The Nazification of America

Since at least the dawn of the 20th century in America, there have been those who advocate for continued increase of governmental control.  American idiom labels this political philosophy as left, leftist, progressive, or liberal.  It has generally lived in the Democratic Party over the last 110 years or so.



Adolph Hitler

One can think of politics in general as being divided into one of two broad categories.  The first is a centralized focus of control, the other is a dispersed, or population, focus of control.  In other words, does the sovereignty of a nation reside in the hands of a central few, or in the hands of the populace?  In political terms, socialism advocates central control.  Notice that socialism, although touted primarily as an economic system, is also its own political system.

In order to achieve a socialist society, rights must NECESSARILY be taken from the populace and placed into the hands of the very few, or of the one.

The prelude to this take over is a predictable formula: 1) indoctrinate the young, 2) disarm the populace, 3) create (or exploit) a crisis, 4) discredit and marginalize the opposition.

Do yourself a favor and learn all you can about he rise of Nazi Germany because this is the exact formula that Hitler used to achieve power in the 1930's.

Germany, before Nazism, was the intellectual flower of Europe.  It had more Nobel laureates than any country on Earth.  It was also the home of the best theological thinkers.

How then, did it become the home of the most debased, tyrannical system Europe has ever seen? 

That is the question upon which you must focus.


Following the devastation of WWI, Germany was thrown into chaos and hardship, especially economic hardship.  The countries against whom Germany fought sought and secured retribution from the German people.  While perhaps satisfying at the time, this retribution placed a burden on Germany that was so large that it served as a focal point of unity amongst the disenfranchised German citizens.  The man who spotted this disenfranchisement as his crisis to exploit was Adolf Hitler.



Exploiting a Crisis

In America today, the crises need to be manufactured rather than identified, because there are no real crises to exploit.  Endless harangues about rampant racism flood the mass media and is, in my view, one the manufactured crises of the left.  It falls in line with the general tendency of the left to create victims of certain subgroups of American citizens and then set themselves up as the saviors of these various subgroups.


Indoctrinate the Young


Also, the left has been steadily, almost stealthfully, overtaking the education of our youth.  Not only in formal elementary, secondary, and university education, but also in daycare.  Consider just one small, seemingly innocent, cause of the left: universal daycare.  Ostensibly, their concern about providing daycare is their care of, and concern for, the welfare of the family, but the real issue is about who is filling young minds with ideas.

The concept of universal daycare as a political tool is not new: it was also used to great effect by the Nazis.


Disarmament

Another hallmark of the prelude to takeover is disarming the populace.  From the point of view of those who want to rule, disarmament is critical.  If one can render a population defenseless, the road to tyranny is well-paved.

In America, our right to be armed is guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution:

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free-state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

In Germany, the Nazis demanded that a central registry of firearms be created for the ostensible purpose of aiding in the investigation of, and, therefore, lowering the rate of, crime.  The populace thought this sounded reasonable and voluntarily complied.  Soon thereafter, however, it was "determined" by Nazi officials that the anticipated decrease in crime had not occurred, therefore it was decreed that all firearms must be surrendered.  This task was simplified by the fact that those in power had a list of all the firearms in the country.  At that point, disarming the German populace was a fait accompli.

The purpose of keeping and bearing arms, according to our constitution, is to maintain "the security of a free-state."  It is not, as some on the right claim, for the purpose of defending ourselves against the common criminal, although it does serve that purpose as an added benefit.

When it comes to the second amendment rights, nothing less than our continued existence as a free society is at stake.  Do not forget this.  Do not be persuaded by reasonable-sounding arguments that gun control legislation is primarily concerned with crime reduction.  It is most emphatically not!  But, even if it were, it would ring hollow because, in America, the cities with the strictest gun control laws have the highest crime rates.  Just look at the homicide states from Chicago.

Gun control is a policy that fails at each and every level of scrutiny.

We are currently living in a time of considerable danger to our continued freedom.  The left has had almost complete control of our education system for several decades and we are now seeing the fruit from those seeds.  The young adults in America aren't simply left-leaning, increasingly, they are openly socialistic.


It has happened slowly, incrementally in small, additive decisions, each of which seemed unimportant in itself.  Remember the frog who begins in a comfortable vat of water but ends up boiled to death with small, seemingly unimportant increases in temperature.  This if how the left operates, a little at a time.  Always keep this in mind.

TheCurmudgeon