• chaogomu@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        WW2, we only joined because Japan attacked. Otherwise, there were elements of the US population that were cheering for Hitler.

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          9 months ago

          People don’t realize that the US used to see fascism as a sort of white utopia. It was really popular up until WW2 when they hard turned on it. Kind of like what happened with communism, actually. It was seen as a revolutionary form of democracy up until the cold war, now people only know it for all the propaganda that came out of the era. (most of which was flat out lies made up on the spot by actual nazis)

          It’s a lot of the reason why the modern day liberal is so staunchly both-sides when it comes to anything geopolitics.