I doubt that even one percent of those voting for West ever read Inside the Third Reich.

Only the most twisted of souls could read that book and still support Hitler.
 

I'm not one to pine for an idealized past.
But, I have to agree with those people who want to make America great again on one thing.
I yearn for the good old days,,,,,, you know, that time when all Americans could pretty much agree that Hitler was a monster, and that we should beware of ex-KGB agents.

Perhaps Tarnation is right. Only mass ignorance of history could allow someone to support Hitler and yet still win a primary. They can't actually know about the horror, and not care.
Or, could they?   

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I think that some people get so in love with the 'righteousness' of their group and consumed with hatred of the Other (Other race, other religion, Other political ideology) that they dehumanize them.
And, of course they won't get carried away like others in the past have, because they are soooo good.

I also wonder about our coarsened culture. After a generation of talk radio and cable,,,,, of Limbaugh and Coulter,,,, some people have seen that the way to get attention is to give in to the dark side, and to say outrageous things.

Unlike the past, saying outrageous things no longer disqualifies you in the eyes of others. Heck, their heroes in media have become multi-millionaires by doing it.

Here's another:

‘You are animals who disgust me’: A school board candidate’s history of racist Facebook posts

Richard Jankowski used Facebook to spew plenty of race-based vitriol — against former president Barack Obama, NBA player LeBron James or anyone supporting affirmative action — but in August 2014, as protesters poured into the streets over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Janowski boiled over.

“You g—–n animals in Missouri make me sick!” he typed in the public post originally reported by the New Jersey Globe, a political reporting site. “Another black criminal gets killed after assaulting a white cop and you pieces of s–t want justice? You are not Americans, you are animals who disgust me.”

.time to start firing bullets into these f—–g monkeys and send them to their graves.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/08/18/you-are-animals-disgust-me-a-school-board-candidates-history-of-racist-facebook-posts/?utm_term=.a5341a547e96



Of course, these hateful people are always with us. They are always going to be with us.
The question for our time is why they seem to feel so empowered to express their hate, and why they can do it with such lack of negative consequences?
Is hate on the rise?
Is the hate that's always been there just get spread more widely because of technology?

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