ABOUT 420,000 AMERICANS DIED in World War II, fighting the Nazis and their allies but FOX Lies the Republican-fascist Party and others in the media are publicly encouraging the neo-Nazis in Germany to make a comeback.
I have pointed out how the idiocy of libertarian "free speech-press" in the United States turned the idea of learning even the hardest and most costly lessons of experience, the Civil War, the evil of slavery and Jim Crow, and even something as recent as WWII into nothing.
For the Warren Court-ACLU types the experience of witnessing the death camps of the Third Reich which was supposed to result in "never again" means yeah, let's risk that again. Libertarian notions of freedom without any responsibility, without any learning from even the worst of experience is among the stupidest relics of 18th century liberalism. How stupid that is can be seen in the American re-election of Trump after the disaster his first term was THE INTERVENING FOUR YEARS OF JOE BIDEN BRINGING THE COUNTRY BACK FROM THAT TO BEING THE ECONOMIC ENVY OF THE WORLD and the "free press" sandbagging him and going for Trump even bigger than it did in 2016 AND THE LIKES OF THE GODDAMNED NEW YORK TIMES WERE ALL-IN ON THAT.
There is a reason why American advocates of fascism and, yes, current German Nazism, VD Vance, Bannon, etc. are the biggest fattest proclaimers of "free speech." THAT ALONE SHOULD TELL YOU THAT THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY DANGEROUS ABOUT THE CURRENT FORMULATION OF THAT IDEA. They would certainly not allow "free speech" if they are able to solidify their control of this or any other country, there would be only the "free speech" that was fully and completely exercised in Third Reich Germany or, in fact, in North Korea right now praising the dictator, the dictatorship and its policies. The percentage of Germans who voted for the Nazis last weekend clearly have forgotten that lesson as clearly as the U.S. Supreme Court and the ACLU forgot America's war dead and the victims of the Nazis in Europe and American apartheid here far sooner. I will expand on that idea later.
Now the peroxide Aryan bitch, Laura Ingraham is cheering on German Nazis who are in fact, resurgent as Germans forget the even higher cost in lives lost and devestation that the Nazis brought their country. I warned about that in 2006, if anything I didn't understand just how bad it would be.
As the generation of the Second World War and it’s children pass on there is a strong danger that the Holocaust will fade from consciousness and it’s lessons will fade from peoples’ thoughts. Huge numbers of dead when viewed in the inverted telescope of history look smaller than they were close up. Our claim on the attention of the future will compete with the entire past and will be, I’m afraid, far less compelling than their present. We will not be there to press the case. The best we can do is leave a written record of what we have known. We can’t guarantee that the future won’t repeat the evils of the past.
As time goes on, as more recent piles of bodies and other horrors block them from view, even the Holocaust will fade in its meaning to those who are not part of the groups that were murdered. The relatively forgotten Armenian genocide is one example of this and the mass graves of those murdered in Central America by terrorists funded by the Reagan administration are entirely faded from the collective, active memory of the United States. The innocent Druz, slaughtered by the USS. New Jersey in retaliation for the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon never got into Americans minds having been effectively blocked out. Even where distance is not a factor, the memory of the thousands lynched here, in the United States itself, is always in danger of slipping from the attention of white people.
I am posting a anxious warning based on what I am hearing. Israelis should dump the neo-cons who are bringing them to disaster. Those idiots, from their comfortable perches in the American establishment are going to get a lot more Israelis and others killed. Let’s face another reality, a lot of them, Gentiles and Jews alike, are pretty unsavory characters who market themselves as “supporters of Israel”. Some seem to have made a very nice living for themselves based on this. Would peace be as profitable for them?
Their alliance with fundamentalist “christians” should be all the evidence you need of their stupidity if not duplicity. End timers have only two uses for Jews, especially Israelis. Jews are either to be converted to “christianity”, perhaps by force eventually, or they are extras waiting to die in their pre-enactment battle fantasies based on the Book of Revelations. As the events around Lebanon this month show, the fundamentalist ghouls can hardly wait for the real slaughter to begin. Their script calls for Israelis to die in the millions.
Failing the fundamentalists’ favorite wish, Americans of future times will grow weary of supporting Israel if it is engaged in endless wars, endless conflicts and, especially, if idiocy on the level of this war in Lebanon continues. A constantly attacked Israel will become increasingly militarized and isolated and paranoid. With that will come the destruction of democracy. A nationalistic, perhaps theocratic and despotic Israel is certainly nothing that the vast, vast majority of Israelis or Americans want to see. If someone can convince me that isn’t where it is headed I’d really really like to believe otherwise.
It's far later and far worse than I expected then. The libertarian liberalism invented by rich men in the 18th century is a flop for everyone else. It should be junked for responsible freedom but the language of our Constitution is too stupidly written for that to occur to the lawyers and judges and "justices" so we non-lawyers will have to do that if the worst of history is not to constantly recur.
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