Eric A. Johnson has explained that: most Germans may not even have realized until very late in the war, if ever, that they were living in a vile dictatorship. In other words, ordinary Germans looked the other way when Jews were being rounded up and murdered. Therefore, they abetted one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century – not through active collaboration but through passivity, denial and indifference.
Now, much like 1930’s Germans, Americans have become passive, factionally polarized (and indifferent to those outside their faction) and willfully ignorant. “We” are increasingly distracted by entertainment, partisan politics and consuming media that doesn’t challenge our beliefs. Therefore, we are complicit in creating a police state similar to Nazi Germany.