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No endo, we are just better at learning from experience and turning that into moral and ethical behavior. German oligarchs thought they could control the "crazies" and look where that got them. We have too many oligarchs in the US playing the same dangerous game.

Historical Comparisons: Fritz Stern Publishes "Five Germanys I Have Known"

"Can It Happen Here?" is the headline of the NY Times review of the Fritz Stern's memoir:

In November 2005, Fritz Stern received an award for his life's work on Germans, Jews and the roots of National Socialism, presented to him by Joschka Fischer, then the German foreign minister. With a frankness that startled some in the audience, Stern, an emeritus professor of European history at Columbia University, peppered his acceptance speech with the similarities he saw between the path taken by Germany in the years leading up to Hitler and the path being taken by the United States today. He talked about a group of 1920's intellectuals known as the "conservative revolutionaries," who "denounced liberalism as the greatest, most invidious threat, and attacked it for its tolerance, rationality and cosmopolitan culture," and about how Hitler had used religion to appeal to the German public. In Hitler's first radio address after becoming chancellor, Stern noted, he declared that the Nazis regarded "Christianity as the foundation of our national morality and the family as the basis of national life."...

http://atlanticreview.org/archives/467-Historical-...

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I'm aware that you think ethical behavior isn't important. It's evident from your posts and chosen political party. We walk a different road, you and I, and your comments merely serve to reinforce I've chosen the right one.

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