Posted on 10/27/2021 3:03:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Evil may attack us, but sometimes it takes a pause, lulling us into complacency before striking with greater force. After Germany rolled over Poland in 1939, inflicting half a million casualties in one week, Europe went strangely quiet for a six-month period, ironically dubbed the “Phoney War.”
Hitler had been considered by many to be nothing more than a vulgar barking dog until Poland was crushed by the German military machine, which was not even supposed to exist according to the terms of the 1918 Armistice.
But the Blitzkrieg, the lightning strike on Poland, put the world on notice: the Germans had an army and weren’t afraid to use it. But then, surprising everyone, Germany appeared to lay down quietly to gnaw on Poland, while secretly muscling up in preparation for adding Norway, Denmark and France to its portfolio. At the Nuremberg trials after the war, General Alfred Jodl admitted that Germany would have easily been defeated in 1939 had Britain and France acted quickly. Instead, they held their breath while Germany caught up to, and surpassed, Allied strength.
In that strangely silent interim, the British people tentatively inched their way back towards normal. Dodged a bullet, they thought. Whew. In a profound misunderstanding of the nature of evil, they hoped it was over.
It’s a fatal error to believe that evil can be satisfied. It needs to cram more and more down its maw, and it has an ever-expanding cavity. As C. S. Lewis mythologizes in The Great Divorce, the only way to deal with evil is to kill it. “The gradual process is of no use at all.”
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Immediately after the coup most conservatives went straight back to the Uniparty (R). “We just need to follow Fox to get our information, send the GOP $, take back the house in ‘22, repeal Obamacare and Huzzah!” The DC republicans, who serve as nothing more than Judas goats to conservatives, are going to now save us. There’s no phoney war going on now. The assault on the country and constitution by the corporate DC republicans and the entire national leftist fascist machine continues at full bore in congress, the media, our schools and big tech.
well stated!
First purge the police and military of freedom lovers, free thinkers: antivaxers.
A lot of moronic shut-ins on FR still dutifully watch those scumbags.
Tucker is just so good at reading the rants his producers write for him.
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