by escalating it to nazi germany you desensitize the reader. i discussed that at great length further to understand. it's the "chicken little" and "little boy who cried wolf" effect. rhetorical escalation as an exclamation mark only serves to raise the volume required next time around.
hitler's literal opposition were shrieking that he planned to end democracy, and that's exactly what he did. but that shrieking just made it easier to do.
the real payload was the democracy in the first place, planted decades later, and made even worse with suffrage.
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*planted decades earlier. no, it was about 800 years earlier. the magna carta gave way to parlimentary democracy, which gave way to universal suffrage, and the first thing that happened next was literal hitler.
if you don't point out the fundamentals the rest rides in over top like a trojan horse.
democracy is the principle that the will of a numerical majority can overrule principles of law that protect social cohesion. that's directly an attack on actual laws and actual laws that pre-exist being overridden leads to disaster, predictably.
also, i'm not writing this with claude's help. i read what it wrote and i am reformulating it both to explain it to you and to bed it in my memory.
and fundamentally i agree that leaving the cities is the thing but leaving the country is probably not so helpful. the tentacles tend to be weakest at the greatest physical obstacle to reaching it. move to the mountain village, but don't let your eyes close thinking that's all you need to do.
Leaving the cities is definitely a first step but the country is not off the table if it's rotten to the core. Case in point Canada Vs Croatia or UK vs Hungary, which one would you pick? It's not to say there is a utopian society anywhere on earth, there is none. It's about going where you are stolen from the least and are left alone the most. Definitely not for everyone but it's in my toolbox of solutions. Other than that, I am in agreement with all the points you raised especially on universal suffrage
I hear you but my choice of example was motivated by the fact that most folks' historical frame of reference to anything of importance is WW2. It's an era of familiarity and that one is able to properly fact check in real time, especially as a truth seeker. The problems with the example that you highlighted are indeed real, but in this instance my use of this example was so narrow that it makes the point without setting off any landmines
