Dolschtosslengende Explained

I read through a fine article today....entitled "The Democrats' Dolchstosslegende"....by Daniel Greenfield.

There's a brief talk over Dolchstosslengende, how it affected Germans after WW I, and how it fell into play in the 1920s and 1930s.  Then Greenfield goes to take the same concept to talk about Americans and their inability to handle Hillary's defeat in November 2016.

Dolschstosslengende?  It loosely translate to a stab-in-the-back....meaning you expected something that never did happen (of a very serious nature).  The same expression would be for a guy who arrives on Friday at work and finds that a guard is blocking everyone....that the company is shutting down and you go to getting all hyped up about the unfairness of the situation.

Before 1919....this typically would come up with people talking about an expectation of a great crop, and have a massive rainfall to destroy the crop potential....and you needed to go and blame something.

If you hang around Germans enough...there typically needs to be blame dished out for failures or bad times.  Just accepting things....isn't usually a German habit.

Dolschtosslengende often revolves around whining and complaining....that you can't take responsibility or understand.

In the German case....prior to WW I....every SINGLE conflict that they'd engaged upon since 1800....was a German or Prussian victory.  So when defeat came in 1919....there was disbelief.

Not only did Dolschtosslengende come out of this period....there's another term that got invented for use....."Novemberverbrecher".  This meant to call every German leader who signed the surrender agreement....as a criminal.

Most intellectuals and historians will say that the war was basically concluding on it's own in 1918 because of economic and agricultural reasons.  It was simply something that had to occur.

So you look at everyone's attitude in the 2015 to November 2016 period.  Everyone in the US, and Europe....was focused on a Hillary win.  Never once did the Democratic Party go and suggest some skeptical view.  Journalists simply jumped on the train and rode along.  Even on election night....Hillary stood there in disbelief at the hotel at the Dolschtosslengende situation....it was not supposed to be possible to lose these five or six states that folded over to Trump.

Blame?  We simply went from that night on.....turbo blame dished out....from comedians and the Hollywood elite....TV hosts....journalists.....intellectuals....and an assortment of people with the Dolschtosslengende opinion.  Even today....there are millions around the globe on a tangent and still hyped up.  The NFL and NBA crowd?  They simply fell into the same mind-set.

What happens in 2020, if Trump wins again?  Dolschtosslengende II?  Yeah, I hate to bring this up, but it's the likely outcome.