Bloody excellent post @Seqkat.
Beautifully put.
With your permission I am going to copy it, and use it whenever someone uses the line "this isn't Nazi Germany".
And for posterity and in case people missed it, I am going to repost itin bold on this thread, and I hope all those who see nothing wrong with this read it and think a little on it, please?
I really worry about the "This is not Nazi Germany, no one's going to start locking up disabled campaigners all of a sudden" rhetoric. It seems as though the way we teach history has given some people the impression that the Nazis ran on a "kill all the Jews!" Platform - so as long as we don't vote for the "Kill all the Jews!" party, it could never happen again. Easy, obvious solution!
But of course they did not, they ran (among other things) on policies of national sovereignty, greater home security, and improved industry. Once they were elected, they didn't suddenly begin programmes of mass murder, it happened incrementally, with legally passed restrictions to particular rights, benefits and freedoms which were less objectionable. Protests against these restrictions were an excellent excuse to begin clamping down, with bonus convenient scapegoats (a process which plenty of ordinary Germans bought into too), and once that becomes normalised and legalised, you can extend the scope and results. This kind of thing never happens all at once - it would be far far easier to guard against if it did. It's a process of multiple steps, and it's absolutely right to recognise here the potential for one of those steps being taken and push back NOW with our votes and voices while we still have them, rather than waiting to see how far down this path we get. Flattening out that process into just an easy Nazi vs not Nazi choice where we avoid voting for the mass murder party is a trap based on learning an over simplified version of the complexities of history and society.