A year ago now I wrote the following blog. I thought it appropriate to repeat it on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville riots. Little appears to have changed. The far-right continues to march and threaten. Our government drifts even more into intolerance and corruption. The nations Supreme Court seems to be on the verge of becoming irreparably broken. The only possible brake on this drift into full-blown fascism appears to be a tepid press, the hope of reversal by a rigged and compromised public election process and the effectiveness of an indomitable team of investigators with limited ability to implement their findings.
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The title of this post may appear overbroad. I am sure some people will be happy to point out the many differences between the two events. But, look at it this way:
We have a group of heavily armed men attacking mostly innocent civilians. In this case, breaking bodies instead of glass, but the message is all too similar. The response of progressives or right thinking citizens and social media is to express shock and outrage but also urge calm. Meanwhile, the evil buffoon heading the nation at first supports the thugs and then realizing they may be becoming politically dangerous and not under control issues a tepid criticism of them.
Imagine then — what if the Nation’s leader and his cronies create an anti-terrorism entity to subdue these Alt-right terrorists and all other groups or individuals they or the entity decides are terrorists? Sounds Familiar, doesn’t it? Did that not happen not too long after Kristallnacht with the suppression of Brown Shirts and their replacement with the SS. Could it happen here in America? No, well think again.
Just a few weeks after Charlottesville, the Leader of the Nation reversed an order of the prior President and permitted the release the Nation’s stockpile of military hardware to local police departments in order to combat terrorism.
Meanwhile, the Progressives and others will probably still call for a reasoned careful response that will not place their supporters in harm’s way or to wait for the hoped-for return of the rule of law and reason.
This is madness. Shouldn’t we now rather think about what the German Progressives, liberals, and people of good sense the very morning following Kristallnacht could have done to prevent the catastrophe that ultimately occurred?
Like then, this is no time for tepid hopes and half steps. Like it or not, the war has already begun and we either confront it now or we certainly will suffer its consequences later.
Fascism and the politics of hate have no place in any just society. It is time for Americans to throw back at these evil gangsters their own slogan and say, “No more, Not in our Country and Not on our Soil.” It is time to act massively. And if it comes to millions of citizens surrounding the White House and dragging these criminals out by their heels so be it.
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