I was listening to Pulitzer Prize winner @ChrisLynnHedges comparing Joe Biden to Franz von Papen of the Weimar Republic in 1932, and found it fascinating, so I did a little reading. A lot of liberals tried to get people to support Joe Biden... 1/10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen#Chancellorship

during the election, by comparing Trump to Hitler. Interestingly, Biden compares with von Papen, as well.

The country was divided after the Chancellorship of centrist Heinrich Brüning, who moved right after being appointed (read: Barack Obama),... 2/10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen#Chancellorship

angering social democrats.

Von Papel, once appointed, formed a cabinet known as the "cabinet of barons" or "cabinet of monocles". President Hindenberg made a deal with Adolph Hitler that the Nazis would tolerate von Papen's government if new... 3/10

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elections were called. As agreed, the Papen government dissolved the Reichstag on 4 June and called a national election, in the hope that the Nazis would win the largest number of seats in the Reichstag, which would allow him the majority he... 4/10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen#Chancellorship

needed to establish an authoritarian government.

Papen proceeded to cut insurance payments, means test unemployment checks and lower wages while cutting taxes to the rich and to corporations. When Nazis started killing communists, Papen did not... 5/10

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let allow them to be executed, for fear of losing his political coalition with the Nazis, eventually agreeing to serve as Vice-Chancellor to Chancellor Adolph Hitler.

So you can see that it is the centrists refusal to allow the systemic change that...6/10
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would truly help the poorest people that led to their embrace of Hitler. Just as today, it is the wealthy liberals refusal to allow even a moderate leftist, like @BernieSanders, to implement his policies, and even embrace neocons like George W.... 7/10

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Bush, John Kasich and the @LincolnProject to avoid systemic change, who will probably lead to the Democrats losing a lot of Congressional seats in 2022 and electing, in 2024, either a Donald Trump who is invulnerable to Democrats' attacks, or a... 8/10

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Mike Pompeo or Tom Cotton or Marco Rubio.

Look not at the left, for refusing to support the austerity and war mongering of the conservative Democrats, for why this will happen, but at the rich liberal class that pretends to care about black.... 9/10

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lives and healthcare for all and ending war and all of that stuff, who will again embrace a conservative and a racist over embracing real systemic change from the left. 10/10

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