Is history repeating itself? The philosopher George Santayana said that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Wikipedia has an interesting article on Historic recurrence which I ran across as I was thinking about history repeating itself.

I’m reading “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic” by Benjamin Carter Hett and this quote got me thinking about this.

“among the Weimar Republic’s more fatal defects was that millions of its people deeply believed things that were verifiably untrue.”

So with the constant distraction and misdirection are we reliving something close to the end of the German republic?

Is history repeating itself? It is not exactly the same but some things seem pretty close.