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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2655651" data-attributes="member: 56035">i feel like its always better to let an expert give his advice:<a href="http://international.sueddeutsche.de/post/157058066625/we-have-at-most-a-year-to-defend-american" target="_blank">“We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less“</a>Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of numerous books of European history, including „Bloodlands“ and „Black Earth“.&nbsp; His most recent book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century“,Anyway, I didn’t actually compare Trump to Hitler, I didn’t use these two names. What I did was to write a very short history of the rise of Adolf Hitler to power without using his name, which might allow Americans to recognize certain similarities to the moment they themselves were living through. I know that these comparisons are a national taboo in Germany, but at the moment its rather important that Germans be generous with their history and help others to learn how republics collapse. Most&nbsp; Americans are exceptionalists, we think we live outside of history. Americans tend to think: “We have freedom because we love freedom, we love freedom because we are free.”&nbsp; It is a bit circular and doesn’t acknowledge the historical structures that can favor or weaken democratic republics.&nbsp; We don’t realize how similar our predicaments are to those of other people.*******at the end of the chris hedges interview i posted earlier today, they talked about how fast we can fall into authoritarianism.i was thinking the article by the yale professor is so bad it sounds like something an amateur conspiracy theorist would write, not someone from one of the top schools in the country.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2655651, member: 56035"] i feel like its always better to let an expert give his advice: [URL='http://international.sueddeutsche.de/post/157058066625/we-have-at-most-a-year-to-defend-american']“We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less“[/URL] Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of numerous books of European history, including „Bloodlands“ and „Black Earth“. His most recent book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century“, Anyway, I didn’t actually compare Trump to Hitler, [B]I didn’t use these two names. What I did was to write a very short history of the rise of Adolf Hitler to power without using his name, which might allow Americans to recognize certain similarities to the moment they themselves were living through.[/B] I know that these comparisons are a national taboo in Germany, but at the moment its rather important that Germans be generous with their history and help others to learn how republics collapse. Most Americans are exceptionalists, we think we live outside of history. Americans tend to think: “We have freedom because we love freedom, we love freedom because we are free.” It is a bit circular and doesn’t acknowledge the historical structures that can favor or weaken democratic republics. We don’t realize how similar our predicaments are to those of other people. ******* at the end of the chris hedges interview i posted earlier today, they talked about how fast we can fall into authoritarianism. i was thinking the article by the yale professor is so bad it sounds like something an amateur conspiracy theorist would write, not someone from one of the top schools in the country. [/QUOTE]

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