One of the biggest revelations concerns a question that has always plagued me: How does one explain the "good German," the term used to describe the average, presumably decent German, who did nothing to hurt Jews but also did nothing to help them and did nothing to undermine the Nazi regime? The same question could be asked about the average Frenchman during the Vichy era, the average Russian under Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev and their successors, and the millions of others who did nothing to help their fellow citizens under oppressive dictatorships.
What has changed my thinking has been watching what is happening in America (and Canada and Australia and elsewhere, for that matter).
The ease with which tens of millions of Americans have accepted irrational, unconstitutional and unprecedented police state-type restrictions on their freedoms, including even the freedom to make a living, has been, to understate the case, sobering.
Half of America, the non-left half, is afraid to speak their minds at virtually every university, movie studio and large corporation -- indeed, at virtually every place of work. Professors who say anything that offends the left fear being ostracized if they have tenure and being fired if they do not. People are socially ostracized, publicly shamed and/or fired for differing with Black Lives Matter, as America-hating and white-hating a group as has ever existed. And few Americans speak up. On the contrary, when BLM protestors demand that diners outside of restaurants raise their fists to show their support of BLM, nearly every diner does.
I have come to understand the average German living under Nazism and the average Russian living under communism for another reason: the power of the media to brainwash.
As a student of totalitarianism since my graduate studies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University's School of International Affairs (as it was then known), I have always believed that only in a dictatorship could a society be brainwashed. I was wrong. I now understand that mass brainwashing can take place in a nominally free society. The incessant left-wing drumbeat of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and almost every other major newspaper, plus The Atlantic, The New Yorker, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, all of Hollywood and almost every school from kindergarten through graduate school, has brainwashed at least half of America every bit as effectively as the German, Soviet and Chinese communist press did (and in the latter case, still does). That thousands of schools will teach the lie that is the New York Times' "1619 Project" is one of countless examples.
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This is an awesome Article, well written, articulated, and in my opinion, so true as to what is taking place right now in real time!!!
Will there come a point a vast majority of us raise up, up on a huge scale, to unite, fight this nonsense, however this might look?
We all can do our part, which is, show your zest for freedom, embrace life, don't conform to unlawfulness from mouthpieces, or Fake MSM, speak truths, but don't go along to get along, in my opinion. This might be a start but we need to finish this power-play by not letting go of Freedoms because of Fear Propaganda pushed daily, next comes the patty wagons to take us away, then everyone will wish we had done something, right!??? American's are being deceived, and foolishly given in, why? Don't know. Maybe it's a Fad, and then we all wake up, tired of conforming, and ignore made up regulations, laws, etc... Might get ugly but so what, they got real ugly since 9/11 if paying attention, in my opinion. This Article is a warning to beware, all need take heed, and thank-you to Author! (:
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