This pull-quote from an out-of-print from an historian who interviewed average Germans in Germany about how they could support a genocidal dictatorship from 1933 to 1945.
I find this pull quote most alarming, because in my opinion, this adroitly illustrates how most Americans and most posts I am reading here on FR are accepting this fundamental transformation from a republic to a fascist oligarchy now ruling us.
History repeats, because we forget and choose to ignore history, thinking that kind of thing cannot happen here. Yet the voices from the past not only warn us, they are screaming at us that it is already here, and we refuse to recognize it.
Mostly because we set aside our principles for expediency. We lie to ourselves that tomorrow will be the same as it was yesterday, and we go through the delusional exercise of practicing insanity by telling ourselves we will fix it the next election cycle by simply electing more of the same.
The German people did not recognize nor care that they lost their Republic, and apparently - neither do we Americans at the end of 2014.
1 posted on
12/15/2014 9:55:50 PM PST by
INVAR
To: INVAR
we also thought we were safe.
2 posted on
12/15/2014 9:59:46 PM PST by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: INVAR
Change the anti-semitism towards Jews to anti-Conservatism today and you can see that the skids are already greased for a ‘cleansing’ of those the State say are a thorn in the side of society.
3 posted on
12/15/2014 10:02:24 PM PST by
INVAR
("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: INVAR
I care, you care, most here care.
However how many of those will sacrifice their life, their families, their well being, and livelihoods to turn it around?
Dying on their feet instead of begging on their knees?
It only takes a few good men to stand up against the horde of evil. Where are they? See my tag-line.
5 posted on
12/15/2014 10:15:42 PM PST by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: INVAR
"they are screaming at us that it is already here, and we refuse to recognize it. "I recognize it- that's why I call them demonazis.
7 posted on
12/15/2014 10:35:16 PM PST by
matthew fuller
(Barak Hussein Obama (Benghazi Barry)- the first step into a thousand years of darkness.)
To: INVAR
The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the holidays.That's a laugh!
10 posted on
12/15/2014 10:49:57 PM PST by
dr_lew
To: yorkiemom; null and void; laplata; Gluteus Maximus; Salvavida; Foundahardheadedwoman; baddog 219; ..
CWII Spark Ping The world you live in - your nation, your people - is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed.
This is from a historian who interviewed Germans about the `33-`45 timeframe.
15 posted on
12/18/2014 6:11:42 PM PST by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: INVAR
16 posted on
12/18/2014 6:55:51 PM PST by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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