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But it all feels so brittle- the Nazi regime came after a decade-long low grade civil war, and a bombing of the Parliament building. This...isn't that.

I speculate it has to do with the size of the population that's active vs inactive in comparison to weimar Germany to nazi Germany and the current USA. The U.S is still coasting off of the inertia of it's cold war victory and the golden post-soviet years and it's citizenry essentially driven into the slumber of class unconsciousness. The steady march of time in conjunction with decaying material conditions in conjunction with the agitating from ideologues at the extremes has slowly chewed away from both ends of the proverbial pie of the unconscious masses. Where Weimar Germany was is not anywhere near where the U.S is today. The U.S isn't a bitter loser of a war where its own soldiers turned their guns on the State to force an end of their slaughter, nor is its economic situation spiraling out of control and driving the workers out of their jobs and into breadlines. We're essentially at a strange stage where both sides have to continue decisively agitating and propagating their causes but can't openly act violently against each other without riling up the unconscious masses against them. Thats why I think the reactionaries are driving so hard to make every murderer that catches the eyes of America into a communist terrorist because it allows them to portray themselves as victims suffering from aggression from the the unconscious masses who've more or less been coasting through life completely unaware of the political war that's happening right now.

The right holds the keys to the most advanced surveillance panopticon and regime of police repression in world history (in terms of scale and technology, perhaps not in intensity), but what they sorely lack is the respect and fear of their enemies. A properly terrorized opposition wouldn't grave dance their martyrs like this. It is a situation which cannot be allowed to continue, one way or another.