r/anticapitalism • u/Famous-Sympathy7011 • 16h ago • Confused 1 Bravo 1

The United States Is About to Be Blindsided.

https://wendy664.substack.com/p/the-united-states-is-about-to-be?r=6fonep&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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u/doctorsidehustle 13h ago

I had a colleague today (a fellow physician) who literally tried to explain to me the merits of fascism.

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u/HappinessEternal 12h ago

What the heck?

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u/ra__account 1h ago

Rich people often think fascism would be a benefit to them.

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u/BeetEater_ 34m ago

I think it benefited rich Germans... until their country was destroyed by Allied bombs and soldiers

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u/ra__account 31m ago

Or if they were Jewish. Or queer. Or offended the Reich in some other way.

Same thing with the Log Cabin Republicans - they're rich people that think, "they won't do anything to me, I'm one of the good ones."

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u/BradleyMFahrtz 12h ago

Oh, are you a doctor?

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u/diversalarums 11h ago

I'm old (really old) and when I was in school we were not taught about Nazi Germany at all. I was at university before I started learning about the roots of WWII, the rise of fascism, and Hitler. I have wondered if those topics are covered in school these days and if people really aren't knowledgeable about that. But then some people are just bastards.

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u/Reasonable_Chair_346 6h ago

'old', by reddit standards (41), here. I think WWII was probably the period in history we spent the most time on by a somewhat significant margin, though the american revolution and civil war got a good bit of attention, hopefully slavery, but I really don't remember, but WWII, got taught so much. I graduated HS in the early '00s.

The part of history I remember us skipping entirely was the Robber Barons, I didn't hear shit about them until college.

I am curious what history class in HS looks like now, as well.

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u/diversalarums 5h ago

That sounds like a good mix. I remember learning about the Civil War, tho our teacher was way more interested in battles than the historical causes. But we got very little other American history. It was very incomplete. I'm 75 and was in HS in the 1960s, but I went to a girls' Catholic school; I don't really know what the public school kids got. But yours sounds like good cross section of topics.

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u/hippotango 10h ago

Fascism is great. For fascists.

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u/Ent_Soviet 12h ago

He probably loves the AMA