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This society moves slowly. There will be many "wake-up calls" and horrible reminders of our New World War. All will be ignored by the masses who want only to go to productive work, make their homes comfortable and attractive, nurture and educate their children, and experience the joy of a new car every few years.
These people, the backbone of America, Britain, and other civilized countries, are slow to recognize danger, and, even when they have done so, look mostly to their elected and appointed leaders to work through the problems. If they don't like the current crop, they "vote the rascals out" and elect some new rascals.
America has gone soft. So has England. Canada, too. Europe is mostly a lost cause, although the Eastern European countries recently liberated from the workers paradise of communism still remember tyranny and the personal constraints that were so debilitating that the air in those countries seemed thicker than everywhere else. Those people remember.
Nazi Germany was a long time in the making. Some Jews fled. Many waited too long, even though the threat was evident. Many, many more walked to their deaths under their own power, HOPING that something would happen to spare them, something beyond their own control. Masons, evangelical Christians, and the mentally retarded never saw it coming. They died too.
When Hitler came to power, it was legal for citizens to own firearms. Guns were freely available. But not for long. Hitler required registration. And then, only a few weeks before Krystalnacht, Germany started confiscation. This was a "law and order" issue. You know, public safety. Hitler was a big advocate of law and order. Everything was done legally. When the German insurance companies were faced with huge liabilities on the arson losses and the insured plateglass destroyed on Krystalnacht, the government declared the events a civil insurrection which was excluded in the insurance policies.
The Rule of Law failed in Nazi Germany, and the LAWYERS AND JUDGES HELPED IT FAIL. It can happen here. I hate to say that, because I am a lawyer. But I have to point out that there was nothing unusual about the LEGAL MECHANICS of that tyranny. It was gradual, incremental, and "legal." But it lacked a resolute moral compass that valued human life and individual freedom.
I see the same thing happening today, here. And it is not the political "right" that is pushing the agenda. The tyranny is coming, and will come, from the "left" just as it did in Germany, with the National Socialists. Everyone here is equal, but some people are more equal than others. The stage is being set, right now, for the enshrinement of sharia law. Free speech has been curtailed so much, through political correctness, that we even police ourselves. For example, there are half a dozen racial slurs that would get this post immediately deleted from this site.
Everybody's "feelings" are too important. No standard is secure from deviation based on claims of bad parenting, childhood poverty, discrimination, racial entitlements, sexual perversion, or some other social favoritism.
No, most Americans will not take this war seriously until their relatives are maimed in a bombing, and their own lives are impacted on a day to day basis. Right now only airline passengers are bothered. Illegal aliens aren't even inconvenienced unless they arrive by plane.
World War II is instructive on the home-front. Everyone was reminded daily that we were at war. There was strict rationing of sugar, whiskey, chocolate, automobile tires, rubber goods, shoes and leather goods, nylon and silk hose, meat, and butter. There were campaigns to save and donate stainless steel, copper, aluminum, cooking fats (for explosives manufacturing), and rubber. Coinage was changed to eliminate scarce metals (pennies in 1943, nickels throughout the war). Everything was in short supply. Today, everything is in great abundance. Our biggest national problem (aside from the fact that a billion people want to kill us) is obesity. Too much food and not enough hard work.