And we WILL accept it. We have accepted income tax, driver licensing, Social Security, gun laws, obamacare, airport feelups, and 50 million dead babies; we can accept anything.
That’s what scares me, Lady Lucky. I’m afraid that we can accept anything.
For the after-school program that I work with I’ve got a group of kids that are going to be trying to figure out how a whole nation of decent Germans could have tolerated the extermination of a million Jews. We’ll learn the mechanics of the whole thing, but in the end I hope they realize how easily we humans are deceived and how easily we abandon even supposedly core beliefs when the going gets tough.
As I look at what’s going on here in the USA it scares me. Freedom really is never more than a generation away from extinction. Even one generation of evil or brain-dead people can destroy everything this country is about. It can be gone with the snap of the fingers. What the kids will find out is that tyrants are like a computer trojan; all they need is to be let in and then they take over the whole system while the person who let them in stands aghast with no way to stop it.