Reply #5: He capitalized on the crash of 1929. [View All]

We weren't the only country affected by it. Germany was already suffering from a Depression and the crash only made it worse. He reached out to the unemployed, homeless, hungry and poor and offered them a way out. He attacked the Jews as the reasons for the Germans' problems and told them the were the superior race and deserved to live well, not in squalor as they were then.

I don't like what's going on in this country, but I don't see the GOP offering the poor a leg up, nor do I see them using another race or religion as a scapegoat. Sure, in specific and very limited instances one or two may have tried to take a page from Hitler, but it was narrow in scope and, more importantly, rebuffed by US citizens and unsuccessful (I'm thinking particularly of the "religious right" here and their vastly unsuccessful attempts to gain power). And these attempts will continue to be squelched by the citizens of this country.