Lest some of you think I'm a left-wing nut that tosses out a comparison of an incompetent, immoral president to the greatest evil-doer of the 20th century, let me assure you that that is not the purpose of this diary. However, some of you have put some diaries together that explain in detail how democracies are led down the path to dictatorships--and how this administration seems to follow down that same path.
Well today, we had just one more small example. What is frightening is the parallel to what Hitler did over half a century ago.
Sara Taylor refused to answer questions on the attorney's firing that she claimed would violate the president's claim of executive privilege. She claimed she did not have to answer the subpoena from Congress because of the oath she took. She said that as a former commissioned officer of the executive branch: "I took an oath and I take that oath to the president very seriously."
What is freaky is that I just finished watching a documentary yesterday on Hitler's rise to power. HE changed the oath of the army so they would take an oath---not to Germany, not to their Constitution, not to their people--but to Adolf Hitler.
I remembered my oath of enlistment. I thought, man, I can't believe no one cut up about that.
Yet here is an unqualified zealot, formerly in a position of power, who had to get lectured on what she should have already known.
Leahy lambasted her. He told her that her oath was "to uphold the Constitution". "Your oath is not to uphold the president!"
For all we know, maybe it was...