Most people of the population at any given time are passive. Go along to get along. One of the big reasons why there should NEVER be a universal franchise. It is the death of the Republic.
"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."--Edmund Burke
The key is summoning up the courage to confront it.
One thing remarkable about Germany is how quickly it went from being considered one of the most enlightened nations in the world to the Nazi depravity.
Snitching...one of the reasons leftists want to cram everyone onto public transportation and into cities where potential snitches are everywhere.
Go all the way back to the founding of our Nation.
Not much diffent tgen.
People were largly passive
The Left has been very successful at taking over the Media.
They held it, virtually unchallenged, for decades.
Now that they have been challenged, the gloves have come off and they are for full-blown censorship.
Your neighbors will be the new stasi.
I’m sure they wore masks and stayed home. /eyeroll
Same crap going on today with the term “Good Politicians”.
Sigh . . .
Frog. Pot. Boil.
I have little doubt the left would send outspoken conservatives to reeducation camps if they could ...
Not if. When.
Public health.
Mark Dennis Prager.
I just had a flashback to when Obama destroyed a lot of auto dealers for being Republican.Outsider Trump is a "Republican auto dealer” writ large.
And that is why the socialists have to get him.
IMHO the only possible antidote is for SCOTUS to overturn the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision which prevents Republican politicians from establishing the truth in a court of law when (not if) they are libeled by leftists.. . . and unless the Democrats are somehow prevented from stealing the two Ga. Senate seats, that won’t happen.
Exactly. USA is bring subverted and taken over by a leftist/Nazi/communist style dictatorship in the making. Watching today in Georgia and tomorrow in congress with hope but also great trepidation. Csm the DemoNaziCommie coup be stopped?
BINGO-
People are caught up in life, getting by. They don’t think about the philosophical meanings, motivations, consequences... What are we eating tonight, how do we stay warm in winter, how do I keep my kid safe and wife happy?
The power of conforming and belonging to a group is immense. Think about it, people will fly planes into ships. They will starve themselves to death in a society where the trashcans are stuffed with food because they have a self-image where they are fat. We want to be accepted, and if the group says you should be a racist or today have white guilt, nationalist or today globalist, gay bash or today be an advocate for gays... people say and do what they think others want them to do.
Society ends up creating carrots and sticks. There is ALWAYS some sort of reward system and punishment created if you play along or decide not to play along (to varying degrees). Example: What happens if you don’t follow Covid rules and keep your store open, go to a beach that is closed, don’t wear a mask, own a gym and keep the pool open??? Did closing pools and beaches make any logical sense? Do masks really work? Is Covid actually spread in restaurants? But if you refuse to play along, can you even get on a plane?
So called “science,” prominent individuals (role models), politicians, even those teaching right and wrong end up pushing the agenda. There was “science” behind racism, just like their is science telling us to today that there are no differences between the races or sexes. There were ethics even morals behind racism (unequally yoked and many other ideas), just like today there are ethical ideas against racism. There are prominent leaders, artists and role models that are for nationalism (Norman Rockwell), just like there are prominent individuals, role models, music, movies, literature, today telling us how great globalization is. Science tends to tell us whatever we want to believe. Ethics justify whatever we want to do. These prominent role models and leaders simply read from the vents of time and ride atop of these social movements for their own fame and fortune.
It’s hard not to get caught up in whatever the bullshit “flavor of the day” is.
“...without a Gestapo...”
Don’t need it...they’ve got the police to do their bidding.
On another note-
What you can blame the Germans of, is being complete conformists and following rules even if they know they don’t make any frigging sense.
Inside the German, is this sense that following the rules is the right thing to do, for it’s own sake. If you’re at a crosswalk, and the little man is red, at night, no cars, you can see both ways and there is no one coming, but dare to walk across, the German will consider you somehow in the wrong. They don’t think or question the rule in the idea of what is the “spirit of the rule.” They follow rules, to the letter, to the point of absurdity.
That is why they took our racist Lynchburg experiment ideas borne out of the era of eugenics (which was alive here also), put a Swastika on it, and made it into the Holocaust.
That is why they took our recycling ideas of years past and created this crazy Gruenerpunkt recycling program.
That is why they took feminism to absurdity and talk about quota’s in their parliament to make sure they have equal representation...
The Germans are prone to extremes because whatever idea they institutionalize and accept socially, becomes “unquestionable.” You must follow the rules, or else your German neighbor inspecting your trash will turn you in for not recycling and the Ordnungsamt (Office of public order) will fine you.
What you can blame the Germans of, is group think at a epic level (from global warming to the ozone hole), mass conformity, and rule following even if it makes no sense. It is a German cultural trait and while it is nice that people don’t make noise after 10PM and you can sleep, it’s also a society where you are hammered into mindless submission by a society that also chases fads and stupid ideas just like here. Only here (US) you have more opposition and certain ideas of liberty that are largely accepted which constrain the stupidity. So in Germany if you want to raise your own children, sorry, no can do, the government mandates you send them to school even if you have the ability and desire to homeschool and can show/demonstrate that you can do as well or better. There is no thinking, just follow rules and do whatever everyone else does.
The ‘good germans’ are everywhere, even right here on FR