Being jealous of the people who slept through History...

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking of the Reichstag Fire as a precedent for leftist behavior.  It's still unknown what exactly happened.  The Nazis definitely blamed political opponents and used it as an excuse to increase their own power just as Democrats are doing.  That said, Russia had been spending as much money as possible to fund revolutions all around the world and everyone had expected Germany to be the first communist nation so they'd have definitely been working on that.

"These sub-humans do not understand how the people stand at our side.  In their mouse-holes, out of which they now want to come, of course they hear nothing of the cheering of the masses"
 - Hitler, discussing the fire with Rudolf Diels

I definitely think we need to investigate how fascists actually split from communists, since they did start as communists.  I've always suspected that it was basically one difference, that fascists recognized a nation had to be ruled as a nation whereas communists insist that nations will vanish and they'll rule the entire world as a natural conclusion.  So there's one sane element in an otherwise insane viewpoint and that's really all there is.  It does extend to how the rulership works, private businesses are allowed to exist as long as they obey whereas communists believe everything should be owned by the government which will magically vanish for utopia.  But where I'm currently curious is how this was started.

Hitler was a fanboy of Mussolini.  Mussolini started out a total communist until he actually had to be in charge of something.  I'll have to look up the specifics but I think it was The Great War that did it, a lot of leftists went straight for the war and I've always seen the military as being where the right and left sides effectively reach their highest points in a good way but to do that they need to accept and understand battle, not to mention the chain-of-command.

[Yes, Mussolini started out with standard neutrality but quickly saw the benefit of supporting the war.  Many communists did, many did not and they started fighting each other]

So World War I basically came from this aspect of human existence, Russia, Italy and Germany came out of that and there's most of the 20th Century.  I'm not remotely surprised that the left is all about how horrible Nazis were despite communist rule being just as deadly if not more.  Stalin killed a lot more Russians than Hitler did, Mao killed around 40 million Chinese in a few years but they were easy to replace and their followers still don't allow criticism.  The rulers get to keep their power and palaces without election for the rest of their lives.

I think a large part of humanity are more opposed to people very slightly different from themselves than they are to people who are much different.  Individuals can focus on things to be done in their own lives, these people can't and won't until reality gets too far in their way.  The benefit of Western Civilization [USA ← England ← Western Europe ← Rome ← Greece ← Babylonia ← Egypt ← Sumer] allows them to stick with that insanity far more than anyone in history.  It's one reason I always cite the changes made by WWI as making it impossible to comprehend existence before then.  The richest and most-powerful rulers didn't even wipe their ass with toilet paper at an indoor flushable toilet.  If you don't know the difference, go without that for a few weeks and see the result.  And don't pass time on the internet when you're taking a shit, even if you're curious about what Western Civilization has given you that previous centuries didn't have.

I have to wonder if we're now in the 'latter days' where all of this is being combined by those who want to rule us.