wrote
The Natural Philosopher wrote

I am not bitter.

Just scared, as I said. Scared for people of your generation and later.
I am old enough to remember the after effects of Nazism, and what
Totalitarianism did to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. And its all
coming back.

+1. What's different now is the complete blindness
of most of the population to it happening.

Nothing even remotely like that is happening in Britain today.

Or in Germany today either.

The lessons from those eras are completely forgotten.

BULL****. In spades with all of Germany, Spain, Italy and France.