Eric BlairDec 2, 2022

As we watch Elon Musk slide into rightwing radicalization in real time, I’m reminded of this 1941 piece by Dorothy Thompson.
“Who goes Nazi?”

In short: it is the people who love money and status and power that are at risk.
Those who resist the urge are the people who have a solid family life; a job they love for the work, not the money; a moral framework based on pluralism and equal access to opportunity.
Worth a read. #nazi #Twitter #liberal

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Harper's Magazine
Show threadChris James
@protecttruth Really struck by that phrase of a “lost generation”. I think we have one of those now, but not all would go nazi. Where people have lost access to education and job opportunities, especially in industrialised towns seeing former livelihoods rusting away is that humiliation that pushes people to the far right.
Dec 3, 2022 at 8:02amWeb