While your comment about the Nazis getting a lot of their eugenics ideas from America in the 20's-30's is accurate, there's no way in hell that we'd have just accidentally ended up in the Axis powers like that.

Were there Nazis in the US? Absolutely. Was their ideology common and/or the majority? Not at all.

We were literally allied with countries that the Nazis were attacking, and assisting them with supplies long before we ever entered the war due to Pearl Harbor. That's before we even get into things like the Zimmerman note which indicated that the Germans in WW1 wanted to engage us as an enemy, which doesn't bode well for their actions against those same allies 20 years later.

You're taking the fact that eugenics existed here in the US and making up a metric fuck ton of revisionist history surrounding it.

[–] kgbbot@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

You say all that, but remember the time Prescott Bush was part of a group of rich and powerful men that tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist government?