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Where is the austerity? Does it have a knife?

If Dems don't want it why have they passed a bill that allows exactly that? My post is already censored btw.

It's just the same playbook. Deny problems, divert blame, call opponents bad names.

IF you were so interested in preventing the next Hitler what you would actually have to do is to rigorously oppose anything that threatens the livelihood of average people. Fighting inflation would be THE number one concern because you'd know that people carrying their money in wheelbarrows was what caused Hitler.

If you want to prevent Hitler, you'd fight like hell for decency. Homeless encampments? Open air drug dens? Only-fans? This would be your concern because you'd know that in the Weimar Republic rampant prostitution and other cultural decay is what caused Hitler.

If you wanted to prevent Hitler you'd also speak out sternly against Antifa and other violent extreme leftists, like those that caused the George Floyd riots, because you'd know that the breakdown of public order due to rampant political violence in the Weimar Republic is what caused Hitler.

Nobody on the left is doing any of that because nobody on the left really thinks Trump is a Nazi. It's just a label, just a tactic. And all it has done is to burn term. Trump or Maga or the current right reaction isn't the big bad. What comes after this might be, if Trump fails. Ironically, it's exactly Trump's agenda which is most suited to fight real fascism.

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This idea, that people are just fungible, and that there is some magic "in the earth" that will somehow preserve the target society is exactly what's so repugnant. We need people, agreed. But why is it out of the question and not even worth trying to see if we can fix the underlying cause ie low birth rates?

The reason is that there is an ulterior motive: left intellectuals think they can abolish racism by making the world ethnically and culturally uniform. That's why the arguments and reality never matter: the elites have a higher cause and we just have to suck it up.

Besides the fact that a zygote IS a life, the debate isn't really about zygotes.

Most conservatives are willing to compromise on early abortion. Many places around the world agree that abortions in the first trimester should be possible under some circumstances.

We are not willing to agree to abortion free for all where you can just kill a fully formed baby at nine months like you can in Walz's Minnesota.

nobody here was there in 1935 and I doubt that you have anything more than cursory knowledge of what happened in Nazi Germany at that time.

you think conservatives in europe want tax hikes, mass immigration and abortion at 9 months?

That's really a quite very unrefined view of Hitler's rise to power. If you really want to prevent Hitler then you have to prevent the end-stage of the Weimar Republic. So, you'd need a strong economy, rule of law, public order and a culture of decency and trust. What makes people yearn for autocratic rule isn't "blaming the jews" it's the everyday circumstances that arise when liberals are done running a place into the ground. Like California, at the moment.