You have to live through it to understand it. I would never compare our situation as EQUIVALENT to what Germans dealt with under Hitler's reign, but it's RELATABLE. Growing up, I always wondered: why didn't "people" stop Hitler? Because "people" thought he "wasn't that bad" until it was too late.

I also think the trite "what would you have done in Nazi Germany" question is illuminating. What would we have done, indeed? How does one person overcome the power of a systemic villain? It's not as easy as it is in the comic books.

@codinghorror You would think!