Back in January I asked you twice to be alert—to be very, very alert. Again, I’m raising the “alert alarm.”
Much is happening in our country. So much that it is hard to keep up with it. Many of us don’t even want to. It’s too depressing. So we turn our TVs to food channels or old movies. Even many sports have been discarded as being too political. I ask you to stop that. Get mentally, and for as many as can, substantively engaged. I’ll tell you why.
We’ve heard a lot of talk about the far left wing of the Democrat party leading us to socialism, or even worse, communism. It dawned on me, as I was thinking about what I would write in this week’s blog post, that some are seriously scheming to go even farther than that. Not many people really understand the terms “socialism” and “communism.” Oh, yes, Russia and China have communism. And Venezuela is often brought up when socialism is being discussed. But I believe few people really know what those forms of government are. Anyway, it could never happen here in The United States of America. We eat, drink, and live on freedom and liberty. It’s in our Constitution. It can’t happen here.
Let me try a less-often used term on you: TOTALITARIANISM. Perhaps the first part of that word will get your attention. TOTAL.
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines totalitarian as 1) of or relating to centralized control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy and 2) of or relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation especially by coercive measures (such as censorship and terrorism) (Emphasis mine.) The country I connect immediately to totalitarianism is Hitler’s Germany.
The Britannica gives a brief history of Hitler’s coming into power. Here are two important paragraphs from it.
Hitler’s next step was to secure the passage of an Enabling Act, which would give the government the power to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and of the president. Passage required a two-thirds majority in the Reichstag. The 81 Communist deputies were either arrested or excluded. The support of the Nationalists and of the Centre Party (73 seats) was obtained by assurances and promises, and the Social Democrats who alone opposed the bill (March 23) were outvoted 441 to 94. The Enabling Act remained the constitutional basis of Hitler’s dictatorship. No new constitution was ever introduced to replace that of the Weimar Republic, and fresh laws were promulgated as they were required. Thus was the legal foundation of the Third Reich created.
Armed with overriding powers, which he had been careful to obtain without formally infringing on the principle of legality, Hitler proceeded to carry out a revolution with the authority of the state on his side. A series of decrees culminating in the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich (January 30, 1934) abolished the Land (state) diets and transferred the sovereign powers of the Länder to the Reich. . . . This was followed in the course of the summer by the suppression or “voluntary” dissolution of the other political parties. On July 14, 1933, the Nazi Party was formally declared to be the only political party in Germany.
My comparisons are these:
- Germany’s Enabling Act gave the government power to issue rulings independently of their Reichstag, which would compare to our Congress.
- The Enabling Act passage was only possible by eliminating dissenters, and lying to others to get them to vote for it. Plans are now being advanced to add seats in our Senate and enlarge the Supreme Court to enable far-left laws to be passed.
- U.S. presidents have preempted Congress with Executive Orders and Executive Actions.
- Immigration laws are being ignored to effect the dilution of the votes of American citizens.
- COVID-19 rules and regulations shut down our country, and regulated people’s lives and ability to earn a living. People were arrested for not wearing a mask.
- The Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich abolished state diets, which we know as our legislatures.
- HR1 and SR1 will transfer the power of state legislatures to control election
laws in their state, as stated in our Constitution, to the federal government. - Condemnation of local police and lack of criticism of mob violence is resulting in accelerated numbers of retirements from the force and fewer recruits, establishing a perceived need of the federal government to take over law enforcement. The U.S. Constitution says police power is the right of the states.
- HR1 and SR1 will transfer the power of state legislatures to control election
- The Weimar Republic confiscated all guns and turned an unarmed populace over to the Nazis. Owning a gun could result in execution. The Jews were unable to physically resist the Nazi troopers.
- Cory Booker would allow gun manufacturers to be found liable . . . when guns are used misused or trafficked
- Beto O’Rourke, when asked to confirm that he planned to mandate that Americans sell their guns, he said, “hell yes.”
- President Biden, when signing executive orders on gun control, said “No amendment is absolute.”
- Hitler said, “When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly
say, “Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”
- Our schools are becoming indoctrination camps. As examples:
- The 1619 Project
- Anthropogenic climate change
- History revisionism
- White supremacy
- Our schools teach almost nothing of the foundation and founders of our country, and what makes it the envy of the world.
- Our schools are becoming indoctrination camps. As examples:
I don’t make these assessments lightly. I do not foresee our government killing millions of people. The Nazi comparison stops way before that. It is only with the prospect of totalitarianism that I am becoming alarmed about the path before us.