I’ve got a group of middle-schoolers who are going to be researching with me how the Holocaust was able to be tolerated by the German people. I gave them some preliminary questions to help them organize the issue in their minds:
How was the system supposed to protect from this happening?
Why didn’t the system work to prevent this?
Did the people know it was happening?
I’ve been looking up Holocaust timelines so they can get abreast of the facts, and the thing that stands out is the role of the Reichstag Fire to get Hitler’s foot in the door so he could make the LEGAL/systemic changes that consolidated all power for him.
And now what you’re bringing out is Kristallnacht turning the propaganda into physical results against the targeted group.
What we’re seeing in this country is staggering. At some point these Congress-critters have to sue Obama in court so that his power grabs are ruled to be unconstitutional. If that doesn’t happen, then our system will have failed to protect us just like Germany’s system did. The German system failed because the people within it refused to fight. And we’ve got namby-pambies in Congress who still want to pretend this is about “reaching across the aisle”.
This is a full-out power grab by a tyrant, and if we don’t find somebody who will stand up to it so the system can protect us like it’s supposed to, this country is going to be torn limb from limb by the consolidated power of Obama’s handlers.
ping, if you haven’t seen this yet.