Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America
“Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag.” Is democracy slowly disappearing? Hitler and Franco did it in Germany and Spain. Is Bush doing it in the USA?
You just have to look at how easily Americans have abandoned their traditional views of the world to see how easy it is for a good country to do evil things.
In the Cold war your fathers saw how evil the Russian secret police were. They saw how dangerous it was to give the Government the power to monitor everyones movements for any reason. Today Americans have no problem
In WW2 your grandfathers argued against torture. While facing the most powerful war Machine ever they held themselves above the evil that torture represents Today America tortures.
In WW1 Your great great grandfathers argued against big business being in control of Government. Today thats how politics works in the US.
Everything those who came before you died for you have given up. What did it take for you to give it all up? a few men in 4 planes. The entire USSR with 40,000 nukes couldn’t break your fathers. Nazi Germany who had taken control of almost all of Europe and had almost beaten the Mighty British Empire could not make your grandfathers sink to their level. But today, in your fear, you gave it all away.
“Democracy is simply majority rule, which leads to the suppression of those who think and act differently than the majority”
That’s how it’s panning out in the U.S. A true democracy is all about respecting the views and opinions of the *minorities*.
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