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That’s been my experience.

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but this all has a sickeningly familiar ring to it. New compared to the 1930s version: it's now trivially simple for grifters with social media skills to drive millions of idiots into a violent moral panic. Witness how steady progress on gay and trans rights has taken a U-turn recently using disgusting tactics that date to the 1950s. We have a high court that just torpedoed the church-state wall. I imagine Germany chortling about those kooky, harmless morons all the way to Kristallnacht.

And it's even worse. Republicans are explicitly calling for murder of Democrats, and implicitly supporting groups that advocate murdering Jews, Blacks, liberals, and anyone else who doesn't fit their White Power fantasy. Let's be clear - it's the Republican Party that's stoking this bonfire. If they are voted back into control of Congress, we can kiss Democracy goodbye.

Thank you for the reply explaining you logic. I appreciate it.

And so did Joe Manchin. You know what's going to help with inflation? STOP SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY! The Fed printed nearly 5 trillion dollars from the start of the pandemic until now. Between the CARES Act, PPP, the supplemental spending in late 2020, the ARP Act, and the infrastructure bill, the government has done another 6 trillion plus in deficit spending. The problem is that the amount of goods and services available in the economy has not increased in concert with all the extra cash which has been doled out. Lots of extra money chasing the same amount (or less) of stuff means that stuff is going to cost more. (Not to mention people throwing money at crazy shit like crypto, meme stocks, and SPACs.)

BBB would have worsened inflation because it was like two years of up-front spending funded by ten years of taxes. And the economy was already overheating while the Democrats were trying to ram BBB through, in spite of all the assurances from Powell and Yellen that inflation was merely "transitory."

Unfortunately, the only thing that's going to fix inflation now is an end to all the free money and a recession that kills off some of that demand. It sucks and it's going to be painful but you can't spend your way out of inflation.

Weimar - NAZI Germany, Russia, Communist China, Central American and South American, Africa and Asian and Middle East nations all are deeply rooted in government by the few for the few.

The ante-bellum states all were inhabited by populations and social structures that took authoritarian governance to be god given.

The likelihood of resolving the national crime of slavery might not have required a blood thirsty civil was if the southern leaders did not have the ignorance, propaganda and fealty to authority that existed in those states.

The Civil War would not have happened if the southern states were not already sufficiently organized to field an army.

Sovereign nationalist and other radicals are organizing. The Supreme Court has made it easier for them to organize. Yet the Supreme Court has also effectively authorized the entire militarization of the nation.

Can that provide the room for the radical states governments to attempt to create their own armies - despite citizens who are not radical being able to freely buy and own their own guns?

One of the stronger political and propagandistic currents is leaning toward anarchic violence by radical authoritarians.

Yet the same authoritarians are a dying breed. The major voting block, Protestant Evangelists, are loosing supporters with each year of young adults. The people who have always harbored a willingness to commit violence for ideological reasons are diminishing in numbers. They are loud but loudness does not equate to large numbers.

I see the nation closer to the tone and tenor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When the work of rebuilding the nation was required. But dissimilar to the early 19th century when most southerners felt greater fealty to their individual states.

We’ve been through worse. Evil abounds. But the good in the US is far greater.