But most just shook their heads; and one "Bible-thumper" utterly refused to consider any but the most narrow view of the German people, that they were evil, having conspired to commit "the Holocaust."
Well, it seemed that nobody was listening, and that perhaps I'd been too practical with the evidence; I'd not made it easier, the sorrow-full road to the Germans' moral decay, whereby they turned away from helping one another.
One lady, however, after each contest of my points when I was hammered a bit by various others, would stand up and level the crowd. They were amazed. I was impressed.
She stood up for liberty and admonished them for their hope-less-ness which affected their view and prevented their further understanding.
She knew what it is like to lose liberty. She knew what it is like to want it, to fight for it, but especially to know what it is like to have fought for it, to have died for it, to be lost in that fight for ever, to have no record of your sacrifice ... and to have been judged with your countrymen, to be simple, in a manner of speaking.
Means, written off --- without a gain, the incorrect conclusion is "never ventured."
Hitler & Co. killed off his political opposition, beginning in the late 1920's.
Easy to say that the German people were anti-Semitic, because who of them survived to prove that "all or nothing thinking" to not be the case?
Not all heterosexuals who have the homosexual syndrome, are alike; they are not a group. All people with diabetes are not alike. All people with depression are not alike.
Among them, there are some fruitcakes. Same for lawyers, doctors, dentists, presidents, and members of the "liberal media."
The socialists' agitprop is that those who have homosexual syndrome, are under assault as a group; but they are not, as a group.
Walk up and down a street around noon, downtown, and you see heterosexuals, that is how we are born.
Among the passersby, who has homosexual syndrome? Who has chronic fatigue syndrome?
I've never seen even one identified and jeered, taunted, abused or in any way mistreated.
Americans do not like injustice. What can be made to appear the target of unjust attacks, will garner sympathy and often some defense; "something must be done about it."
But what really is under attack?
Well, in the political pandemonium and the glare of the klieg lights, it's ... it's ...
What the socialists would have people believe is gut-wrenchingly wrong, is actually theatre.
It's theatre.
Lot of people are moved by theatre.
John Walker Lindh is on trial for doing something bad against the United States of America. A skilled lawyer could make him to be a defendant in a parallel trial that is political theatre, in order to stage, repeat stage, a defense complete with a script that will be widely read, "published" free of charge by the media.
It is times like these, when you turn on the house lights and the agitprops around the stage are revealed to be just that: props supporting a fantasy.
If you disturb people from that, yes indeed, you may ruffle many feathers.
But again, when the water is rising, you are running out of room to breathe.