Ocean Guy reminded me that this is the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Considering the world in which we live, complacency is a sin.
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*Chills* Thank you for posting this and to Ocean Guy.I still vividly recall my parents and grandparents describing that night…the silences, the indescribable looks on their faces. They were not even actually there, although (too) many other relatives were.
(I found you by accident; I was looking for the blog address of “another bookworm” blog friend of mine.)
I’ll be back to browse your site.
“Complacency is a sin.”
The very reason the American electorate rose up against Conservatist authoritarianism.
Greg, let it rest. Pause for a moment and get outside yourself and think about Kristallnacht and what it meant and what the world was like then and the victims and the perpetrators and the great, great sorrow. Kristallnacht has nothing to do with America today; it has everything to do humanity and morality and evil — things that it is good, from time to time, to quietly reflect upon.
As I am well aware. Which is why I quoted Bookworm in part. The lessons we hold to our breasts are the big ones, which we apply as our conscious leads. Current events and Republican deficiencies do not diminish historic losses. They honor them, humbly and appropriately, that we may never tread the road of fascist (Republican, I’m afraid) attack on diversity again.
Fascism gets into power via Democrat disarmament, and Socialist power restructuring. Once the power structure has been changed and revolutionized, the revolutionary left then becomes purged, in favor of the conservative hold for power most people think of when they see Hitler’s party and when they think about the right.
You would think that after so many examples of this, people would wise. But I guess not.
Greg, you really are clueless. American conservatism has always been about supporting individual rights over that of the State, your paranoid delusions about BushHitlerChimpyMcHaliburton’s purported police state notwithstanding. It is the Left (“Left” is a European concept, not an American concept)that has promoted State rights at the expense of the individual – just look at the recent Kelo decision of the Supreme Court, supported by all the Liberal/Left members of the court. Just for the record, since you’re not up on either your history or political philosophy, the NAZIs were Leftwing Socialists, not conservatives. Even Fascism (as defined by Franco and Mussolini) were about centralized State power. Now, sit down and take those meds!
The very name of the Nazi party has socialism in it. Now it is true that some crazy communist countries call themselves the “People’s Republic of whatever Haven”, so at best the Nazis were trying to emulate the socialists if assuming they weren’t really socialists. Anyone emulating the socialists, did it for a reason. Probably to purge them afterwards, sort of like Stalin did with Troutsky. Or was that Lenin’s operation. Sorry, not a Russian expert.
As other people have made the point here and elsewhere, before. Conservatives depend upon what they are trying to conserve. So the Aristocrat Tories in England, are conservatives but not like how American are conservatives. The founding principles of our country is not the aristocracy and class warfare. Therefore in order to get totalitarianism, you must destroy the conservatives first, because only by destroying the supporters of the US Constitution, can you get rid of the one thing that stands in your power.
Exactly, YM. Well put.
Y – Speaking of Facism getting into power via Democrat disarmament, check out the new series beginning appropriately today at American Thinker, “Christians, Pacifism, and the Sword’. I have asked for a bit about author’s background.
I’m a pagan ancestor worshipper for the most part, so naturally I would feel more solidarity with the Chrysanthemum and the Sword concerning Japanese culture, than with Christians and the Kingdom of God.
incidentally this was the link Marg, was refering to.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6028
Diversity, Greg? You of course are speaking of diversity of thought, where people of various mindsets sift through ideas and arrive at better and worse ways of addressing issues? Or do you speak of the gauzy, value-neutral acceptance of all options as worthy of embracing?
Neither, because Greg won’t embrance the Right goose steppers. So it must be a modified version of the former. I think Greg believes he is the Decider, he dispells illusion from truth, fact from fiction, and exposes the underlying darkness of lies with his ever illuminating Truth.