Back in the 1930s, in Europe, a strange conspiracy theory spread throughout the land. Crazy crackpots were spreading a rumor that a man wanted to take over the world, that his followers thought they could exterminate an entire race of people, that--like the bogeyman--they were coming for all of us. Yikes!
While a few people fell for this and actually packed up and moved to another country where they felt "safe," many disbelieved this nonsensical rumor--to their own detriment!
In fact, millions of people--Jews, gypsies, communists, labor leaders, religious leaders, dissenters who refused to do what they were told, children and adults both--were imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The atrocities Hitler and the Nazis committed were so horrific that they are hard to believe, even today. Yep, some people are holocaust deniers. They still think it is a conspiracy theory!
Nazis tossed babies in the air and shot at them. They forced victims to dig massive graves then shot them, letting them fall into the hole they'd dug for themselves. They turned children against parents, friends against neighbors. They murdered so many people, they ran out of space to bury the corpses and actually had to have the bodies shipped to other regions where there was more earth space. Even doctors, who'd been trained to save lives, participated in torture and murder, conducting cruel medical experiments.
Most of us are nice people, so we have trouble understanding that there are people who are not. In fact, the Nazi ideals live on. There are still--and have always been!--people who want power. They seek to control us, our every move. They don't want us to express opinions or ideas different from their own. Hitler relied on people to spy on each other. People turned each other in: "He's not a good Nazi! I heard him say he doesn't like Hitler's mustache!" People turned in their own mothers and fathers when given the opportunity!
They turned each other in because they were afraid. Show them YOU are a good Nazi and maybe YOU will be saved. Save yourself!
Fact is, the Jewish people of the 1930s were a lot smarter than us. They weren't glued to their TV set or smartphone all day. They were reading, studying text, thinking deep thoughts about the meaning of life and why we're all here. Point is, these were not stupid people! Theirs was not an idiocracy. As Wiesel writes in his book, the ghetto was "ruled by delusion."
Let's learn from history, shall we? Rich or poor, male or female, black or white, college grad or not, we can all face current reality. Going into denial won't help us.
They want us controlled, afraid to talk to each other, afraid to gather in large groups. This is not an effort to keep us healthy. (If that were true, the FDA wouldn't be allowing all those carcinogens to be put in our foods.) This is an effort to quell rebellion. They are shutting down dissent.
They took away our 4th Amendment with the Patriot Act. Now, they are taking away our 1st Amendment.
We need to stop referring to the United States as a democracy or a republic. We, the people, have no voice. They have marginalized us, turning our homes into prisons. How much longer are we going to continue wearing masks and being afraid to socialize? Are we going to dig our own graves like the victims of the Holocaust did at gunpoint so long ago?
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