By David Glenn Cox
Why does this feel like the last days of the Weimar Republic? Teetering on the brink of Fascism. Giddy with excitement and nervous with expectation, they assume everything will be wonderful…now.
“Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Ben Franklin
The Nazi Party worked long and hard to gain representation in the Reichstag so that they could choke it. Cram it full of bombastic nonsense until it didn’t work anymore. Then came the Enabling Acts giving Hitler full power. It was going to be wonderful! Hitler would fix everything! He said so himself. Then once the Enabling Acts were signed into law. Hitler had no further need of a Reichstag. The German Congress had basically passed a law doing away with themselves. Making themselves pointless and redundant.
I mention this only because a King has little need of a Supreme Court. In the King’s official acts, he has full immunity and may ignore the court’s rulings. The court said so by a 6 to 3 margin. It wasn’t even close. So, I’ll ask; what does a King need with a Supreme Court for again? “Thank you anyway! I’ll call you if I need you to approve something. And don’t forget to bring along your best rubber stamp!
During the opening days of Guantanamo and indefinite detention with the revelations about “stress positions” and “water boarding”. A wise man once predicted, “What they do to someone else’s child today they will do to your children tomorrow.” A flag and a bible won’t protect them once the hell hounds have been released. “You may be loyal comrade, but are you loyal enough?” Let us pray! I said! Let us Pray!
We could start every day with a prayer! And then, the schools will be wonderful! Start the day with a prayer, then the pledge of allegiance as the children all bow towards Maga Lago. Then we open our texts and learn how George Washington and his cowboy army with the help of Jesus whipped the Indians. Then more prayer and then lunch. If you don’t have a lunch children pretend you do, so as not to make the affluent children feel uncomfortable. “Don’t worry children, the undesirables will be gone soon.
Fascism feeds on corruption because it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. And because we are doing away a legitimate court system, who is to stop them if they have friends in high places? Does anyone know why the Nazis developed all those wonder weapons? They were so corrupt that they would buy literally anything with a bribe attached. A rifle that shoots around corners? Sure! How about a tank so bloated and oversized there was nothing on Earth big enough to move it. With a top speed of twelve miles per hour Berlin to Moscow could be achieved in less than two years! But we’d have to build new bridges.
But if the project had the Fuhrer’s blessing, it was full speed ahead. The Nazis might have had a jet fighter two years earlier, but Willie Messerschmitt was Herman Goering hunting buddy. They passed on Heinkel’s jet fighter and chose Willie’s instead. That’s what friends are for! You hunt together and drink together and help each other out together and damn the consequences! Always, always corruption over integrity.
Either you do what the King wants with a smile, or it could go hard on you. The King doesn’t like unhappy people and won’t suffer them for long. The following teachers are being removed from the school. The following children are being expelled for ethnic impurity or religious impiety.
You know Jim, you’ve been with us ten years now and you do good work. But I need to ask you about the bumper sticker on the back of your car. “Co-exist?” Is that some sort of sick joke? You know, we have a lot of government contracts! Get with the program Jim or get out!
Maybe some Fascist will suggest “Deep State” investigations looking for Liberals working secretly in the government. Or maybe, arrest Dolly Parton for promoting “wokeism!” We’ll get those subversive elements one way or another! “Hi, we’re your neighbors from up the street and we were wondering which church you attend? A Synagogue! Isn’t that special! We’ll just put a red mark by your name where it says, “Doesn’t believe in Jesus.”
Now, here’s the rub. This is what always sinks the Fascist boat every time. The goal isn’t to do good things, help people or make societal progress. The only goal is to please the boss. The boss’s only goal is to please their boss. If the ultimate boss is a corrupt imbecilic moron. The principle of shit rolling down hill applies. Nobody is looking and nobody is watching, take all you like on the Tiffany Henyard model. Don’t answer their pissy questions. Tell them to shut up or else! What can they do?
I know where you work! I know your boss! It says here you haven’t been to church in two months! Maybe what you need is a couple of months in the Sacred Bleeding Heart of Jesus Reeducation Camp, Plastics Factory and Maximum-Security detention center.
“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
― Vaclav Havel