Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Why did People vote for Hitler?" video.

It's wrong to dismiss the power of vague promises. Politicians have a habit of making them and the ones who lay out a specific plan tend to lose because it paints them into corners and gives their opponents a platform to pick apart. Roosevelt was extremely vague about what his economic plans were in 1932 and he won in a landslide. Why? Because voters get more riled up about voting against something or someone than they do about voting for something or someone. Hitler, or someone like him, was inevitable because the idea that Germany had been betrayed and was being held down had been ingrained into the national psyche. German voters didn't have a crystal ball and it's always easier to see warning signs after an event occurs than before they happen. But the real lesson from Nazi Germany is that people will most always sacrifice freedom for security. COVID proved that rule is still valid. I believe the 2030s will be similar to the 1930s but I'm afraid the courage of men will fail this time around even more spectacularly than it did then. The beaches have been sufficiently softened and notions about liberty and traditional values are seen as arcane and mocked as relics of the past. The progressive utopia being pushed by the current crop of globalist elites has no room for such antiquated ideas and the infrastructure for dealing with subversives is already up and running. Free speech is hate speech and misinformation. Christian worship is white nationalism. Up is down, truth is subjective, morality is relative. But we have our creature comforts. And as long as we have those we are less apt to give a damn one way or another what happens to our neighbor. While we were busy looking out for 1984 they slipped a Brave New World in on us. And not too many want to take that red pill. Old republics never die, they just fade away.
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