With only two weeks left until Elections Day, we are finally approaching the finish line—and not a moment too soon.
This will be a crucial day, and I fear that many do not grasp the magnitude of its consequences. On November 5, we will decide not just America’s future but the world’s fate. And it might take just one tiny man to throw our planet off balance.
Let us not forget the words of George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
It wasn’t so long ago that we faced a similar crossroads, and the aftermath of WWII was devastating—the loss of 50 to 56 million lives.
“On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler the chancellor of Germany. The Reichstag fire on February 27, erroneously believed to have been set by representatives of the German Communist Party (KPD), allowed Hitler a further opportunity to warn Germans of an impending socialist revolution that would destroy the German Fatherland.
With heavy pressure from Hitler, Hindenburg then issued an emergency decree “for the Protection of People and State” that restricted personal liberties, extended the government’s legal ability to obtain warrants for house searches, confiscate private property, and monitor citizens’ postal and electronic communications, and allowed all KPD Reichstag members and other leading anti-Nazis to be arrested.
In March 1933, the Reichstag approved the implementation of the Enabling Act that granted Hitler dictatorial powers for four years and officially destroyed the Weimar Constitution. A plebiscite in late 1933 confirmed the Nazis’ control and, with Hindenburg’s death in August 1934, Hitler became Germany’s new führer.”
I’m weary of politics, but it’s impossible to ignore the echoes of the candidates’ platforms. And what I hear from the Trump barracks is ominous and alarming.
No rational person wants a “strongman”—whether a Führer, Duce, Caudillo, or dictator—to rule their nation. And yet, the rhetoric across the Potomac suggests that’s exactly what one candidate has in mind.
On November 5, vote. And if you value our precious freedom, vote with a cool head—not with some anger tainted with spite.
Alain