You may not be aware of the fact that
my BA program boss over me when I was acting director of the University Library’s Special Collections Dept
. . . my Boss then was and still is a world expert with the best private holdings of pre-Hitler pamphlets, posters, leaflets etc.
I was making fun [SOMEWHAT like you do] of some of the flakey stuff we collected—one of 2 universities in the USA to collect everything from the extreme left to the extreme right.
He exhorted me I was unwise.
He said it was
THE FLAKIEST GROUPS WHO MOST ACCURATELY AND EARLIEST PREDICTED WHAT HITLER WOULD DO AND THE SORT OF PERSON HE WAS.
I’ve studied globalism since 1965. I’ve watched the same phenomenon regarding globalism and a lot of other things.
Pristine high quality sources are often unavailable until decades later.
yes, and if you want flaky, who could have predicted the US would be in the mess we’re in and with a progressive, Marxist anti-American teleprompter -reading nobody supposedly in charge.
Damn good remark, and considering that Churchill was lumped in with the nutballs in those days - and was BANG ON about the emerging evils - a good illustration for your remark. Unfortunately the normal sanctimonious irritants amongst us seem to continue to deny out-of -the-box thinking and insist on their overwhelmingly bureaucratic or just plain ideological views. Useful more as supporting the out-of-the-box approaches in their whinging complaints.