To Be on the Losing Side of History?
by Loren Adams – June 28, 2009
I've oft imagined how ordinary Germans felt when finally
coming to the tortuous realization their country was on the wrong side of
history and international law. What was it like to smell the stench of a
million rotting corpses piled up just a short step from their cottages and
pristine country estates? What were they thinking when listening to their
führer via radio – bragging about victories over enemy strawmen which
were propped up to justify Germany's divinely commissioned war against
"terrorism"? Did it ever cross their minds, at least once –
every word was a deliberate lie intended to persuade the masses to grant more
control to a government already drunk with power bent on world domination?
And what of the churches and the so-called Christians, the
chosen ones? Did not congregants question the authenticity of the Leader's
Christianity when claiming Providence commanded him to invade Austria, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Poland and so forth? Initial victories seemed to validate
Hitler's claim of divine approval. "Winning" always confirms God's
perfect will, does it not? (At least dogma embraced by heretics arrives at such
a conclusion.) Yet when allied forces were at the gates, what went through
their minds?
It's easy to claim, "I'm not with stupid," after
one has voted for such inept leadership more than once. But it's disloyal to
the Constitution and the Republic to go further and grant permission slips to
an absolute liar and crook determined to declare illegal wars built on
well-constructed pretexts and enabled with cooked intelligence. After all, the
decision was arrived at years before landing office.
Put yourself in the shoes of German resistance. Through make-believe
of your time-machine visualize going underground and enlisting with the White
Rose Society. See how many Jews you can snatch from the jaws of torture and
death, the gas chambers and mass burial trenches.
Now, fast-forward 70 years later. What was going through
voters' minds that assisted GW Bush to power? Is there not an ounce of remorse
now that everyone can see the total wreck he made of the nation?
Similar to Nazis vilifying Jews, the right-wing [encouraged
by Bush] demonized Muslims, Democrats, liberals, and anyone else that crossed
them in their quest for power and the establishment of one-party rule.
Of course, the Bush era wasn't nearly as bad as Nazi
Germany. But they are of similar vein – the dehumanizing, pompous spirit
that proclaims, "We are the super race, God's chosen people. Therefore,
everyone else is beneath us, no better than animals and material resources to
be exploited or dispensed of at will. Because God is on our side; we are
the exceptional ones, the nation that sits on a hill above all the rest
spreading the light of freedom and righteousness to the four corners of the
globe."
Do you sense how this spirit of superiority parallels the
30s and 40s? Germany was mesmerized by a nationalistic fervor where pageantry
and symbolism supplanted justice and equality. USA was mesmerized by a similar
nationalistic fervor where flags and lapel pins meant much more than true
patriotism. The administration, so full of chicken-hawks, placed ceremony above
service; they never served, yet demanded others die for their premeditated wars
constructed on lies. Do you see how parallel attitudes could lead to similar
consequences?
Only after German cities turned to ash did they wake to the
truth. Only after America's cities were rapidly deteriorating did voters
finally decide to throw the bums out (at least on a temporary basis). Was
America's awakening too late?
I wonder how long will the nation allow Barack Obama to mend
fences? Most Americans are not bright enough to read the writing on the wall in
order to prevent the nation from again being sucked into another power-grab by
the vengeful right. Cheney wishes for another event to reestablish control, not
just to say, "I told you so."
It's incremental tyranny for which they aim. The right has
no intention of relinquishing its grip on America, even after a sound defeat in
'08. To them, governing is an entitlement; elections are meaningless. To Rove,
governing and manipulating events were his trophies. To Cheney, his moral
destiny. And to Bush, his dynasty. America was but a possession in their hands
to be used at their pleasure in fulfilling their lifelong vision. We can all
now witness the fulfillment of their vision, their “mission accomplished”; the
nation is the Titanic after the iceberg.
Long before the contested 2000 election, Bush and his
insiders decided to invade Iraq. So, upon seizing office, his administration
went into high gear planning the invasion. This is treason; no other word
better describes the acts of deception that began years before 9/11. Bush
realized he had to lie the nation to war. Cheney knew he was required to fix
the intelligence around the policy to invade. Rove knew he was in charge of prepping
the American people for war and to time each event to fit election cycles and
political pressure points so Bush would have
an easier time in selling the war. Men of integrity they were not.
I ask my conservative friends, "How's it feel to be so
wrong, to be on the dark side of history by putting such a fool in office who
made such a wreck of the nation?"
The question would fade if his effects weren't so pronounced
and long-term. Yet the hateful right is determined to create schism. To lay the
past aside, this element must at last be put in its place and the perpetrators
of treason must be brought to justice. Otherwise, they’re going to continue to
stir strife on their quest for control. 