Vote as if your life depended on it. It just might.

 If gentle readers have noticed allusions to Fascist systems such as the Nazi Party govenment and the Italian Fascist government, it is because the Democrats are using tactics well known from the 1920s and 1930s.  But to make this more explicit, Vince Coyner has an article at the American Thinker telling us that Democrats Dangerously Copy The Tactics Of Famous Fascists. Coyner first goes over the well worn history of the Nazi party begining in the 1920s. He illustrates that by taking incremental baby steps, the Nazis eventually gained control of the German govermnent. Once in power, they swiftly moved to silence, jail, or execute opponents. Eventually, they went after the Jews with what they termed the "final solution."

We can be almost sure that, if we asked any German in 1932 whether it would be okay to enslave and murder Jews, he would most certainly have said no. But within two years, Jews would officially be defined as an inferior race and have their political and economic freedoms curtailed. Within a decade, millions would be murdered.

As Martin Niemöller suggests in his 1946 poem “First they came,” the Nazis were able to accomplish their goals by taking baby steps of oppression with little discernible pushback from a willfully gullible public.

So it is that we find ourselves in America in 2022 with fascism ascendant. And unlike what the media would want you to believe, it’s not Donald Trump who’s leading the parade. For just over two years, we’ve seen the evil of fascism take hold as it’s never held sway before..

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The Biden administration’s threatening, intimidating, and jailing of its opposition set the backdrop for Joe Biden’s extraordinary speech on September 1, when he stated, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.” This was not a campaign speech; this was the President officially addressing American citizens…and calling 70 million of them terrorists.

You can laugh all you want, and it does seem that Uncle Joe would never do anything like the Nazis did, that this was just a campaign speech to rile up the base. Indeed, that is what most people are taking it as being. If it is what most people think, it is deeply embarrassing.

 But what if it is not?

These are not just idle words: It’s Joe Biden, the head of the American government, with all the resources at its disposal, telling 70+ million Americans they are a threat to the nation. And in case anyone missed the point, after having just passed a law to hire 87,000 armed IRS agents, the administration hired Nikole Flax, who worked with Lois Lerner at the IRS when it was targeting conservatives during the Obama administration, to run the new division. Joe Biden and the Democrats have just created the largest armed police force in the nation and set as its leader someone associated with the targeting of their political opponents.

Joe Biden’s words are not just words…they’re threats. The leader of the government paints his political opponents as extremists and then exhorts his supporters to “confront” them. “We’re all called by duty and conscience to confront extremists who put their own pursuit of power above all else.”

Campaign speeches to rile up the base ahead of the November election or threat to round up MAGA supporters and dispose of them? I have no crystal balls, and I am not a prophet. Still, it pays to take such actions as you feel you need to protect yourself and your family. The one bit of advice I can give is to vote as if your life depends on it. It just might.