[Peace-discuss] The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment

[Karen Capel]

Published on Sunday, March 15, 2009 by CommonDreams.org

The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment

by Robert Freeman

In early 1919, Germany put in place a new government to begin 
rebuilding the country after its crushing defeat in World War I. But 
the right-wing forces that had led the country into the War and lost 
the War conspired even before it was over to destroy the new 
government, the "Weimar Republic." They succeeded.

The U.S. faces a similar "Weimar Moment." The devastating collapse of 
the economy after eight years of Republican rule has left the 
leadership, policies, and ideology of the right utterly discredited. 
But, as was the case with Germany in 1919, Republicans do not intend 
to allow the new government to succeed. They will do everything they 
can to undermine it. If they are successful, the U.S. may yet go the 
way of Weimar Germany.
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/15