Like the source you posted. The law firms are part of the Department’s technocritical system. Trump first term ordered departments to act on matters. Some departments followed the technocratic goals instead of the Executive goals.
It’s called Gaslighting and they are masters of the art.
And Americans are terribly gullible. Too much Hollywood dreaming, lost touch with reality.
But it’ll come around to bite all of us, soon enough.
Germany is a special case, right? They have more cultural memory of how democracy can e used to start a fascist state. I just found out about this book.
We’ve seen this for 20 plus years now. The public statements of wanting a dictator, the claims of victimhood, the lies they call news, acting above the law. When they get in a courtroom they suddenly become docile and complicit. Courts can only rule on the merits of the case, they can’t control them once they go back out and lie again. That’s the dual state.
We could put up stronger guardrails on the President and even Congress, but they would have to vote those restrictions on themselves. Hopefully we can vote our way back to a democracy. Germany has this agency that can stop fascism before it gains enough power to end democracy, we don’t.
Didn’t Fraenkel agree that the democracy state was kept alive by the two churches who were in fact running part of the government? So, basically in today’s world, German people would have been backing Trump to get back to a democracy state.
The Normative State used a capitalism system and laws of nature where the Prerogative State used political driven laws with an ideological agenda.
American democracy pre trump all the way back to WW2 would not have prevented the rise of a fascist state in America if in the past they were experiencing the same material conditions capitalism is faced with today . However, chances of defeating it in the past would have been much higher with better organised worker parties, co operatives and institutions.
That’s a bold statement. Not sure how you could test that. Of course we stopped the Nazi party in the early 40s
Good grief quoting the GAB when American capitalism did not need fascism to help it survive at that time.
A rookie statement . The USSR made the Nazis history.
I agree that in 1940, US capitalism did not need fascism. But fascism is an ideology, and nowadays, USA are on their way to fascism, even if capitalism does not need it.
I agree that in 1940, strong workers unions and democrats from both parties would have prevented fascism in USA.
Gramsci has explained that the cultural victory precedes the political victory. The US and European fascists of nowadays have applied the lesson.
And today, many people want a conservative, authoritarian state, even in Germany.
Incidentally, WWII victory was a joint effort. URSS contributed greatly, but it was not alone. For one year, from June 1940 to June 1941 UK was almost alone.
Threat of D Day then D day helped URSS, diverting German troops.
In total, the U.S. deliveries to the USSR through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials (equivalent to $148 billion in 2023):[56] over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386[57] of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans);[58] 11,400 aircraft (of which 4,719 were Bell P-39 Airacobras, 3,414 were Douglas A-20 Havocs and 2,397 were Bell P-63 Kingcobras)[59] and 1.75 million tons of food.[60]
I don’t minimize the contribution of URSS, i just say it did not won alone.
Just a minute. Of the 13.6 million German soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured during the Second War War, 10 million ended their military careers on the eastern front
It was the USSR that liberated Berlin and Auschwitz while US corporations funded the Third Reich
-IBM
-GM,
- Kodak,
Not to mention US Senator Prescott Bush, father of former President George H Bush a key shareholder
Sorry for typos. I fixed them.
I dont see how that has anything to do with the comment you were replying to
True that URSS bore the heaviest weight, i don’t deny that. But without US help and D day, it would have been much more difficult, even if possible.
UK, US, France, and many other countries lose men.
Yes, some US companies helped Nazis, notably because opposed to New Deal.
But the facts are not contradictory.
Reality is not black and white, there are shades of grey. To understand that is part of becoming an adult.
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US corporations helped the NAZIS with the US govt looking the other way. How more black do you need to get?
“UK, US, France, and many other countries lose men.”
Whats the ratio to USSR deaths?
I will give you a clue - 419,000 Americans and 451,000 Britons were killed.
the United States and the British were fighting 10 German divisions combined. The Soviets were fighting 200”. The war was lost on the eastern front - to quote Churchill “ I have always believed and I still believe that it is the Red Army that has torn the guts out of the filthy Nazis“.
What you are doing is what we call whitewashing history. We called that selling out when you grow up to be an anti intellectual
Your facts are globally exact. What does that change to the fact that URSS did not won alone WWII and that USA transferred billions of $ worth of materials ?
About Russian losses, the truth is that tactically, the Russian army was weak and compensated by accepting to lose men, even if they made progresses.
Yes there were 58 divisions in France on the 6th of June 1944. But that was not the whole German forces in west.
After the Normandy landings and up until the end of the Ardennes offensive. Around 104 German Divisions were facing the Western Allies including Italy while nearly 200 divisions were facing the Soviets including the Balkans.
What was the driving force for US corp. dealing with the Nazis? Germany owned the only safe-haven currency and banking system in the world. Not only US corporations but US citizens were invested in German bonds for their retirement. As American citizens at home were subjected to economical depressions with the major US banks increasing wealth each time.
AI - Yes, the American central bank, the Federal Reserve (Fed), gained significant power and independence after World War II, fundamentally shaping its modern role. This shift was a direct result of ending a wartime agreement that had suppressed its authority.
We changed from having depressions to having inflationary recessions which was a better system of protecting the wealth of the middle class.
If you have time listen to Victor Davis Hanson’s podcasts about Germany and the war. Really good.
False.
German economy was bankrupting in 1930/1932 and that helped the Nazis to take power.
When the Nazis came to power, they applied a very Keynesian approach to economy, with a twist: they used credit to invest in weaponry.
One of the reasons Hitler attacked Poland was that he was on the verge of a crash.
What is true is that these facts were not really known in other countries, enticing people to invest.
I don’t see how most of your posts respond to anything. There isn’t a rule against that. You scramble words in a way that it appears you are trying to stay on topic, but you use hyperbole, you express certainty when there is nuance, you quote mine and claim it as proof.
I’m not obligated to sort out your confusion.
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Disagree. Americans were highly invested in Germany.
Agree.
Bankruptcy in 1930 is putting it mildly. Their money was worth less than the paper it was printed upon.
Germany was so advanced scientifically and had industrial capabilities like in the Ruhr Valley. Germany was so far advanced over the rest of the world that their industrial machinery was never matched by the rest of the world until the creation of CNC machinery.
Durning the Weimar period their education system was regarded as the highest of international standards and there was almost no illiteracy in Germany.
In a time when the bankers had major influence and power over Europe and the US. Germany was still a good investment for bankers. Then along came the Nazis wanting funding for war.
The wealth and retirement of the middle-class of Germany and many other countries including the United States was invested in German government bonds.
As money, including German government bonds after Nazis involvement became worthless and Nazis required all gold and gold bonds to be handed over. The German Gold Bonds issued by US bankers and backed by Germany became paper gold and accepted by most countries and transactions for Germany.
After the war. America had seven treaties with Germany. Five of those treaties was for Germany to pay the American holders of the German Gold Bonds the other two treaties had to do with nuclear. Germany has for a couple of times claimed that the bonds were paid. Most bondholders are still waiting to be paid. President Trump in his first term talked about looking into getting the bondholders paid. If all interest is paid in the amount owed. It would be over a trillion dollars today. The point being. Not only did the German banks but the US banks worked with the Nazis and are responsible.
You have chosen to drive another conversation to nowhere land.
I thought we were already there. I didn’t know I was driving.