moksha wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:33 am
Mormons need an alternative to embracing fascism.
Why? they went along with fascism when Hitler was taking over Germany and still when he was sending Jews to the gas chambers. They just keep their mouths shut and don’t stand up and call evil what it is. Easier to just go along approving of whatever government wants to do, not suggesting that one leader might be a bad choice to vote for, but talking like they support him and sending the MoTab to sing at his inauguration, and never once speaking out about the evil he is committing.
If people do not learn from “Never Forget” written at the entrance to a former concentration camp, then, yeah, they happily embrace fascism.
When hubby and I lived in West Berlin before the wall came down, we got to talk to Germans who had lived through Hitler coming to power. They wanted so badly to explain *why* they voted for fascism, to teach the world how to keep it from happening again. The first steps, before the book burnings, before their neighbors started disappearing, before it started acting like fascism. At the first, they only wanted food on the table, and Hitler gave them hope of making Germany great again.
When Trump picked THAT as his slogan and people didn’t recognize it, when I couldn’t explain that is exactly Hitler’s slogan. People just got angry that I dared point out what I saw, BECAUSE I used to talk to real people, real people who had been through it all before, because I have visited the museum at the old concentration camps, because my father was at Normandy and watched his buddies drown in 18 foot water because the boats couldn’t get near the beach to unload the men. Stupid, stupid people who refuse to remember, not the end of fascism in Germany, but the beginning. Oh, we are way past the beginning. The biggest difference was Hitler was a very smart dictator and Trump is an idiot. Not necessarily a good difference in today’s nuclear world.
