Posted on 07/01/2021 3:27:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
"It's unbelievable that Adolf Hitler was able to manipulate and control the entire German population. It just seems impossible."
I've noticed that whenever the subject of Nazi Germany is raised, someone always says something like this: "It's unbelievable that Adolf Hitler was able to manipulate and control the entire German population. It just seems impossible."
Yet that's exactly what he did. Yes, there were some dissenters and political foes, but they were subdued and quashed as the boundless power of the Nazi regime shut down all dissent with the use of the brown-shirted Sturmabteilung or SA, the Schutzstaffel or SS, and the dreaded Gestapo or Geheime Staatspolizei.
Perhaps a bit of context is in order here. I spent three years in Germany with the Army Security Agency involved in SIGINT (intelligence derived from electronic signals and systems used by foreign targets). I am fluent in German, my wife is German, I have studied German history, and I keep up with current events in the country.
Like a lot of Americans, I always assumed that America was safe from the kind of tyranny the German people experienced under the heavy hand of the Third Reich. There is no way our federal, state, and local governments could restrain and control the American people the way Hitler and his Nazis dominated the German population, I thought.
Yet, for the past eighteen months, that's exactly what has happened in America.
A nation that always prided itself on its independence and individuality was suddenly locked down. Travel was restricted, schools and businesses were shuttered, we were commanded to wear face masks, voting laws were altered, isolation and quarantines were mandated, and speech was censored by social and mainstream media if Big Tech oligarchs judged what was said or written as "misinformation."
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And there are also those who are willing to shoot dead unarmed nonviolent protesters if they happen to be on the right.. :(
Hitler and Mussolini took a lot from Lenin’s playbook. What we’re seeing is something new though (with some plays from the same old playbooks). There’s a lot of Huxley mixed in with Orwell and much oligarchic or plutocratic corporatism thrown in with socialism.
People who didn't understand or appreciate the notion of, "American exceptionalism," are about to do so by virtue of its disappearance. Like the air we breath, it's something few give much thought to until they suddenly find it gone.
Many people, including a good number on our side, view the lurch towards tyranny as some strange, unprecedented, incomprehensible abandonment of freedom. It is in fact, a return to the baseline standard of human history from which we enjoyed a brief 200 year respite.
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Whatever you do, don’t mention the war...
Except that Nazi was brought to power by a vote. That was 2020 for us. AS to politics, Nazi socialist = communist in all but name: assume power, murder all those who resist.
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