A not so nice but essential Sunday thought on the world descending into a situation we last saw almost exactly 100 years ago.

When I was an exchange student from Germany in America back in 1985, I was asked almost daily how our entire country could descend into fascism – either in silent resignation or euphoric support.
Today, America and the whole world can see just how easily this happens: By aggression, ignorance of ethics, morals and laws, propaganda and pure power hunger mixed with greed – and spreading fear. A deadly cocktail scaring the masses with a threat to their existence and agitating them to furiously persecute the designated enemy.

Not that this is any form of I-told-you-so gratification, far from it and very much the opposite. In Germany, apart from the far right blaring the same poisonous message, the majority is horrified how such a thing can happen again in this day and age.
But herein lies the answer: Times are again unstable with military wars looming as is the economy with recession and trade wars, perceived or real. The scapegoat is the immigrant, the woke liberal, the democrat, another nation.

The message spread by social media and agitators is one of anger and rage. The setting is a medieval market square: the loudest and best agitator incites the people against and sends the mopb in direction of the designated scapegoat. The remedy for all fearful/angry people is a totalitarian system. A closed biotope, run by discipline and order, artificially maintaining the good old times when things were simple. Basically a Truman Show. A world providing people with spiritual guidance and comfort by making them feel special, alienating the enemy of the state chosen by party leaders, thus creating security by not only arming the country militarily, but also militarising the population.

This drove the losers of society to be the willing brute-squads of Hitler and these are the people who will do the dirty work for the Musks, Trumps, Putins, Orbans and Farrages of today.

As regards America and soon Europe: We would be well advised to look closer at Project 2025 and the think-tank behind it, the Bannon network and its allies in Europe – because we are their next target.