America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933

Just as the rise of the Third Reich was not, in reality, political, so, too, the rise of fascism, rebellion, and the breakdown of every foundation in our society, changes taking place as never before in world history happening daily worldwide — neither is any of this truly political.

The Third Reich was demonic. Taken captive by their interest in the occult, their inward burning desires were formed and cemented in the wickedness, the evil of their spirits, which were being led by demonic, dark evil forces. Not political as so many chalk things up to and stop there.

Everything taking place in America, which resembles Germany in 1933 is not due to liberal politics versus conservative politics. Not even close.

It is the spiritual warfare of God and His people versus Satan and his people.

That’s it. Really. You can refute this, deny this, mock this, debate this but nothing is formed and expanded, pushed and shoved on the people, accepted and approved by the people out of a political root, a political ideological foundation. No, the root of everything that germinates, sprouts, and grows is based on the spiritual warfare of God and His righteousness, His Word, His people vs. Satan and his lies, his wickedness, and his people he has enslaved and deluded.

Man and woman’s rebellion. Man and woman’s turning from God. Man and woman’s arrogant disobedience and refusal to understand, love, and follow their Creator and Saviour, to be repelled by God’s Word while readily adopting, accepting, and approving every lie given them by the father of lies — Satan.

It’s all in the Bible.

If interested in truth, reality, actual history, coming to know past, present, and the history that is yet to come, but is swiftly approaching! Read, study, meditate — think deeply about what is read and ponder to gain understanding, asking the Holy Spirit to provide understanding beyond human ability.

Yes, that is quite possible. And necessary if a truly born again disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And if folks think America and much of the Western world, the whole world are enduring hardships, trials, and troubles now — just wait. It will get worse. It will get much, much worse.

But I am of the belief that true believers, born again individuals who are living disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ will not endure or face the greatest of sufferings, trials, and tribulation to come such as the world has never seen and never will see again.

“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 21:36

Luke 21

Ken Pullen, Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

America Isn’t Nazi Germany, but It Looks a Little Like 1933

March 18, 2024

By Gerard Baker

Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal

Last year we learned that American men supposedly spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the Roman empire. Since the source of this information was a series of viral TikTok videos, we have to take it with a pinch of salt. Perhaps it will emerge that it was some cunning plan by the Chinese Communist Party to remind the American male that the U.S. is merely the latest in a long line of empires set for decline and fall, a social-media memento mori for America’s global leadership.

For my part—for more obvious contemporary reasons—I have been thinking a lot lately about the Third Reich.

Like all English schoolboys I was taught about interwar Germany from an early age. Supplementing our history books on the Nazi horrors was an endless diet of films and TV shows that variously documented and caricatured Adolf Hitler and his regime. The effect was always to underscore the historical singularity of the Nazis—and of course their Germanness. It all helped develop the comforting thought that there was something so uniquely wicked about their life and times that “never again” was less of an exhortation than a confident forecast.

But with time comes a more subtle appreciation of the enduring universalities of political culture. The interwar Germans and their leaders weren’t another species, or laboratory-created monsters sent to tyrannize humanity. They were ordinary men and women. It is their very ordinariness, the commonalities they shared—and still share—with the rest of us that should terrify us. It is for the banality of their evil, in Hannah Arendt’s famous description, that many of these otherwise normal people must be understood.

With that in mind, and looking for clues about the direction of our darkening world, I have been catching up on the period with the help of some famous histories—among them Richard Evans’s brilliant trilogy and American journalist William Shirer’s gripping eyewitness account, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.”

It isn’t the obvious historical geopolitical parallels with the present that interest me, though there are plenty: a major land war in Europe as an expansionist dictator seeks to annex a neighbor, the rise of nationalist political movements across the world, the chilling return of antisemitic hate, the challenge to Western hegemony from the emergence of a rival Pacific power. My interest is primarily in the human factor. In what conditions do civilized people become eager progenitors of a regime that ends up murdering tens of millions of people?

To be clear, I don’t think, as hyperventilating polemicists argue all the time, that America is walking into a replay of 1933 under You Know Who. The conditions of Germany then were so far removed from what obtains in the U.S. today that constantly invoking Hitler blinds us to the real lessons of the time. Weimar Germany was a fledgling democracy traumatized by catastrophic defeat in war, hyperinflation and depression. An electoral system almost designed to generate paralyzing political instability invited both acts of political violence and executive authoritarianism. Above all, Weimar and its institutions were still teenagers when they succumbed so meekly to Hitler’s putsch. The American republic is 247 years old and counting.

But there are still lessons for our current political culture. We can see in contemporary extremists of both left and right echoes of the tactics the Nazis deployed—especially the way in which they mobilize language.

Take how Shirer explains the success of national socialism, tracing its roots in Hitler’s early years and writings. Amid the vomit of hatred and paranoia that characterizes most of his autobiographical Mein Kampf, consider how this passage resonates today: “All great movements are popular movements, volcanic eruptions of human passions and sentiments, stirred either by the cruel Goddess of Distress or by the firebrand of the word hurled among the masses; they are not lemonade-like outpourings of literary esthetics and drawing room heroes.”

This is an essential political truth—arguments, ideas and theories are no match for the ability to channel the raw power of popular sentiment, which can be raucous and savage. The history of the Republican Party in the past 10 years has been exactly this: the triumph of “the firebrand of the word” over the “lemonade-like outpourings of drawing room heroes.”

But there are also warnings about the left from those interwar years. In “The Third Reich in Power,” the second book in Evans’s trilogy, he examines how the National Socialist government went about literally implementing the totalitarian idea that sought to harness every aspect of life to the regnant ideology. So in science, we had “Aryan physics” and “Nazi mathematics.” The latter emphasized geometry over algebra because it was thought to be closer to the supposed model of perfection of their race.

This mad—but dangerous—derogation of scientific truth to an ideology of human racial identity sounds disturbingly close to what our dominant “progressive” ideologues are doing on campuses and in public spaces when they tell us that math is racist and seek to silence dissenting ideas.

We aren’t Nazi Germany. But history is full of examples of how ordinary people can be driven by exigent circumstances and manipulative leaders into some very dark places.

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