A good definition of our Democratic party agenda, very scary stuff.
Fortunately for us all, while that may be a few people's goal, I don't think the analogy fits too well. Not too many people here are blind rule-followers to the core, just witness the wild swings of the left's love for the "rule of law" - which if the law allows them to do what they want, then, the rule of law is sacrosanct, and if it prevents them from doing what they want, then the law is tossed aside in an instant.
As an example, one moment they will be calling for Trump to be impeached as the next Hitler and trying to get Federal judges to undermine his every move as the highest elected official, and then turn around in the next instant and attempt to smuggle a previously twice deported illegal alien - on trial at that very instant for violent crimes, for which he has an extensive history - out through the judge's chambers to avoid ICE taking him into custody. And while I know some are sympathetic, some on the right let themselves be goaded (by what is now clearly a conspiracy) into attempting to invade congress and interfere with a
pro forma conduct of a perfectly lawful process.
Those are certainly not examples of blind rule-following that would be required to operate fundamentally evil state institutions, they are examples of people who judge things through their own values and act accordingly, mostly regardless of the rules. In other words, a nation of *individuals* who participate and cooperate based on their own beliefs, and push back when it rubs them the wrong way. And of course are in continual conflict with each other.
The very first reaction most Americans have to "orders" or "rules" they disagree with is to say (to themselves or out loud) "Who the hell are you to be giving me orders?" It makes for a somewhat chaotic country, and hard to "govern" - which is of course was the genius of the system set out by the founding fathers. It curries and then exploits that attitude to ensure that no central powers (local, state, federal) ever runs smoothly with perfect assurance, it is a continuous series of loud arguments. That is good, that is the goal, that is what keeps individuals enaged and free. They system abhors a monoculture of thought, and any time that happens, it propagates evil, but only to the next election, when the monoculture is almost always broken up by the collective genius of the American people.
You still have to guard against totalitarian forces, and still have to be able to recognize when things are running a bit too smoothly, but it is wildly against the nature of the American psyche to just go along with something they don't believe in just because it happens to be a rule. It works in *both directions*, left and right, and no matter which way you lean, you are counting on this basic nature to make the system work.
To my point above, that is the lesson I think the Germans have failed to learn. The Germans, on the whole, are not evil or corrupt people. Only a small band of evil people and their detailed philosophy were wrong. Somehow, then, you have to explain how a group of generally decent people managed to perpetrate some of the most morally corrupt and evil acts. The attitude of "following rules" and "going along" with things they don't believe in was/is the real root cause of the issue and enabled a small group to gain power and lead the rest into horrific crimes.
I hope I am wrong and that they are acting each to his own. In some ways, they wallow in their past with endless self-flaggelation over the guilt they supposedly carry - despite the fact that almost no one alive today had anything to do with it*. But even contemplating the idea of banning a *very popular* political party or inanimate objects bearing a particular symbol does not seem to be an indication that they actually "get it".
Brett
*Note that this, too, is another example or indication that they do not understand - almost no German alive to day actually holds any guilt or culpability in the crimes of the Nazis, any more than anyone alive in the USA today has any guilt or culpability for slavery, stealing land from the Indians, etc. The entire notion that this guilt somehow still falls on people today is another indication that they are thinking of themselves as a "group" whose members were indeed guilty, so they are, too. This is the sort of "group think" that caused the problem in the past and while the specifics are different, the attitude seems to be there as strong as ever.
Properly-formed *individuals* do not think that way. I am not responsible for anything my ancestors did, right or wrong.
Again, I hope I am wrong, but just about everything I see, from formal news reports to even youtube gags (like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xNCeG8sO-bQ?feature=share ) suggests otherwise.
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