Sorry, I think you're projecting your perceptions onto what you purport as an allusion. I was actually thinking of the 30s - 40s ideological struggles in central Europe, but not alluding to anything except generalized notions of ideology. I was trying to point out the hubris of the liberal democratic view that liberal democracy is an evolution past what it paints as failed ideological systems. Apparently I failed miserably, judging by the comments here.

EXCELLENT comparisons...thank you.

Unfortunately the 1% have pulled the wool over 33% of the population...and the 33% are what will get dumbass re-elected if we don't get EVERYONE out to vote BLUE that we can.

That 95% includes the 33% religious who will vote for Trump no matters what he does, and the ~7% who benefit along with the 1%.

yes. the religious vote against their own best interest... because... you know.. jesus @yvilletom

@Leetx We earthly types think of earthly best interests. Those religious vote for a different best interest, a Rapture that carry them to their afterlife.

Very oversimplified. But I was trying to point something about the irony of history or something. That, at least in the U.S., there used to be the perception that such a struggle is something that liberal democracy had evolved past.

Agreed about the other things.