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2024-12-17 12:43 UTC
@Kraemer_HB@mastodon.social I think Hitler would not have been so much in the public eye and would not have become a messianic figure for some Germans if Germany's elites — business and military leaders, media owners, university professors, churchmen — had not pushed him into the limelight. They bear ulimate responsibility for creating the monster that was Hitler. They thought they could control the monster. They were sadly mistaken.
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@Kraemer_HB@mastodon.social 2024-12-17 12:52
@wdlindsy@toad.social That's an important lesson for today. Messianic figures get created by elites. Only elites can consistently say "Oh, look at this guy, isn't that interesting?" and influence others, even when they themselves don't find this guy adequate. That's the same between Trump and Hitler, too, I think: Real elites, the high society, sneer at them as dumb low lives. But even they focus their attention on such figures. And maybe that is even an involuntary effect. Even Dem elites focused Trump.