Comment by rsynnott
16 hours ago
> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it.
This is... a pretty confused view of history, really. Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, and consolidated power over the next year. At this point there was a lot of criticism of the regime, both internal and external. Things got rapidly worse after, of course, but there certainly was a period where the Nazis were in power but that there was public criticism.
Even as late as 1938, there was significant public discontent RE Kristallnacht in particular.
>but that there was public criticism
Every political party had public criticism before they could gain absolute power to silence that criticism.
Hitler had absolute power by 1934. Public dissent wasn't really entirely quashed until the war.
Exactly. You're disproving your own argument now.
How so? When I said "every political party" meaning including the ones under the liberal democratic umbrella.
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