alt Hacker NewsThis idea that voting "far right" will bring back the Third Reich and concentration camps and the like is ridiculous, and completely dishonest.
This idea that somehow it just starts with small things, and then before you know it, the Third Reich is back. Come on. It's 2026.
Today simply waving the flag of your own nation is almost a crime in some countries. We've completely lost it.
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What’s so special about 2026 that makes this impossible?
Where did anyone say they would bring back the Third Reich? That's a strawman. And you seem to have moved the goalposts too about calling them "far right."
People have a very reasonable worry that voting for people who talk about executing refugees (note the term "refugee" and not "economic migrant") might actually enact the policies they speak of.
Any association with the Third Reich reasonably comes from their use of Nazi symbolism and use of Nazi slogans.
The parallels are striking. Now the outgroup is immigrants instead of jews.
Give angry people an outgroup to vent their anger and hate, one can become the ruler of the nation. US did not get a great economy by incarcerating or throwing those few thousand immigrants out. Its economy is currently getting messed up by stupid policies. But people need an outgroup to hate and it is enough for the right wings to get to power.
> This idea that somehow it just starts with small things, and then before you know it, the Third Reich is back. Come on. It's 2026.
And in 2026 we see the state of US going exactly in that direction. Humans are pretty predictable and something similar to Third Reich will happen before you know it. "This time will be different" is hope. Not a given.
The US is rounding up foreigners/brown people right now and incarcerating them under deplorable conditions.