Least we forget, March 1933: The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany

[berg80]

The world is rejecting Joe Biden, Macron and others that would bring us to the same you refer to.

Right wing voters in France and the US want to empower those who would become authoritarian leaders.

 

[Redheaded Stranger]

They did the same thing as the dysfunctional Weimar government, but were vilified for it.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Oh, fuck my life.

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Yeah right, just when you thought there were no more weimar comparisons.....................................queues up jaws music.

 

[surada]

Why?

Look up Nationalists of the 20th century. It's self explanatory.

 

[Redheaded Stranger]

Look up Nationalists of the 20th century. It's self explanatory.

I already know what it means. Answer the question.

 

[surada]

Right wing voters in France and the US want to empower those who would become authoritarian leaders.

https://www.cato.org/outside-articles/case-against-nationalism

The ideology is virtually impossible to separate from harmful ethnic and racial discrimination of a kind conservatives would readily condemn in other contexts.

Like socialism, with which it has important similarities, nationalism encourages harmful government control over the economy. Nationalism also poses a threat to democratic institutions. Finally, nationalist ideology is at odds with America’s foundational principles, which are based on universal natural rights, not ethnic particularism.

In crucial ways, nationalism is just socialism with different flags and more ethnic chauvinism. All Americans, but especially traditional conservatives, classical liberals, and libertarians, should recognize nationalism’s dangers and recommit instead to the core principles of our founding.

 

[surada]

I already know what it means. Answer the question.

You're not thinking.

The Dangers of Nationalism.

https://www.cato.org/outside-articles/case-against-nationalism

Excerpt.

One of the great failures of these and other definitions of nationalism is that they are purely theoretical, and bear almost no relationship to how nationalism actually exists.

Nationalists in the real world know what they’ve signed up for; intellectuals who argue otherwise are fooling themselves. Real‐world nationalism is a primitive, statist, protectionist, anti‐capitalist, xenophobic, and often ethnocentric proto‐ideology of “my tribe best, your tribe bad,” with the tribe lying at the core. Indeed, the Latin root of the word “nationalism” — natio — means “a race of people,” or “tribe.” This is how nationalism is understood in Europe and the rest of the world, and why most Americans recoil from it, preferring instead to think of nationalism as a form of “super patriotism” or assume that the terms “nation” and “country” are synonyms.

At root, nationalism is an ideology of group rights that denigrates individualism in favor of an abstraction called “the nation.” Its foundational principle is that government exists primarily to protect the culture and interests of the nation, or its dominant group.

This implies that government can use its authority to protect the national culture against potential dangers — including other domestic groups and the potential spread of their cultures. To promote the dominant group, government must have the power to act assertively on its behalf, which necessarily means constraining others.