Yes America, adults are back in the room! It feels like we should have Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” commercial playing on continuous loop this morning. We might actually have government again. We certainly haven’t had any government the past four years.
The Beer Hall Putsch
The Nazi inspired failed coup attempt has been put down. If you think that too harsh a term you need to actually read up on history. This coup attempt came directly from the Nazi playbook. In particular, The Beer Hall Putsch.
And so Hitler and the Nazis hatched a plot in which they would kidnap the leaders of the Bavarian government and force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader. Then, according to their plan, with the aid of famous World War I General, Erich Ludendorff, they would win over the German Army, proclaim a nationwide revolt and bring down the German democratic government in Berlin.
I can’t remember the name of it, but the very first major riot/street fight his thugs were in later had paintings of Hitler leading the troops put out as propaganda. Only problem was, he wasn’t event there. Just like Trump said “I’ll go there with you” (or something close to that) and then went and hid, so did Hitler. It was in our high school history books, I just can’t remember the name of it now. Feel free to look it up.
It was used to teach us about the power of propaganda and false narrative. More importantly how to spot and deal with it. More people today need to be taught this. Read Part 5 of this post series to understand more about how propaganda is deployed.
We can actually breathe free again
Doesn’t it feel like we are finally going to have regulation of social media? That the ability to just spin blatant lies and tout them as fact will finally be crushed? I sure hope so.
It really does feel like morning in America again. I lived through years before and during Reagan. He wasn’t a perfect man, but every presidency since him has felt like it was forcing America further down the toilet, closer to the septic system. The last four years definitely had us in the septic system.
Adults are back in the room! Measured orderly things following an actual thought process will now begin to happen. I know I won’t agree with all of them, but there will at least be some form of logic behind them.
Integrity has again been restored to the top office. Like a breath of fresh air!