“As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other
side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.”
Adolf Hitler
Why
quote Hitler? Wasn’t he insanely evil? Certainly. Wasn’t he an idiot? Hardly.
He nearly took over the world, and idiots don’t go in the history books. Actually
Hitler was a genius at manipulating masses of people into thinking what he
wanted them to think. He played on the German people’s fears and vanity like a grand
piano.
You might
think.. “That was Germany
in the 40’s” We’re smarter than that now.
Are we? Listen to how today’s terrorism
is characterized in the media and by our most powerful men- “you’re either with
us or with the terrorists” “They hate us because we’re free..” Today’s
politicians certainly learned a few things from Adolph Hitler.
Did you
know the United States
has been in the middle east bombing them for over 10 years? We’ve been over
there occupying their land, trampling on what they consider holy ground, and in
the process, killing innocent civilians. They don’t “hate us because we’re
free” as we’ve been told. They hate us because when a man’s son dies from one
of our bombs, the other joins a terrorist group to try to get us out of there.
How would we feel if some country had troops on our soil, killing our families?
I hear it said that listening, even briefly, to our enemies is dangerous. Do
you know what I find dangerous to believe in this day and age? That our
politicians have our best interests at heart. To continue to trust a government
that has demonstrated nothing but greed, corruption, and views that get sold to
the highest bidder. To continue believing any words of an entire class of
people who say one thing, then do another.
This
is not the America
I learned about in school. Look around at the TSA pat-downs, the banishment of
unpopular views, the manipulation of the press through consolidation of
ownership. Is this the America so many have died to protect?
Jason Shaw
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