Democracy?
I recently
read the Hitler playbook on how he took over Germany, all done by so-called
democratic means, leaving him in office as a dictator. Watching the end of the US Empire, I do not
see any difference in the playbook being used there. When you read it all as a
bit of history, it sounds just the same.
As Churchill said, “One thing that we learn from History, is that we
don’t learn from History.”
What Churchill
said in 1948 was, “Those who fail to learn from
history are doomed to repeat it.” It appears that this is what is being
done in the USA, and if we let Farage have his say, he will likely follow the
same playbook.
Of course, the big cry is, “But these
people were voted in.’ It’s interesting to note that Hitler was voted in; he had
great support from the “Christian” vote.
And is it not true that Putin was elected? And is it not also correct
that the Donbas voted to become Russian?
Some people believe that a dictatorship
may be preferable to a democracy. Interesting to note C.S. Lewis’s comment on
that position, when he said, “Democracy is the worst form of government,
except for all the others. We would be wise to be thankful for the praiseworthy
aspects of democracy while working to avoid the others.”
Sure, refugees sometimes do bad things,
and so do British-born people; but is that a reason to “tar them all with the
same brush”?
Right now, in the UK, we are seeing people
with Balaclavas over their heads, late at night, climbing ladders, scaling lamp
posts, and erecting English flags, claiming that what they are doing is patriotic.
Do we really believe that that is what it is all about? Patriotism? I really do
not think the British public are that gullible.
It is about racism, it’s about protecting “the real English”, whatever
that is.
A friend of mine, a ‘real Englishman,’
conducted one of those family history searches. To his great surprise, he
discovered that his family line had Albanian ancestry. (Great Britain was the title designated to
Britain as opposed to other nearby islands.) Who are the English, Angles,
Saxons, Celts, Vikings, and Norman French?
We even spoke French for a long time.
I like the
comment by Greg Valerio, who looked at a line of the English St George's flags
recently put up: “I am enjoying the irony that St George is not English, he
never visited England, and in fact was Syrian. I think it's great that England
is so multicultural that we have a Syrian as our Patron Saint. May the flag of
St George always be a symbol of our multi-cultural and inclusive diversity.”
Saint
George originated in the late 3rd century in Cappadocia, an area now in Turkey,
as a soldier in the Roman army who refused to recant his Christian faith,
leading to his martyrdom around 303 AD. He is a venerated Christian martyr.
I am
writing this because, yes, I am very concerned; I do not want to see the UK
follow the same path as other places in our world. We need to be watchful. We
need to be savvier. We need to not
listen to those who shout the loudest. We
need to think.
And,
no! I am not part of the Z Generation, nor a baby boomer. If you want to check
those phrases, I am one of those who they call from “the silent generation”.
However, on these dangerous issues, I do not want to stay silent. Please do
some research. Don’t listen to one source. Don’t just read the ‘popular press’.
Check, and then check again.
Adrian Hawkes
adrianhawkes.blogspot.co.uk
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