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Anecdotes include that of a man who escaped Germany with only one suitcase, planning to return in a few days, after people who supported Hitler regained their sanity and ousted him.\u00a0\u00a0Another concerns a man who eventually gave in to his son\u2019s persistent requests to be permitted to join the Nazi Party.\u00a0\u00a0He felt that by doing so, his son at least would avoid persecution by the brown-shirted minions of the regime.\u00a0\u00a0In doing so, he handed his son over to doom.\u00a0\u00a0It is questionable whether father or son survived the resulting war, the war that skeletonized Berlin and left its people starving, entirely reliant on the mercies of those whom they had, until then, tormented.<\/p>\n
Key to all of this in the 1930s was the false perception, renewed each day, that the Nazi government had gotten so bad that matters could not possibly get any worse.\u00a0\u00a0They just had to turn around and get back to a normal, civilized society.\u00a0\u00a0After all, just how bad could things get?\u00a0\u00a0Could they possibly lead to a worldwide war?\u00a0\u00a0(Japan\u2019s Pacific ambitions relied heavily on, and were encouraged by, the expectation that Germany would defeat the British Empire and thereby expel it from Asia.)\u00a0\u00a0And the idea of millions dying in \u201cdeath camps\u201d seemed preposterous in 1933.\u00a0\u00a0Only barbarians could enact such a policy.\u00a0\u00a0Surely, civilized Germany could never, ever do such a thing.<\/p>\n
Is it fair to compare modern America to the Germany of the era of 1933\u201345?<\/p>\n
Decide for yourself.\u00a0\u00a0In America, the so-called \u201cFree Speech\u201d movement of the 1960s quickly morphed into the practice of censorship by shouting down speakers with whom the left disagrees.\u00a0\u00a0How far can that get?\u00a0\u00a0Racial civil rights, a good thing, eventually was deceptively adapted to women\u2019s rights, gay rights, and even \u201canimal rights.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Women\u2019s rights became the right to kill millions of unborn children.\u00a0\u00a0Racial civil rights became the debilitations of multi-generational welfare for life.\u00a0\u00a0Add to all these the right of criminals, even murderers, to be released without punishment.\u00a0\u00a0Okay, no farther.<\/p>\n
But farther there was.<\/p>\n
The right of gays to be \u201cleft alone,\u201d and then to marry each other, eventually became the right of homosexuality advocates to teach small schoolchildren the sexual practices of sodomy.\u00a0\u00a0No, this can\u2019t be true!\u00a0\u00a0No one could have foreseen that a president of the United States, abetted by the entire Democrat party, and the courts, would use taxpayer money to bring children into \u201csex change\u201d clinics to mutilate them, to permanently destroy their ability to grow into their natural sex.\u00a0\u00a0One would have been deemed insane to predict such a thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
We have in the Oval Office an increasingly senile puppet whose handlers not only permit millions of illegal aliens to flood our nation, swelling our census with future representatives who will represent them, not us \u2014 not only permit, but actually pay for their lawless border-crossing with our tax dollars.<\/p>\n
We now have in Congress people who openly acquiesce to foreign powers sworn to destroy America.\u00a0\u00a0We have corporate boards of directors who despise the ordinary hardworking citizen and who openly sneer at our flag and ridicule the idea of selfless patriotism.\u00a0\u00a0The rot has so deeply infested our nation that at least one congressman has admitted that there is no normal, procedural way to set things right.<\/p>\n
We used to trust that election officials would not rig elections.<\/p>\n
For decades, the question has been asked: when will Americans wake up?\u00a0\u00a0They have yet to do so, and the nightmare not only continues, but gets worse.\u00a0\u00a0Just as in 1933 Germany, antisemitism has become a dreadful fact of the political scene, especially on American college campuses.\u00a0\u00a0How far will it go?<\/p>\n
Unlike in twentieth-century Germany, there are a few people in power who recognize, and oppose, the present trend toward an American tyranny. Governor Abbott of Texas is one, and he has the explicit support of twenty-five other governors.\u00a0\u00a0We have a tradition of independence, of private weapons ownership, and of refusing to be silenced.<\/p>\n
Will these few, citizens and governors, be enough?\u00a0\u00a0Or will we sink into the mire that swallowed the mighty epitome of civilization that Germany once had been?\u00a0\u00a0There will be no one to come to our aid \u2014\u00a0\u00a0only foreign armies to trample us.\u00a0\u00a0Will we allow our children to be enslaved?<\/p>\n
As President Reagan once\u00a0said<\/a>, there are no easy choices, but there are simple ones.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/maybe_they_really_are_nazis_after_all.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Tom: We presently have ring-side seats on the modern equivalent of “the fall of Rome”. The writer states: “The rot has so deeply infested our nation that at least one congressman has admitted that there is no normal, procedural way to set things right. “ As I have said before: “As I see it this … <\/p>\n
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