Doomed to repeat history?

I am and always have been a student of  history.  I believe that we can learn a lot from history -- not just our history but the history of others.  I frequently here people ask, “how could Germans elect someone as evil as Adolph Hitler.”  I think some of that is that much of the bad things he was doing was kept hidden from the masses, and he talked a good game.  People liked what he said, and were willing to stick their heads in the sand when it came to his negative attributes.  They were willing to blindly follow him to the ends of the earth.

Sound familiar?  I know, Barrack Obama is harmless -- and after all, this is America in the modern age, another Hitler couldn’t possibly happen in our Democracy.  Right?

Well, so far, Barrack Ostalin has already attacked the freedom of the press and of speech -- his minions threatened to bring lawsuits against radio stations that play NRA ads that speak out against him.  And look what happened to “Joe the Plumber,” he asked Ostalin a tough question and has been crucified.  Add to this the fact that the media is COMPLETELY in the bag for this guy.  We’re setting things up to go pretty badly, here.

Second, we know through what he did in Illinois and on the panels he has been on that he is adamantly anti-gun.  Now, this might sound good to Liberals, but I’m sure the anti-gunners in Germany and in Russia were glad when their respective dictators took away their guns, too.  So, once opposition speech is banned, and say, hypothetically, during his term in which democrats have complete power of congress and likely Supreme Court nominations, he passes a bill allowing presidents to serve more than 8 years -- and ultimately refuses to step down (I know, a far stretch, huh?) -- who will defend our republic since all of our guns have been taken away?  

I know, I know, this is all pretty far fetched.  This would not happen in a civilized world.  Except, it already has, just look back 70 years or so.