RE5TE t1_jdl5g68 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 4:51 AM

Reply to comment by myassholealt in George Santos admits to fraud, using stolen checks by Black_Reactor

>And I can't think of a greater symbol of a broken nation than 1/2 of its government holding this position.

Do you think this has never happened before, in America or other countries? In Germany, after WW2 there were former Nazis allowed back into the government.

>German President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger were both former members of the Nazi Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

IsNotACleverMan t1_jdlky97 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 8:19 AM

Yeah, most nazis quietly resumed their positions of influence. If you look at those who might have been more opportunist than ideological adherents to Nazi beliefs, such as industrialists, bureaucrats, etc., it gets even worse.

Charming-Fig-2544 t1_jdmg1la wrote on March 25, 2023 at 2:16 PM

Same thing happened after the Civil War. Hardly anybody was actually punished, and Confederates quietly went back to their cities and became Mayor, Sheriff, Chairman of the School Board, etc. Jim Crow laws and the Klan really took off from there, and by the mid-1920s it had an estimated peak membership of 6 million. Eugenicists also got super popular at the time, and hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly sterilized under laws that we'd call proto-Nazi. And they literally were, because the Nazis copied some of these 1920s eugenics laws almost word for word when they took power in the 1930s.