As I was growing up through the fifties, sixties and on I heard the question asked over and over again, “How could the Jews have allowed that to happen to themselves?” The Holocaust. The rounding up and subsequent murdering of millions of Jews, gays, mentally challenged and others selected as enemies of the Fatherland during the reign of the Third Reich at the hands of Hitler and his cronies. ‘How could they have lined up and been herded off to the Final Solution?’ was the question I heard many times. No one could understand how it was possible. Why did the Jews allow it? How did the Germans stand by and let it happen to fellow Germans. No one understood.
Well, NOW we know the answer. THIS is how it happens.
It starts small and gains momentum until everyone FOLLOWS ORDERS. Our leaders today are bullying the American people just as the German people were bullied by THEIR leaders in the 1930’s and 1940’s. I’m sure many pundits will poo-poo this reasoning and try to tell you it’s “not the same thing” – but make no mistake, it’s EXACTLY the same.
Granted, the TSA exams are a long way from the murder of millions of our citizens, but this is how it starts – this is the beginning of the mental state necessary to march all those people to the trains and off to the camps. They were told the HAD to do it under penalty of law. Those in positions of authority told the Jews the HAD to be relocated. They complied. They complained, grumbled, some fought, but in the end they were taken away all the same. Today we are being protected from an enemy our current leaders won’t even call by name let alone allow our TSA people screen for – tomorrow we will be marching our seniors off to “take the pill” to bail out failed policies of a regime that feels they were “chosen” to “fundamentally change America.” That should echo eerily to students of the rise of Adolph Hitler. I feel like we are at the end of “Star Wars” when the emperor unleashes bolts of electricity on Luke Skywalker and says “…only NOW do you realize the power of the Dark Side…”
The Final Solution was not accomplished in a day and the abuses of the population were not achieved instantly. It took years of conditioning until the Third Reich was ready to start the furnaces.
Is this the “change” Americans were looking for? Is that TSA agent groping your kid the way to protect us? Or is there another way? You already know the answer to THAT question, too.