Slow Drip Demoralization and Propaganda Did this
Look around you. The american left is proving that "the Big Lie" is an effective tool in swaying public opinion towards falsities. It's an effective tool to win over people's hearts and minds, despite the facts, irrespective of how widely availalble they are (they have the same Internet we have,. which is a level playing field)
The US left. RIGHT NOW. Is looking almost identical to the pre-nazi german underclass. Disenfranchised by Industry and anarchocorporatists, while being fed--inundated by magical thinking, occultism in the context of an ever-increasing Godlessnesss, Atheism, nihilism--at the time of the early 1910s germany, because of the dark german philosophers.....today in America, because of NETFLIX and growing anti-Christian, anti-FAMILY (attack the father via feminism) sentiment
Look around you
The left is the pre Nazi party. They have all the same behaviors. We've reached "Peak Projection" in the "Party of Projection" when they call Trump supporters "Fascists"
IN fact they don't even know what that means, because if they did and if they were honest, they'd realize that THEY are the fascista
The party of the CIA
Useful idiots, tools, mouthpieces and parrots of the mainstream CIA run mockingbird media talking points and narratives; fulfilling the overall strategy of the perennial war complex and globalism generally--leading to a vast, technomanaged, cybersteered, low information, low choice, opportunity-limited, technoneofeudalist underclass in a unipolar government simulation of reality (Orwellianism)
Another American (I'm assuming) that doesn't understand Fascism...
The first thing to know is this: how you vote - that is - your politics, is determined by your personality. And your personality is extremely heritable from your parents. Culture is the flower, biology is the root. (Democrats understand this, that's why they're so keen to replace you with Latinos).
So, how did Germany turn Fascist? Well, their personalities didn't change, so their politics didn't change. That's the key to understanding what happened. They didn't get really really angry and suddenly become far-right in their politics. Fascism, despite what the lying press tells you, is NOT a Far-Right position. Nor is it a Far-Left position. It is not socialism as a pathway to communism. It is socialism with a (mostly) free-market economy, individual freedoms, private property and moralistic constitution. This combination of Far-Left and Right positions makes it a broadly Centrist position.
When the NSDAP seized power, lots of people were angry and afraid, but they weren't organised. The magic/danger of Fascism is that it works a lot like democracy, except without the voting. Day to day life doesn't change. You get up, and go to work as normal. So the anger and fear dissipated rapidly in Germany as conditions improved. The majority of people really don't care who's ruling over them as long they have personal freedoms and the trains run on time. Poltiically, the majority of people are centrists. The resistance that did organise (Far-Left and right) was quickly detected and dissolved by the Gestapo. The Gestapo of course, were simply the old German State Police who returned to duty and were sworn in with a new set of objectives (not the sadistic vampirish villains of Hollywood). The Brownshirts maintained order so the trained police were moved to an investigative function.
The post-WWII powers fear Fascism.. It is an existential threat to the political structures that maintain the class divisions they enjoy. The footage of cheering crowds is genuine. They weren't compelled to be there. Mussolini's State Police only made 6000 arrests in their entire existence. The fear of fascism is why the crimes of the Nazis are always conflated with fascism, instead of the experiences of Spain, Italy and Chile. It's why the definition is never made clear to people. They want people in the dark about fascism because in the right circumstances any Western nation could potentially flip that way.
Anyway, the point being, the Dems are not Fascists because they're not Centrists. They're Communists.
Edit: confused Argentina with Chile.
As an American to a German, or at least a European (based on the usage of pronouns in your comment), thank you for your insight.
In the spirit of conversation rather than disagreement, do you have any thoughts on this video about Nazism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7jlTYSeHWA
It's a lengthy watch, but the central point is that the special secret ingredient of Nazism is a proud, downtrodden population who willfully submits to their authoritarian leader in support of the collective national good.
The term 'Nazi' gets thrown around so much today in American lexicon that it has become essentially meaningless.
An honest discussion about what Nazism really was might be useful.