Sound familiar?

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A country which finds itself on the verge of total economic collapse, with astronomical unemployment rates, a major health care crisis, a damaged infrastructor, and people losing their homes and jobs seemingly en masse as a result of all this and factors that seem utterly out of their control. A country that has been attacked by enemies that hate it. Enemies that hate everything about it--its language, its clothes, its food, its equality of people and sexes, and its religion. Enemies that want us to go to hell so they can be in paradise, and who will stop at nothing to undermine our way of life in every imaginable way. A country whose leaders are brave enough and strong enough to do whatever it takes to root out the enemy; checking in on phone calls, conversations, and the places where those associated with the enemies' religion live and worship, plotting our destruction; always on the lookout for suspicious activity, terrorism, and threats to national security. The only way we can get rid of this enemy is to wipe these terrorists from the face of the earth. Everything about them is evil and vile and opposed to everything good and decent about our lives, our country, and our god. Only by killing them all can we ever hope to restore our country to its former glory, and return to a time before the economy went bad; before health care issues and unemployment rates shot up; before we lost our lives to an all out attack. We must go to war against them to the end; its the only hope--the very safety of the world is at stake, because they are just as affected by all this as we are, and if they aren't with us, then they must be with our enemies. Sound familiar? It should, and not because I'm talking about the present day. I'm talking about pre-Nazi Germany when a man named Adolf Hitler first came into power. He used the socio-economic state of Germany after losing World War I to gain sympathy from the German people, and then singled out the Jewish people as a scapegoat. In this way, Hitler justified the creation of the Gestapo, the SS, the Nazi occupation, and the Holocaust. Thousands of innocent men, women, and children were ruthlessly slaughtered in the name of these lies as the Nazis strove for all out genocide. It is truly frightening what people can allow themselves to believe and justify in the name of god and country, and Nazi Germany is one of the most powerful and important examples in recent history. And we should all know what they say about that--"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."