Nazi Germany, Rwanda, or Both?

The Niemoller lament that used to be frequently quoted "First they came for the communists" is never mentioned by the Vichy Democrats of today.

In the American case, it was "First they came for Alex Jones" and most self-identified liberals said nothing, although honest liberals like Glenn Greenwald and Caitlin Johnstone did speak up.

In the ensuing years, more and more censorship and bannings have taken place, but still the latte liberals are silent, or supportive.

Last year, they cheered on the mobs in the streets openly hunting down citizens wearing MAGA hats, culminating in the execution of a Trump-supporting man on the streets of Portland. The lawlessness and violence of the mobs, reminiscent of the mobs in Rwanda who hunted down and killed Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were supported and defended by the Democrats and their allies. A widely traveled Brit who visited Portland last year said that he was shocked to see graffiti on the walls calling for the murder of journalist Andy Ngo, (who had previously been beaten so badly by a mob that he suffered a subdural hemmorhage). He pointed out that that kind of violent intimidation is not usually seen in democratic countries, and he wondered why the authorities allowed it to stand. Why indeed.

Now our ruling overlords have moved into imprisoning political opponents, and instead of finally speaking up at this escalation of state oppression, Democrats openly gloat, including celebrating the well-known horrendous conditions of US prisons, which include inedible food and widespread rape of inmates. I saw a thread celebrating the arrest of a married couple who had entered the Capitol on Jan. 6th, who the poster said were prisoners 523 and 524, in which a series of commenters cheered on their impending weight loss from inedible food and rape by guards or other prisoners. There are over 500 American citizens now in jail, some in solitary confinement, for the crime of trespassing on public property (after the security guards opened the doors and let them in), but this is seen as a righteous step by the commenters.

As Steven Weinberg pointed out "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” In this case, the self-righteousness of the woke totalitarians comes not from organized religion, but their unshakeable belief that they are morally superior and thus entitled to wipe out the impure citizens who dare to disagree with them.

It looks like we are going to have a mixture of Nazi Germany, with organized state repression of all dissent, and Rwanda, where citizens take up arms and hunt down their political enemies. I am appalled and dismayed.