It seems the very people who for decades said, "never again" are the first people to support and repeat the idea of jailing and re-educating people whose opinion they disagree with. It's like they didn't really learn anything in school and have just mindlessly repeated platitudes so as to feel good about themselves, when in truth they are evil, awful people.
That's just normal for humanity. Humans become complacent and lethargic when all they really have to do is work/eat/sleep/play without worrying about their future, because "someone else'' is going to take care of it for them.
I can remember when I first started working, compulsory Canada Pension Plan payments by employees/employers had just come into law and some folks were actually getting rather meager stipends.
The hue and cry put up was weak but relevant.
People being people, they swallowed the Tommy Douglas/CCF KoolAid in large draughts. They didn't understand what the politicians, bureaucrats and corporations would do the original bill by the time it cleared the halls of Parliament and the Senate.
The original bill was worded and designed to provide appx 65% of what it would cost for a person to retire "alone'' in a reasonably comfortable but basic manner.
By the time it was passed, even though the vast majority of voters wanted and still beleived they were getting the "originally proposed bill" it was watered down to the point that the OAP payment would only be appx 25% of what was needed to live comfortably in a very basic manner with few, if any luxuries.
Mind you, back then just being able to listen to a radio, have an electric light bulb in every room and not have to use an outdoor biffy, while being warm enough not to freeze and enough to eat was considered basic.
The original bill was considered to be to expensive to maintain on a long term basis and the corporations threatened to pull out of Canada if their taxes, etc were increased and their rather excessive profits were infringed to pay for what they considered to be wanton largess on no longer productive assets.
I'm still amazed at how many people get within a few years of retirement and have only their CPP/OAP to live on come to the realization that life is going to be a lot less comfortable than it was while working.
The combined provincial and federal pension plans are only set up to provide appx 35% of a very basic retirement, which is based on an existence or preservation of life, rather than a relatively stress free and reasonably enjoyable time.
I should explain, I used the above as an example of what and how this happens.
Pretty much off topic. Sorry.
The only thing similar is the mood created by social engineers from the mid 1890s up past WWII.
Religions, Political groups all looked for a scapegoat to blame the present dire state of their existence on. In Russia, it was the Czar and his minions, In most of Europe it was Jews or Gypsies.
Racisms and even territorialism was the flavor of the day. Whites thought they were superior to every other skin tone out there and had the power/tech to enforce their whimsical and disastrous wills.
Don't get me wrong, racism has never been bound by color and it most certainly isn't a White Only thing. It all depends on which version of it is most profitable and influential at any given time.
It's one pendulum that has many different shapes, weights and colors.
