As one of the oddballs that tries to keep governments separate from citizens when discussing past atrocities, I’ve never been able to place blame for Hitler’s orders on anyone but him. Yes, the German people are responsible for turning a blind eye to what Hitler was doing to Jewish, Catholic and dissident citizens. No, I can’t hold the German people responsible for the crimes they could not know until after the war was over.
What I have never quite grasped in all the blamestorming is what, exactly, the rest of the world would’ve had the German people do? Or what could the German people have done? The questions get even harrier in the present in regards to the US. Voting in a President isn’t a magic bullet. Armed insurrection? No. Have you seen what our military can do? Not paying our taxes would be about as useful as the House Republicans shutting down the government for nearly 2 weeks. The workers and the poorest Usians suffer, no one in the power structure. So what, planet Earth, would you like us to do? My own representatives have voted against this nonsense from day one or weren’t in office yet. I voted against GW three times. I voted for O the first time because he was supposed to stop the bullshit. Had to vote for him a second time, because the Republican candidate was just a bad idea and I didn’t want to be responsible for voting in WWIII.
Can we admit that the US is the most powerful banana republic to ever exist? I think the time has come to acknowledge the truth.
