My latest political musings

My political musings: The Nazis in Germany and Fascists in Italy (I couldn't say about Spain or Portugal) came to power for a number of reasons. Key among them was propaganda and a worldwide depression. Nazis and fascists are strong words but they are applicable only to history though there are groups trying their best to bring them back officially. So far they are only viewed for the most part with opprobrium. They are not applicable today in the sense that they were in the 1930's. But the commonality is the same in terms of the push towards right wing extremism and authoritarianism. The left countered the right in Germany and in Italy at that time but they failed and were decimated. And it required a world war in the 1940's and the will of the people to end those regimes. The world was so different then politically, culturally, socially, racially, technologically and economically. The left today here in the U.S. varies in their ideology and is not very unified. And it doesn't seem to me that it is any more effective than those activists of the 1930's. However, I won't say it has failed yet. There is very little overt violence of course which helps to limit the force of the right. There are no pitched battles in the streets at this time. Charlottesville in 2017 was, however, quite horrid and worrisome. For now the right has control of the message and they get the media to participate, yes, even the the "objective" main stream media. And currently we are seeing an economic depression but not one brought on by the initial failure of the financial systems. Yet it is possible that things will not spiral out of control. But I can't say it is possible it won't. Notice I can't use the word probable in those two statements. Are we screwed? I don't know. Can it happen here? If it does, the world is screwed.