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Are Nazis or neo-Nazis a problem in the United States, or is it just fear mongering?
I have trouble pointing out exactly what they're actually achieving, but also it does seem like they've been a lot louder recently. Is that only because the fear mongers are giving them more attention, or is it because they are more brazen and have higher numbers?
Are they only a problem if they actually get some sort of power, or cause some sort of harm? Or are they a problem for simply expressing that they want to cause harm? Is that what they're even expressing?
For any reasonable definition of "a problem in the United States", they are not. It's not even fear mongering as such - except limited number of feeble-minded students of liberal arts colleges, I don't think many people seriously believe there's a threat. It makes sometimes very convenient though to pretend there's a threat, as emergency situation allows to demand emergency powers, and if we're under the threat of Nazi overwhelming Our Democracy (TM), then we can carpet bomb anything right of the center and feel good about it - if somebody innocent got hit, well, the exceptional situation left us no choice.
Otherwise, there are a bunch of sorry fucks that play with soon-to-be-100-years-old symbols and thousands of years old hate, because they couldn't figure anything better to do with their sorry lives. There are a bunch of different sorry creatures - somewhat represented right here in this very forum - who think it makes them cool and insightful to blame The Joos in everything bad that ever happened and inhabit the role of a person being persecuted for revealing The Terrible Truth. The former can be dangerous as any criminal or insane person can be dangerous - people are capable of hurting people, and the Nazi people specifically associated themselves with the movement that murdered millions, so their barrier for hurting other people is pretty low, and so is their level of rational consideration. But since they have neither power nor numbers, outside of their immediate vicinity, the danger of them is minimal. The latter are toxic but mostly inconsequential and the best is just to ignore them.
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