I keep having this one dumb thought, but the longer all this idiocy goes on, the more I feel like I might be right:
Trump’s obsessed with Hitler, right? A big part of Hitler’s ultimate rise to ultimate power was the German people facing hyperinflation. What if Trump and his clown car are looking at that like less of a challenge Hitler faced and more of a checkbox or a milestone. Like, “Gotta have hyperinflation if I wanna be a real Hitler!”
I think my comment must be confusing that people think that I’m saying that Hitler faced hyperinflation as part of his reign vs that Hitler ascended to power by being attributed as the only one who could successfully face hyperinflation.
Kinda like people were saying, “these are crazy times, we need a crazy leader.”
Yeah, I totally get it! Very big difference to anyone with half a brain. But the current GOP could easily be seeing it as a checkbox instead of a huge reason for his winning the 1932 election
Hitler got into power after hyperinflation though, he wasn’t the one who caused it. It was the failure of the centrist government on the economy which led to the rise of the far right and far left in Germany.
Yes, that’s the clown car part I was describing. That this administration is so obsessed yet unable to discern causality, that they’re like “hyperinflation gave Hitler power! Ergo, if I want Hitler’s power, there must be hyperinflation!”
I think it’s probably more like they know that a destabilized government makes taking complete control easier. He has Musk and company dismantling all the checks/balances, and his economic yo-yo is working on crippling the masses financially, which in the end means less resistance when he moves against the courts with force instead of social media.
I’ve had a similar thought, though not quite to hyperinflation levels where people are burning piles of $1,000 bills to keep warm or anything. But say he reduced the value of a dollar a hundredfold: suddenly people saving for retirement with a million out two dollars would have the equivalent of ten or twenty thousand. Meanwhile, Elon would still have the equivalent of a couple billion dollars. Everyone would be poor except the ultra rich. That would enable big business to compete with China in terms of wages paid, which is the only real way to bring manufacturing back to the US. Seen that way, making America great again is about making it a manufacturing base again by turning the whole country into sweatshop laborers.
I keep having this one dumb thought, but the longer all this idiocy goes on, the more I feel like I might be right:
Trump’s obsessed with Hitler, right? A big part of Hitler’s ultimate rise to ultimate power was the German people facing hyperinflation. What if Trump and his clown car are looking at that like less of a challenge Hitler faced and more of a checkbox or a milestone. Like, “Gotta have hyperinflation if I wanna be a real Hitler!”
A key difference is that Hitler didn’t cause the hyperinflation.
I am irrationally hopeful that even most dumbasses who voted for him will realize that his policies fucked them, and can’t save them
I think my comment must be confusing that people think that I’m saying that Hitler faced hyperinflation as part of his reign vs that Hitler ascended to power by being attributed as the only one who could successfully face hyperinflation.
Kinda like people were saying, “these are crazy times, we need a crazy leader.”
Yeah, I totally get it! Very big difference to anyone with half a brain. But the current GOP could easily be seeing it as a checkbox instead of a huge reason for his winning the 1932 election
Hitler got into power after hyperinflation though, he wasn’t the one who caused it. It was the failure of the centrist government on the economy which led to the rise of the far right and far left in Germany.
Yes, that’s the clown car part I was describing. That this administration is so obsessed yet unable to discern causality, that they’re like “hyperinflation gave Hitler power! Ergo, if I want Hitler’s power, there must be hyperinflation!”
I think it’s probably more like they know that a destabilized government makes taking complete control easier. He has Musk and company dismantling all the checks/balances, and his economic yo-yo is working on crippling the masses financially, which in the end means less resistance when he moves against the courts with force instead of social media.
I’ve had a similar thought, though not quite to hyperinflation levels where people are burning piles of $1,000 bills to keep warm or anything. But say he reduced the value of a dollar a hundredfold: suddenly people saving for retirement with a million out two dollars would have the equivalent of ten or twenty thousand. Meanwhile, Elon would still have the equivalent of a couple billion dollars. Everyone would be poor except the ultra rich. That would enable big business to compete with China in terms of wages paid, which is the only real way to bring manufacturing back to the US. Seen that way, making America great again is about making it a manufacturing base again by turning the whole country into sweatshop laborers.