“I don’t follow politics”

I just read the 1200 page “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich” and besides it being written in the late 50s and published in 1960 and therefore having very gross homophobia and some irritating right-leaning liberal perspective sometimes (He literally didnt mention that capitalism is the cause of the bank crashes, especially the crash leading to the great depression that single-handedly led to the Nazi’s gaining a huge cult following. He literally implied that it was something that couldnt have been avoided. He also called the USA in the 30s as “democratic.” Not only that but as democratic as France and England which is laughable, the writer is a white American of course.)

He luckily did mention that the corporations and private industry and the centrists and the religious conservatives, etc. all supported the Nazis even knowing how authoritarian and crazy they were.

But yeah, as far as how informative it is and how in-depth it goes I still highly recommend even just the first couple hundred pages that show you exactly how the nazis rose to power. And along the way you will find SOOOO many parallels to our current situation. Only in the USA we dont even have strong trade unions and powerful social democrat and socialist parties fo back us up, we have weak-minded and corrupt neoliberals who do the bare minimum, and are not nearly willing to do anything to stop fascism.

That being said there are other checks and balances that we have that they did not. But the fact remains that we must act as a people to protect democracy and fight for labor rights because our politicians wont. We need to vote out Republicans, but thats not even close to the extent of our responsibilities. I have faith in us still!