You know, I've always had a passing 'interest' in the rise of the Third Reich, as in 'how in hell could that have ever happened?'. I understand the socio-economic reasons, but most of the time I've been a bit, I don't know, incredulous. I mean, I know it happened (obviously) but since it happened before I was born there was always a bit of 'non-reality' about it, if that makes sense. Along with that feeling was the feeling that it could never happen again, not in the 'civilized world'. It could only happen somewhere 'else'.
But now I feel I'm really seeing it happen again. I don't think it'll end up in a World War, just that we may end up living in, if not a dictatorship, certainly an isolationist, fascist state. Everything certainly seems to point that way. And I, and others in my circle, are only half-joking when we talk about 'where we'll go' when it gets 'too bad' here.
I keep waiting for the massive pushback and it's just not happening.