[devere]

This article is well written, but it is obviously nonsense.

How can one be an “individualist” in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia?

Our freedom came from George Washington and his army, and was codified into the US Constitution. Once one generation of freedom-loving Americans stops taking an interest in politics, the next generation will find that the freedom to be an individualist is gone.

[terryt]

This article is well written, but it is obviously nonsense.

You missed the point. Our freedoms to be an individualist have been significantly eroded and the trend is in a downward spiral as the author states.

What the author is saying is that we may not be able to stop the downward spiral through the standard political process. The masses have been indoctrinated by the MSM and educational systems to the point that a majority believes in collectivism; some completely, some in one meaningful way or another. Witness the language of both major political parties. Both bow to the opinion of the MSM and their legions. It is becoming more and more rare for true conservative, individualist concepts to be discussed openly and without tempering the ideas for fear of rebuke.

The current Presidential election illustrates the author's points...we have an choice between a clear Marxist and a Republican who sounds more like he would belong with the old-time Democrats. Collectivist rhetoric is flowing without raising an eyebrow and seems to be becoming mainstream.

What the author is saying is that a republic may be necessary, but as we are sadly witnessing, it is not sufficient to save us from the tyranny of the masses.

[YHAOS]

”How can one be an “individualist” in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia?”

By being snitched on by a Hitler Youth zealot, or by a terrified landlady who told lies about her tenants if she couldn’t find anyone to genuinely turn in to the Gestapo (in the case of the Germans). Not all Germans were “good” Germans. They committed sabotage, they passed on information, they even planted a bomb under Hitler’s conference table in his eastern Wolf’s Lair. And, they died; by the thousands. Often under exquisite torture. They were gunned down in the streets, and in the basements of government buildings. They died from starvation and abuse behind the barbed wire of the same camps that claimed the lives of millions of Jews, of gypsies and dwarfs, and all the other “mental defectives” of Eastern Europe. And from Tiananmen Square, to the killing fields of Cambodia; from the Gulags of Siberia to the re-education camps of Vietnam, there is no reason to believe that the last chapter of this human tragedy has been written.