No, Americans are not Nazis, SOME Americans are MAGAs, which hold similar beliefs.

It's not that MAGAs are Nazis, or vice versa, it's that they are both comprised of the same subset of psycho/sociopathic humanity that exists at any given time in history. The letters are just labels.

People have been people for as long as there have been people. The same personality archetypes we see today, have always existed. That includes a type of person who despises much of what they see around them, and decides to destroy that society, and create their own, and FORCE everybody else to go along with it.

In a healthy society, those people are sidelined in some way or another (that's a whole separate book), but occasionally those people find cracks in their society, gather together, and gain power. They were called Nazis in the mid-20th century, and they're called MAGAs today, and they'll be called something else next century, but they're all from the same poisoned well.

America may be able to purge MAGA from their government, but they can never purge that personality archetype from society. Even if you could somehow identify and kill every one, the next generation would just spawn a new set of political psychopaths. Instead, societies have to recognize and acknowledge that these people always exist among us, and are constantly trying to take our society from us, and we need to have strategies to resist them, and keep them from power.

In America, they had the opportunity to prohibit any MAGA from holding office under Amendment 14/Section 3, but the Biden administration decided to lead with weakness, and didn't use it, allowing MAGA to rise and regain power. That is the sign of a weak, sick society, and unfortunately America seems a long ways from actually addressing their most important issues.

While the rest of the world waits for America to properly get its shit together, they all have to be much more vigilant and pro-active in defending their own Democracies, which are currently undergoing the same active attack as America. Otherwise, they'll end up in exactly the same position as America, and the entire world will come under authoritarian rule.

This is not a historical phase, these people are ALWAYS with us, but they only emerge occasionally when the conditions are right. It is our responsibility as citizens to carefully craft our societies so that those conditions don't take hold, and allow the destructive element of society emerge and take power.

I can name you few banana republics well into the 2000s. Shit, you're trying to do it again in Venezuela RIGHT NOW!

You are being downvoted for stating an uncomfortable truth.

Europeans don't like it when you interrupt their tirade against America, to ask them about Belgium in the Congo, or Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and others oppressing their colonies across the world, or operating the slave trade that fueled early America, or destroying the Central American civilizations for their gold and jewels, or fomenting countless wars, all happening for centuries before America was even born, but it's all America's fault.

The simple truth is that all governments are shitty, and we all have very uncomfortable histories. Acknowledge it, teach it, and commit to not repeating it. That's the best strategy. Arguing over which psychopathic society is better, is stupid.

"Raise your hand if you can name a Belgian colony in Afri.... actually nevermind..."

Au contraire, I would say hating someone for their beliefs is a much better reason. It is something they have control over and can change and then there's no reason to hate them anymore. I would assume people on Lemmy would understand this as it not just applies to religion but also to politics. Or would you say punching black people is better than punching Nazis?