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COULD. There was no pretense. No making of better worlds for an Attila-ism. Somebody had something he wanted, bam." "I'm trying, .." Shannon was making help-me gestures with her fingers. "Nazi-ism. What the hell was that? A philosophy? My ass. It was a blind fronting a mad man's assumption of power, a Nietzcheesque decoration on a curtain meant only to hide what was lurking behind. These philosophies are nothing but the historic tastes of the gullible. Different generations require different lies to buy into the same old scheme, assumption of power of one or a few over the many. You can try to cram the facts into the polemic, but the essence of Nazi-ism was the Hun - power. Hitler did what he was allowed to do. He went as far as he was allowed to go, blind to lines. Hitler killed and plundered until he was stopped from killing and plundering. The shape of Hitler, his scope was not from within but from without. As water is shaped by the dam, or by the glass, by containment, and as gas expands until something stops it, evil, by definition is expansion without shape, without regard, without constraint. Cancer. Growth without regard to the whole. There was no victory of a philosophy over Nazi-ism. A mad man just pissed off enough of the world to get his ass kicked back. He was not a Nazi threat, he was a monster - a pure threat, waving a Nazi flag. The historic maps do not show the shape of Nazi-ism, the spread of a philosophy, they show the resolve of resistance and the scope of preparedness to contain. Nazi-ism, a dumb ass smoke and mirors philosophy goo on a web to entrap the gullible. We still have Nazi's, but they're just curiosities, stuck in the glue of philosophical gobbledygook and without brains enough to loosen themselves. They have no power. They are no threat. That trick has been exposed. We ignore them, or just give'em a kick in the balls for auld lang syne."