After all, there had never really been a fascist takeover of a nation before. That the educated, sophisticated, orderly, and relatively wealthy Germans of the 1930s could be duped into following a cabal of racist, violent, rapacious Nazis into disaster is easier to forgive than the super-informed society of today as it rapidly falls victim to fascist ideology.
Today’s Americans – and by extension, the European democratic republics and other advanced nations – are well familiar with the process by which Hitler rose from obscurity, disrupting a weak democracy and then consolidating corporate and military power into a brutal, profitable, almost unstoppable tyrannical machine.
Ever since World War II, comparisons to Nazi Germany have been hurled at political leaders on the left and the right relentlessly as a check to their ambitions. An unending stream of books and movies and journalism has dissected the 1930s ad infinitum.
And yet, when actual fascism rises within our own midst, we sit quietly by like the middle class Jews of 1937 in Europe who despite the signs all around them, still would not believe that man’s inhumanity to man could reach the depths that soon had them carted like cattle in box cars to remote locations to be incinerated.
The signs of another wave of fascism are all around us today. At first when we heard that major cultural icons like Google or the NBA or even the Catholic Church were seeking to operate within China, we assumed that would be a good thing, an opening of a brutal closed society to ideas of freedom and opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. And yet today we see that Google aids and abets the the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party (the CCP); that the NBA squelches all criticism of China within its ranks, like Ford Motor Company of the 1930s which supported the Nazis hoping for exclusive distribution throughout Europe; and that even the Catholic Church, despite its very suspect record re collaboration with the Nazis, allows the CCP to appoint its Chinese bishops while Christian churches in general are being persecuted and in fact, snuffed out.
And meanwhile, the CCP puts hundreds of thousands of “undesirables” in concentration camps, jails and deports opposition in Hong Kong, and builds its military and territorial domination relentlessly. Stateside, the Democrat Party (the DNC) appeases the CCP and other enemies of America around the world, cancelling investigation of China’s spy network and looking the other way from bribes and kickbacks at work within the political elite. And the DNC even emulates the CCP bastards, pushing senseless mask mandates and vaccine passports among other outrages in an obvious rehearsal of further incursions on the Bill of Rights to come in short order.
In the true story depicted in the 2002 film The Pianist, there is a pivotal scene in which the middle class Jewish family of the title character, Wladislaw Szpilman, learns for the first time of the Nazi regulations mandating the wearing of the Jewish star on armbands in public in occupied Warsaw. Wladislaw and his brother, normally at each other’s throats, both swear they will never wear the armband, while the rest of the family meekly submits. The brother is arrested for resisting clumsily, and he and rest of the family are incinerated at Treblinka. Only Wladislaw, through wile and bravado and help from righteous key people who recognize his genius and the evil zeroing in on him, survives the Nazi occupation.
What example are we to follow? Will the American goose be cooked by the occupation of an illegitimate administration, a feckless and corrupt Congress, and a supine Court, or will we follow Wladislaw’s example and through every possible means subvert the will of the oppressors at home and abroad? We have the lesson from history. The Europeans of the 1930s did not. One can only hope their sacrifice serves as our inspiration.
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