Nazi is its own horrible category
On Sunday, ICE conducted enforcement actions in several US cities. Officers were upholding Constitutional law.
But more than a few figures in political, news, and entertainment worlds, as well as in social media, compared President Trump and American law enforcement officers to Third Reich-Era Nazis.
"Hitler," "fuhrer," "concentration camp," and "Waffen SS" were only a few terms freely misused.
America is a democratic republic in which men are free to select governance and make laws, exercising will from the grassroots, up.
On the other hand, Nazi Germany was an oppressive, national-socialist state imposed downward on a populace. There can be no sound equating of American office-holders and police who advocate for democratically enacted laws, with murderous Nazi troops responsible for the systematic killings of tens of millions.
To attempt comparison is to deny the uniqueness and proportion of the Nazi horror.
The current mania to throw around Nazi-based slurs may owe, partly, to time's passage. The more victims and decades that pass, the easier it becomes to treat the phenomenon casually. To exploit it for political purposes of the moment, unhindered by conscience.
It may be that among those now misapplying related terminology are callow minds who don't grasp the enormity and singularity of the Nazi monster. And that it is not to be invoked ill-advisedly.
Too, there has always been an ill-reasoned attitude that any order or national pride is necessarily of the same cloth as fascism. That patriotism is inherently unhealthy.
Unfortunately, that garbled thinking is enjoying some present popularity.
Democrat congressional figures and presidential nomination hopefuls seem bent on outdoing one another in a sort of cuckoo competition. Nearly each day brings fresh madness. A cartoonish declaration. A publicity-calculated posture.
More seasoned actors doubtless understand their party is hurtling toward electoral demolition. And they may secretly wish for a saner environment.
But the pull of juvenile extremism untempered by wisdom makes its demands. Resistance is futile.
And the Rule of Law, once an American ideal understood to benefit citizens, is now derided by the left as fascistic.
On Sunday, ICE conducted enforcement actions in several US cities. Officers were upholding Constitutional law.
But more than a few figures in political, news, and entertainment worlds, as well as in social media, compared President Trump and American law enforcement officers to Third Reich-Era Nazis.
"Hitler," "fuhrer," "concentration camp," and "Waffen SS" were only a few terms freely misused.
America is a democratic republic in which men are free to select governance and make laws, exercising will from the grassroots, up.
On the other hand, Nazi Germany was an oppressive, national-socialist state imposed downward on a populace. There can be no sound equating of American office-holders and police who advocate for democratically enacted laws, with murderous Nazi troops responsible for the systematic killings of tens of millions.
To attempt comparison is to deny the uniqueness and proportion of the Nazi horror.
The current mania to throw around Nazi-based slurs may owe, partly, to time's passage. The more victims and decades that pass, the easier it becomes to treat the phenomenon casually. To exploit it for political purposes of the moment, unhindered by conscience.
It may be that among those now misapplying related terminology are callow minds who don't grasp the enormity and singularity of the Nazi monster. And that it is not to be invoked ill-advisedly.
Too, there has always been an ill-reasoned attitude that any order or national pride is necessarily of the same cloth as fascism. That patriotism is inherently unhealthy.
Unfortunately, that garbled thinking is enjoying some present popularity.
Democrat congressional figures and presidential nomination hopefuls seem bent on outdoing one another in a sort of cuckoo competition. Nearly each day brings fresh madness. A cartoonish declaration. A publicity-calculated posture.
More seasoned actors doubtless understand their party is hurtling toward electoral demolition. And they may secretly wish for a saner environment.
But the pull of juvenile extremism untempered by wisdom makes its demands. Resistance is futile.
And the Rule of Law, once an American ideal understood to benefit citizens, is now derided by the left as fascistic.
posted by DC Larson at
July 14, 2019
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