Dangers of the PC culture
If we do not learn our history and adhere to the lessons it’s taught us, the regressive left will allow the worst in our society to take control.
“Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis … believe me, most of them wouldn’t have.”
This is a quote from Brunhilde Pomsel, who was personal secretary for Joseph Goebbels.
Germany in 1932 allowed itself to be subsumed by a right-wing political force that stressed the idea that the only free speech should be that which is deemed politically correct by the state.
America in 2016 is on the path to being consumed by a left-wing cultural force that stresses the idea that the only free speech should be that which is deemed politically correct by the social-media complex.
Unfortunately for those who value liberty, this far-left force has taken grip of our country by the tongue and forced its agenda in a way that has been less direct than the dictatorships of the past but is leading to the same outcome: A totalitarian state in which only certain actions, speech and thought are permitted.
Fortunately, the fate of liberty is not sealed. We have a chance to change the course of our future. But we must first identify the cancer that plagues our society.
Since the end of World War II, it is commonly considered a very juvenile political practice to call your opponent “Hitler.” It’s seen as a cheap tactic that in many ways discredits and devalues the actual horror the Nazis inflicted upon so many.
This time, though, the likeness is easily missed but important to point out.
In Milwaukee this past weekend, businesses, homes, and cars were set ablaze. Seven officers were sent to the hospital while other civilians were wounded by gunshots.
Over the past two years, violent protests like this one have left the lives of many upstanding citizens completely devastated. And to top it all, this violent act, like the many that have preceded it, have been done to demonize the law enforcement community.
How different is this than the gangs of Sturmabteilung thugs who burned down the shops and meeting places of law abiding Jewish citizens in order to publicly demonize that group of people?
Just as in the case of the Nazi gangs, the narrative that the media portrayed then and portrays now is not one of “how do we stop this societal menace,” but instead it’s “what can we do to meet their demands.”
In the 1920s and 1930s, the German public gave subliminal approval to the violence carried out against the Jewish population. In 2016, the left wing of this country tacitly supports the violence that these professional protesters commit.
Their argument is that they have the right to destroy cities because of historical oppression. I utterly and completely reject this argument.
The destruction of property, coupled with a culture that not only permits but promotes violence, is wholly un-American and unacceptable.
To scapegoat a particular group and use that group as the target of unabashed hatred and barbarity is something the left wing supposedly despises. Why, then, do its members allow American police officers to become a target?
The history of this country, like any, is messy at best and brutal at worst. Go far enough back and everyone has experienced injustices.
History, however, gives no one the right to do despicable things in the present.
If we do not learn our history and adhere to the lessons it’s taught us, the regressive left will allow the worst in our society to take control.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will be trapped in a culture of political correctness where it is almost a crime to say something not predesignated as “appropriate.”
This is not the future we have to choose.
We can once again make liberty a tenet of our society, we can once again bring justice back to our streets, we can once again make sure all Americans live with the rights they are entitled to.
Pomsel lived through a totalitarian PC state and warns that the majority won’t oppose it when it happens. Don’t be the majority.