02-04-2020, 11:10 PM
A Crisis Era begins with many possibilities, many of them horrible. Consider how long an Axis victory seemed inevitable. Consider a world in which the Axis Powers got the A-Bomb. Consider an economic meltdown leading to "world Socialist revolution". One possibility after another becomes impossible, and in the end, the result looks inevitable. For a truly horrible result for America, just go back to the rise of the KKK, the 1915 Klan having many of the characteristics of a fascist movement even before Mussolini called his movement "fascism".
Maybe Hitler could have been stopped...
Maybe Hitler could have been stopped...
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.