there is nothing left but slow decay of the republic to either war or authoritarianism.
Listen, if you're going to move out of country you need to get the process started now. I'm looking at potentially years to get into Canada IF they let me in. You need to have money or a job in a certain sector of the economy for most governments to want you. For Canada I have to take an expensive English language test even though I'm a native speaker. Additionally, it can take a few months just to get a passport.
This immigrating thing is no joke. If you're serious, start now so you can be out by the time everything goes to complete shit in 10-20 years.
One of the Things I always appreciate about what you make is that you take care not to say that anything is irrevocable. You make sure to give people hope about the future even in the difficult and scary moments.
Brazil has already been through this stage, currently brazil is in the middle of the process of preparation for a fascist coup, Bolsonaro has already bribed the military complex, the army, the police, the Brazilian intelligence agency and the ruralist oligarchs. He has already armed his diehard followers with the gigantic loosening of gun control laws, the police (which is already loyal to him) has refused to enlarge the security of his political rival Lula (social democrat) against assasination attempts on campaign. He also gives presidential pardons to every member of his party or everyone who is an influential supporter. He has a huge disinformation network (many times greater than Trump's), many groups have recently have given orders to make his followers to wear military uniforms to confuse any resisting police force and make them shoot at either civilians who are mistaken for soldiers of the coup, or soldiers who are mistaken by criminally behaving civilians, when this happens he will get a justification for doing the coup by the narrative of police targetting members of the right wing (He will say something on likes of " These Communist supporting policemen are killing our people! ").
Sorry if my english is bad, my main language is portuguese.
Your English is great! Do you want a language exchange partner?
For whatever it's worth, your English is fine and a lot of people watching this channel at least have an idea about how bad things are with Brazil and would be giving it much more attention if it were not for the treat of the world superpower falling to fascism...(and the knowledge that the most effective thing we Americans can probably do for you is to try and keep the far right in our country from making things any worse in yours by propping up the fascists in yours any more than has already happened).
The broader anglophone left isn't unaware or unconcerned. We're just see the fascists we're fighting in our countries as likely supporting, if not behind the fascists in Brazil, Bolivia, and other countries especially in that area of the world (and a reluctance to encourage our country to get directly involved unless absolutely necessary as that tends to make things worse more than it makes things better, at least as far as our track record for intervention goes)
I know that's not a great answer, but it is an honest description of where things stand here in relation to what you're going through over there. Hopefully, that is useful or reassuring to you in some way.
Stay safe
Stay strong
Man, I didn't know it was that bad in Brazil.
Don't use the term "fascist". It's nothing like the ideology that Gentile wrote about.
@@tylerbozinovski427 you fascists are always desperate to avoid the stigma your ideology has earned.
"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."
- Padme Amidala, _Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge Of The Sith_
I love the point about how the beer hall putsch wasn't what started fascism since, at least as best as I can remember from my underfunded American public high school education, that's kinda how we learned it in school. Out of no where, Mr. Scary Man came in and used his magic evil powers to start WWII. Ok obviously that's a bit of an exaggeration, but truthfully the beer hall putsch and Reichstag fire were all we were taught in our history classes before starting the chapter on WWII. And I think that lends itself to a particularly strange way we talk about politics in general, at least here in contemporary America. That being the constant tendency to lean heavily into magical thinking.
I think that's why Jan 6 captured people's attention more than the constant stream of supreme court travesties rolling out for the last decade. The US Constitution is another great example where magical thinking is at play. I often jokely call the constitution "the third testament" since so many people treat the document like they're in some Christian Evangelical bible study and not basic legal studies. It's absolute insanity. I think it's partially to blame for how misinformation has become so rampant. The truth doesn't matter, only your "beliefs" matter in the "market place of free speech." It's a sort of mindset I find to be incredibly dangerous; it's how the republicans justify rolling back human rights and how the democrats sit on their hands while telling themselves that American institutions will magically save them
I think comparing the Beer Hall Putch to the 6th is valid, but people need to remember that it is more of a benchmark for the progression of fascism than a cause (and a warning to not under respond just because it was riddled with incompetence, as they usually regroup and try again if given the room to).
the vatican started fascism and invented xenophobia.
29th May 2020 insurrection never forget! Radical leftists torched DC and forced Trump into a bunker!
@@donHooligan Fascism was invented by Gentile and Mussolini. Get real.
The whole "beliefs and feelings" ride we're on is being steered strongly by both parties, and people are too tied up in petty partisan warfare to see it. :(
"History does not look kindly on the man who holds Mussolini's coat"-Ted Cruz on why he didn't want to endorse Donald Trump
"The U.S. isn't in a position as bad as weimar Germany..."
*kalm*
"Yet"
*panik*
this is so disrespectful to people in the middle east.
they might have a different opinion on USAs 8 war criminal presidents in a row.
to a poor Syrian, USA has had the same dictator for 50 years...the MIC.
55 year old straight white male here. If it didn't anger me from the pit of my stomach I would have to laugh every time I hear someone from the right complain that the white male is the most oppressed group in the US. It angers me because of the falsehood and stolen victim from people that are actually oppressed in this country. I'm not gonna lie - I thank God I can hide behind my long white facial hair and a flannel shirt with rolled up sleeves to not draw suspicion from the right wing terrorists that are pervasive in Phoenix. but at the same time have to console myself by knowing I can cross enemy lines if/when SHTF and use the way look to do damage from within
I don’t think America is experiencing a Weimar Republic moment. The U.S. is in my opinion experiencing a late Roman Republic moment. The late Roman Republic experienced political divisions and a growing divide between the rich and the poor. Rome was also founded as a democracy and had the most powerful military at the time. Yet the social divisions and constant military conquests led to the rise of Sulla and Caesar. The main reason for the rise of these figures was due to their militarist and populist views which were popular with many Romans. Many Romans viewed their system as corrupt and these populist figures exploited this. This led to many civil wars, and while I don’t see the U.S. facing many civil wars, we could see the rise of a Caesar like figure in the coming years. This is more comparable than the Weimar Republic. The Weimar Republic fell because it was a weak democracy and Germany had never been a democracy in its history. It also had very weak checks which allowed Hitler to seize power with very little opposition. Germany had also been humiliated on the world stage for losing in WW1 and went from being a great power to a very weak country facing recession that had to pay loans and reparations and was facing a recession. This is more similar to modern day Russia in my opinion. Russia who once rivaled the U.S. , was reduced to an impoverished, corrupt, and weak state that was facing recession and had never been a democracy. These conditions allowed Vladimir Putin to rise to power and violently attack his neighbors and destroy Russian democracy. So I think modern day Russia is more comparable to the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany than the U.S. Overall I think America will experience a similar decline like Rome than like the Weimar Republic.
I agree completely. America loves to compare itself to Rome, and it’s strangely apt how true the comparisons are- both were extremely colonial militaristic republics (with heavy influence/control by oligarchs, though arguably much less so in the US’s case, especially during times like the Progressive Era). From its role as self-appointed world police to its Rome-like tendency to create imagined grievances that justify any given war.
I also agree with your identification of Russia closer to Weimar, given the greater level of turmoil and desperate drive for “rejuvenation” of an old national spirit.
"Both countries were or are faced with a form of judicial despotism by a supreme court immune from democratic accountability."
YES! I have been saying this for YEARS. The Court is a non-elected body of oligarchs who wields supreme executive power by simply "reinterpreting" the Constitution. You can thank Taft for that, the SC didn't use to have this kind of power.
The Ukronazis are losing. The West is losing too. Game over brother.
I'm not saying the format is good or the best we can do, but devil's advocate for a second, it would not be this much of a mess if we had not allowed the corruption of the other 2 branches of government to fester for so many decades.
The idea of an impartial judiciary is a myth, but the idea was that by having the appointments be spread out over so many administrations over such a long period of time, the biases should (at least in theory) even each other out (at least in so far as they approach a long-term consensus).
If the other branches of government were functioning, it wouldn't be packed so heavily for the far right and if one judge was a bit of a problem they could be overruled/impeached.
A huge problem with our systems is that the founders (being themselves, violent revolutionaries) didn't put in safeguards for a lot of things because they assumed that beyond a certain point (which we passed quite a while ago) people wouldn't be trying to solve things legalistically.
Or put in simpler terms, they didn't put procedures in place for most of what we're dealing with now because they assumed from their own biases that people would be shooting each other before it ever got to this point.
The judiciary being composed by an unelected elite its essential part, in anyplace of the world. But to reinterpret the Constitution according to the interests of each party is to create a gigantic legal chaos.
Imagine thinking that the American Supreme Court is right wing when they are actively murdering the American people through dictatorial gay marriage.
Glad to know that Rich Evans, of RLM fame, is also apparently a historian of the Weimar Republic. Good to have you back.
Strange that he has so much to say about the Weimar Republic and seemingly so little to say about Wisconsin
The sexiest historian alive
I just subbed today after watching 2 of your vids and I thought "hey, he didnt post in 9 months, I hope he didnt give up yt" and here you are. Thanx for the great content.
We shall hold you as herald then, please keep our king posting 🙏🙏🙏
He is posting the podcast on his second channel constantly, as it seems
@@davitdavid7165 Yeah I saw the second channel after writing the comment.
@@Badmanpuntbaxter I will 🙏🙏
yeah crazy coincidence, just yesterday i was just looking to see if his channel was still here
I have been wondering if you would ever make a video on Poland. It wouldn't matter to me if you want to talk about the history more or the current politics, but I will say this - after all the corruption, democratic backsliding and reactionary policies, PiS and SP are slowly losing their grip on power and poll averages suggest a hung parliament at best for them and a ruling coalition of democrat opposition parties at worst (again, for them).
Depressing, isn't it?
At the same time, it's gonna be interesting (albeit quite terrifying) to observe from the outside because we are witnessing a peculiar dynamic where the political momentum is headed into a different direction than the popular demographic one.
Politics are becoming more "conservative" (though that word doesn't really count because conservativism should be opposition to change, rather than changing a whole lot of things. It's more of a right-wing illiberal push), more restrictive, less federalistic and more oligarchic whereas in the younger generations and even some older ones, there's a movement towards more progressive, more liberal, more federalistic and more socialist opinions.
The way I see it there's two possible outcomes:
1: The socio-demographic dynamics manage to exert enough force to change the political course
2: Conflict continues to mount until a breaking point is reached, which could result in all sorts of things
Nope, It's awesome. Liberty shall triumph. Death to socialism!
So wish I wasn't too poor to join the patreon. Absolutely love your content. Knowing history is the best way to keep it From repeating.
I think it was Corey Robin who said, near the beginning of Trump's presidency, that he didn't worry too much about Trump because he kept trying to do horrible things unilaterally, outside of US institutions. In fact, most of the horrible stuff done historically in the US was through the institutions and if Trump had worked with them more he might have been more successful. It seems like the Roe vs Wade verdict is far more scary for this exact reason: the power of existing institutions in the US could erode so many gains without firing a shot, electing a demagogue, or anything remotely dramatic.
Just the title of this video is anxiety inducing. We all know its coming and we aren't sure if we can stop it. It's existentially terrifying.
HAHAHAHAHA
You don't have to stop it. It will make everything better.
@@weareeverywhere8851 you live in Alabama, the blue states can just cut off subsidies and all of you would starve lmao
Yeah, I’m really scared too.
@@chumincoomim they should.
I think you’re mostly spot on, but I do think you’re drastically underestimating how many Americans are just out right authoritarian and have completely given up on democracy.
Yeah, this video is built on the hypothesis that Americans are good people who don't want to live in a theocracy.
But it's wrong, because I've lived here for 20 years and white yanks are a single afternoon away from ditching their klan hoods and jumping into an SS uniform. They don't do anything about fascism because they all WANT fascism.
I just want a government like China has. Is that too much to ask for?
@@jarekkish5515 yes. yes it is
Barely any
@@jarekkish5515 what the fuck kind of tankie copium are you huffing? Why would you want an authoritarian state capitalist government?
People have been calling American conservatives fascists since the 1960s.
I think at this point, we have to admit that those who called them fascist in the past were correct. They did in fact turn out to be fascist.
I was one of those who accused Republicans of being fascist during the Bush administration while people were demanding concentration camps for Muslims, although in the 1980s, I thought those who accused conservatives of being fascist were fringe extremists. I now concede that those who accused them of being fascist during the Vietnam debates during the 60s and 70s were ultimately proven correct.
America has already been through its "Weimar moment."
January 6 was our beer hall putsch. Unless a large number of people get long prison sentences for their role in the coup, America is about ten years away from a fascist takeover of our government.
The US imperium is the 4th Reich, NATO was a literal n@zi organization from the start
I don't think anyone calling others fascists, know what fascism actually is. It's actually a pretty left wing ideology and isn't even racist. People confuse NS with fascism all the time.
@@weareeverywhere8851 okay mr 88 👍
@@weareeverywhere8851 not really.
@@weareeverywhere8851 Uhuh
Regarding the current invasion of Ukraine, I would say that the same comparison would apply to post-USSR Russia. There was no effort to do a "de-Sovietization" of the country. The former KGB - who was essentialy the main "factory" of hardliners - largely remained unscathed, and that allowed them to retake power through Putin, who as the years have gone by, has turned Russia into a "securocracy" with fascistic elements, by nepotistically puting many of his FSB buddies in positions of power.
When I say "hardliners", I don´t mean necessarly people who were hard into the state ideology of the USSR, but "hardliners" in the sense that they oppossed any kind of reforms and wanted the country to remain an authoritarian hellhole with jingoistic tendencies, regardless of who ruled the country (the CPSU, a Tsar or a regular fascist regime, which I would argue is what we have now in 2022´s Russia).
Thanks so much for this history and political context! Historical comparisons are made all the time in politics, but it's often hard to know which are actually appropriate. Getting to hear from someone with actual historical knowledge is super beneficial for our discourse!
I appreciate you putting this in a way that I can understand & now I have a better handle on what's going on in The States.
Thanks for this Dan. I’ve became very interested in the history of Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism for the last 5 years. I started off reading to calm my nerves but now I’m scared. Iceberg straight ahead!
These right wing nuts are just going to step up to fight and get smashed like they always do. The right can't fight.
straight ahead?
60 million indigenous people is where Adolph learned to do what he did...
you've had 8 war criminal presidents in a row, MurKKKan.
close GITMO today, fashboi.
"Rise of Nazism." Dude the Nazis have been dead for 77 years now. Idk ANYONE who praises Nazis, even on the right. Meanwhile I see a lot of apologists for communism.
@@tylerbozinovski427 ...If you can't find anyone on the right praising Nazis you're not looking.
@@HawkBando2112 Seriously lol. Go on Twitter and browse for like 5 minutes on any news post and you're guaranteed to see at least one weeb or greek statue profile picture directly advocating for white nationalism/nazism. They're more common than what people think because social media sites generally do a good job these days at banning them and their groups quickly. These dangerous morons are everywhere and more and more will open up with their beliefs as this shit becomes more acceptable.
Very glad I listened to this -- I feel much more aware. Horrifying to hear about that upcoming case.
I recently read The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, and I realized while reading about the lead up to both world wars that the world right now is actually very politically unstable -- this was the week with the UK resignations, assassination of Abe, and more. I was at my grandparents' and my grandmother said it was concerning that a shooter and been shot himself -- "vigilantism," she said. I hadn't considered it before, but I realized how people taking things into their own hands with guns is a sign that things have gone steeply downhill. ---All this is to say that basically, in the book, I was surprised by how many assassinations there were, realized that was a sign of the political instability, and then looked out at the world today and felt fear.
I hope to spend some time evaluating this podcast. Thanks for posting it. You're terrific!
I'm so glad you posted this here! This episode and the ones telling the story of the Vanguardists vs Socdems are something everyone should hear. Like seriously the whole series should be required reading (or listening?) for anyone studying that period of history.
the Illinois gerrymander literally looks like a giant Gash through the heart of the State.
Listened to the podcast an hour ago a wondered why it wasn’t showing up on the iron dice yt feed. Here you are in the three arrows feed. Well done!
So happy to see you posting a new video! I was just wondering if it would ever happen again
If January 6th had succeeded, Democrats would have made statements about how outrageous this all is, and how everybody needs to get out to vote.
Possibly at first, but also a lot of wealthier Democrats, white Democrats, and elected Democrats would have simply sworn fealty to Trump so as to avoid being physically lynched.
When the world needed him most, he returned!
When we needed him most, the King returned
For real though, I've been loving (if that's the right word? It can be kind of a distressing listen) The Iron Dice. In the US, basically all we're taught about the Weimar period is "The treaty of Versaille was unfair -> hyperinflation -> aggrieved Germans vote for Hitler," which not only leaves out a lot of details, it's a very misleading narrative that is flat out wrong in my opinion, but widely believed in the US because of gaps in our education system. I don't think I was even taught about the revolutionary toppling of the monarchy in school, all the focus was on Wilson's 14 points and the decisions of other victorious powers.
Learning more about the period has been really eye opening.
Edit: Also, sorry for referring to you in monarchist terms in the comments on a podcast about Democracy, lol
interestingly i find people dont realise fearmongering of the TOV was done deliberetly by the legacy media establishment to sow dissent in weimar, so TOV being a major cause is acc quite heavily disputed, the treatise were harsh yes, but it was significantly less extreme than the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which saw the nascent soviet union lose a significant area of territory to germany.
they renounced finland (whos independence at this time was recognised) as well as several more western territories that fit in the agricultural area the facists of the day used to espouse ideas of a "greater germany" - facism while formalised by mussolinni, should not be put into a neat tidy timeline of beggining with him, mussolinni merely capitalised on popular iconography, and thats key, facism can be used to describe the catalysts that lead to its creation, this includes ideas that become integral to that particular facsist states desired status qou - (see that here in the fight for trans rights worldwide).
so really the TOV being harsh was part of the punishment of that german imperialist legacy, early weimar was hardly squeaky clean with how particularly it cosied up with facists to crush communism (btw i think this centrism leading to facism as a societal pitfall being a thing comes from mussolinis predecesor giovanni giolitti, who established appeasing far right ideology to be tolerated)
hope this potentially elaborated on information you already new, i dont know if it makes much sense, i wrote it stoned
@@Alex-nr6cv "Write stoned, edit sober" -Ernest Hemingweed
But yeah, I hear you. I'm not at all familiar with the terms of the USSR's exit from WWI, but that is a fascinating comparison, since they two parallel endings to the same war that both began with a revolution but had radically different outcomes.
@@sammosaurusrex yeah, I know way too much about Weimar because I moved schools a lot and literally did german history from 1911 through 87 for essentially 5 years, focussing a lot on Weimar, once you spot how it happened there, you can see it coming here
they also never go over the fact that hitler was elected with like 30% of the vote and the working class actually hated him
Also widely believed cause so many Americans just plain hate democracy
I appreciate you used carlson as an example of what the far right is doing. No caveats, just straight up far right
We're past the need for caveats with Carlson. That dude is an actual fascist.
Yes. And he is the good guy. Unabashedly.
And missed the chance to say that Carlson was clueless when he said "Weimar", instead tried to interpret how he might have meant it.... ;-) ;-) ;-)
@@cyphermasq7870Keep telling yourself that. In your ideal world, one day you will not be in the in-group.
Came here on October 2, after seeing the cases the US supreme court had before it.
Yay! He's back! I'm Dutch. *waves* Can you see me? I'm waving right now!
Thanks, your perspective is amazing. Going to look at Harper v. Moore in greater detail and share what I find.
Yep, been saying this for like a year now…. Finally I can link this video to people, thank you 🙏
I naively thought this was a fasc RUclips, but then did my research on the three arrows, and I’m glad I did. Keep up the good work. And thanks for this long form content
The symbol is that of the iron front socialists. But I suppose yanks aren't taught history so they wouldn't know. Good on you for doing research though
you are probably a reactionary fascist...your comment is so funny.
do you support the D/R duopoly?
Important news is that just a few days ago the Conservative majority Supreme Court decided in 6-3 decision to reject the Independant State Legislature Theory.
You shouldn't get too excited as it decided to forbid student debt relief
The Weimar German Reich was a totally different country than the US today, but it shows how important it is that the people hold their representatives accountable for democratic values. When politicians don’t have to worry about publish outrage when they’re messing with democratic institutions, who’s going to stop them from doing whatever they want?
60 million indigenous is 10X worse than what Adolph did, racist.
he learned from USA.
Excellent video! Thank you for this, I learned a lot!
I have never clicked a notification so fast… glad to see another video from you dude. Hope you’re well
THERE IS A PODCAST! And here I have been starving for 3A content and its been avalable there the entire time. My eyes are open, my headphones are on and my que is full of Iron Dice :D
Looking forward to your take on Brazil’s January 6th moment.
Great to hear from you comrade! ❤️
nothing will change without removal of infinite money from politics, as well as holding people in power accountable for their open corruption.
Cap donations at $500 per year for each registered voter. Politicians have to appeal to the public at large rather than just doing whatever rich donors want.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 yup. nothing will change unless we do this. especially when there is such a positive correlation between money spent on campaign and winning seats.
Any word on the UK's descent into a dictatorship?
Well Boris did agree to resign in the end. It was looking a little dicy for a minute there. But ultimately the Queen can get rid of the PM if parliament supports someone else. The fact that could theoretically happen means it never has to actually happen because just the threat of it is enough. No one wants to be the first PM to get fired by the Queen.
@@adrianthoroughgood1191 Johnson may be gone but Liz Truss is going to carry the same sort of dictatorial politics and overriding the law wherever possible. Orban's Hungary 2.0
So glad I found this channel! I've come to similar conclusions regarding the deadlock of our our political and social institutions.
What happened in 1918 in Germany and what was happening in Europe since before 1905?
@@apuapustaja1958 revolution, my friend ✊
@@r.w.bottorff7735 What is the difference between Mass Murder and Mass Murder?
@@apuapustaja1958 Germany's 1918 socialist revolution was virtually bloodless, the REACTION to it was indeed mass murder, and set the stage for the Nazis. You are not going to draw me into a false equivalence. Not all revolution must be bloody. I am merely suggesting that in America, our political parties seem referential to that time and place. I'm talking about the German socialist movement, not the Bolsheviks, who were mass murderers, as you say.
@@r.w.bottorff7735this creep commented the same shit everywhere here, spare your breath Genosse.
Always love me a new Dan Arrows video. Cheers!
Listened to the podcast and here I am listening to it again on youtube a few days later.
TLDW: The US isn't in quite as bad a shape as Weimar, but that doesn't really mean that Americans should wait until that is the case.
I think one thing that a lot of people never talk about when it comes to America's descent into fascism is that we had a fascist State on domestic soil relatively recently in our history.
While a lot of people might not consider it a fascist state, if we're working on the "palengenetic ultra nationalism" definition, I would argue that the Confederate States of America fit it to a T. Arguably, American fascism predates fascism in Europe, and considering how much the Nazis were influenced by America's treatment of the natives when it came to ideas like leibisbraum (spelling?), We basically created the template for it.
Considering the CSA was never really removed from power due to the failure of reconstruction, and a lot of it's legal systems existed well into the late 20th century and still to the modern day, I would argue that America isn't really seeing a new fascist movement, but rather one that has always existed gaining popularity once again due to economic and social problems.
The current fascist movement in the United States is even using the same systems as the previous one, using "states rights" policy to support the will of the people, using the electoral college to hold power even when they are the minority position, and if the new abortion law in Georgia is anything to go by, they might even plan to start stacking their population data with unborn non-voters (which is an aspect of that law that I feel not enough people are talking about).
I think the character of American fascism is preserving democracy, but ONLY for white male landowners as the founding fathers intended, and I think you see this with a lot of the most notable American fascists being middle and upper middle class white men.
"they might even plan to start stacking their population data with unborn non-voters"
do you have a source for this? I wanna read up more cos this sounds stupidly horrifying (and also horrifyingly stupid in terms of data cleanliness)
America is already a fascist state with a very thin veneer of democracy.
It will help you understand things much better once you come to this realization.
Lebensraum = Life´s room (aka living space)
Good to have you back Dan, very much enjoy your history/current insanity commentary )
Thank you! This was awesome!
Excellent, thought-provoking podcast, as usual, Dan. As a German I've read a lot about this period; nevertheless, I learned from it.
"weimar moment" was not the phrase i expected , but definitely the one i needed
Holocaustianity is AntiWhite.
Fantastic to see more Three Arrows content!
had no idea that you had a podcast! This is great stuff! I'm really into political and historical podcasts you sir have a new listener!
The "Trump is a fascist" and "the GOP are like the nazis" might've been regurgitated so much that everyone even remotely left leaning are sick of pointing out the obvious, but it isn't something that can be repeated enough. Until they are no longer a threat, getting people to realize how much of a threat he is is necessary.
Great video, btw =)
you voted for the guy who helped Bush and Obama kill, maim or make homeless millions of people in the Middle East?
Cuckservatives arent fascist or nazis
Yea....it been annoying telling people that trump isn't trumpism. And this mistake is being really shown with trump being possibly hit by the FBI and liberals thinking that is it.
Agreed, not even the federal government can stop us.
”History will not look kindly on the man who held Mussolini’s coat” - Ted Cruz
Didn't even know you had a podcast. Gonna have to check that out 💯
Great content. Keep it coming!
I agree with your assessment. I think people look at history for a direct roadmap to our future, but the reality is much more granular. You don't get a one to one comparison.
My favorite German RUclipsr making his annual appearance. Just messing but keep up the good work, America is going through some stuff right now.
Great content, I struggle to articulate this to friends and in discussion
Thank you! So well said!
This is precisely how I have been viewing politics and especially the way in which (fascist) totalitarian states take shape. The groundwork has to be done in a way where it is essentially somewhat invisible or obscured - not that it cannot be observed, but more so simply that it is not quite as evident as, for instance, the bigger "news" items and discussions like whether Donald Trump is a nazi. It is often the people that aren't quite at the forefront who are the most dangerous and the most powerful. They pull strings and know very well what they're doing - or are simply working to serve themselves and their allies.
While most people are distracted by more flashy developments and the day-to-day issues, these larger scale issues that cover decades of slow progression into a dangerous and anti-democratic direction are easily missed or forgotten.
Thank you for covering Moore v Harper. I agree, it's a huge deal.
So basically the USA is just like Spain, Argentina, and Mexico without any of the senses to recognize it. I mean in Spain at least in Catalonia they openly talk about how conservative the court is. Argentina is going to judge the court and Mexico is trying to sort out its issues with a series of compromises.
The USA hasn't realized this I think. I think the best way to deal with the courts is by rotating the court every 13 years with 13 judges from 13 states, either that or just abolish the court and let the Senate do the whole judicial review thing.