Is Germany in danger of repeating its Nazi past? (2020)

It was another time, with another set of memes running into society, like software daemons setting stuff to work in a fascist way. Think about a pair of the Linux desktop GUIs, Gnome and KDE.

Gnome gives you a set of rules for using the desktop, you can't modify, except by going around the set of rules. You can run a computer with this GUI, you have set of constrains and a set of benefits.

KDE chooses a diffent path, you have freedom, lots of it, you can do almost whatever you want with the GUI, change its rules, how it behaves. You also can run a computer with this GUI, and also it has a set of constrains, and a set of benefits.

But who decides which one is better? You decide, you choose, you have the freedom to choose whatever GUI suits you better.

But in the real world, things got really messy, awfully.

Sometime around the 30s the fascist movement took a stronger way of forcing society to play by its rules, then it resorted to violence to expand its influence, ultimately - ten years later - leading to the WWII.

But the grave failure of the fascist movement to the societies it ruled was published by western victorious elites later as a complete, absolut failure in every aspect, but the history actually show a different picture: the violence and the war took the victory out of the hands of the fascist movement.

When the WWII exploded, the fascist movement was already established and ruling most of the super-powers of the 30's, and it actually didn't went away after the Axis defeat. Another kind of fascist movement took over Russia and China.

Maybe the violence can't be taken out off the fascist movement, as much as freedom can't be taken out off truely democratic societies.

But what happens if a new kind of fascist finds its way into the western societies again?

Would they have learned the leasons from the past or they would just want to retake control from current ruling elites? Just to take Europe or maybe other countries back to the 30's? Then who knows where they would lead the human history.

Freedom can only persist if we - who like it - watch over those who do not really like you to have options and the freedom to choose from them.

needs a [2020] because obviously a lot has changed