This morning, when I viewed Fascist Antifa/BLM protesters tearing down, then kicking and spitting on a Confederate statue which, since 1923, commemorated all those young men in the Confederacy, both black and white, who courageously sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland and families from invasion, I was totally sickened and enraged.
Immediately, the vision of Stalinists as well as of Italian and German Fascists airbrushing and distorting history by burning mounds of books and destroying statuary which didn't comport with their self-serving authoritarian version of history came into painful focus, and I was at once very worried that too many of us have, by our silence, come to tolerate the intolerable.
These Fascists and neo-Marxists have no heart, no empathy, no sense of honor and decency, and, most importantly, they do not respect human life, our history, our Constitution and the sacrifices of our fallen brothers. This also applies to neo-Nazis and white supremacists on the alt-Right.
What's next for the neo-Marxist race-baiters and subverters? The Jefferson Memorial? The Washington Memorial? Both owned slaves. But, how about the Lincoln Memorial? (One needs to remember that throughout Lincoln's slash and burn invasion of the Confederacy he did all he could to elicit the support of black leaders to encourage their black brethren to migrate to Liberia and locations in central America. He never believed blacks should achieve an equal footing in American white society, and said so. He intended to maintain a white-dominated America. Of course, we only remember his Emancipation Proclamation, a politically-induced ruse intended to address flagging Northern enlistments and to ennoble an otherwise very unpopular war in the North.) In truth, and aided and abetted by the neo-Marxist Democrat Party, the removal or destruction of these monuments, like so many other national monuments in both the south and north, are already on the Fascist chopping block. And what will YOU do then? Or will it be too late?
IF the proverbial historical pendulum doesn't start swinging the other way soon--and only the weight of patriotic Americans can make that happen--this republic is t-o-a-s-t. And we have no one to blame but our go-along-to-get-along selves.
My mother was born in Nazi Germany the year the Nazis assumed political majority. Had she not left at age six, I would not be writing this response. People know so little about the twelve year terror of National Socialism, and for that matter, the dynamics leading to it following the end of WW1.
ReplyDeleteGermany and the Wiemar Republic's inflation of 1921-23 ended in 1924. Up to 1929, due to the DAWES Plan, the German economy recovered because of loans and investment mostly from America. During this period the Nazi party ranks dwindled remarkably. Most Germans saw them as a sideshow, and did not take Hitler seriously. In the 1928 German federal election the Nazis won only twelve out of five hundred seats in the Reichstag. The 1929 stock market crash and ensuing global malaise, however, plunged Germany into severe unemployment and filled the ranks of the Nazi party. In five years, by 1933, they were the only political party in Germany.
So the point is a simple one: it only takes a couple of shocks to the system for extremism to metastasize. With that said, we again have ignoramuses slinging around the word Nazi toward the current administration without understanding what they are saying. I recently heard one claim that Hitler was "elected" Chancelor of Germany. Not true. He was appointed by President Paul Von Hindenburg.
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