In my youth (many moons ago), someone told me if you put a frog in a kettle of water, turn the heat up slowly to the boiling point, that frog would just sit there grinning while he slowly boiled to death. I thought, “that’s ridiculous – who wouldn’t get out when it got too hot!” So I pitched that story in my “totally absurd” pile.
Fast forward to the good old college days, my history professor, a known expert on World History, opened my eyes to the parallels of that frog in the kettle to Germany during the Great Wars.
Germany’s problems began well before Adolf Hitler gained power. Paul von Hindenburg, elected president of Germany in 1925, was endowed by the Weimar Constitution with various emergency powers to defend German democracy should it be in dire peril.
Instead of defending it, though, Hindenburg and his party installed Hitler as chancellor. Soon thereafter, Germany saw intensified rearmament, the outlawing of the Communist Party, the suspension first of freedom of speech, the press, burning of books deemed “unfit” and assembly of parliamentary government, a purge of the civil service, and the abolition of independent labor unions.
The Nazis advanced far beyond the goals set by the Weimar Constitution who were powerless to hinder them in any significant way, practically overnight. The Nazis controlled information, the press, assembly, jobs, and the holocaust of millions by targeting “undesirable” populations.
Today parallels between Germany and America can’t be overlooked. Over decades, our constitutional rights have been threatened – life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Rights to govern ourselves (free speech, religion, healthcare, defense, property, security, finances, banking, raising and educating our children) have been eroded at an ever increasing pace. Washington bureaucrats stopped taking care of We the People long ago. Sadly, they take care of their wellbeing while forcing middle America to foot the bill.
Day after day the American people are faced with new challenges – bills passed that aren’t read, voting process questioned, indoctrination of our children’s schools by disputed social theories. We are fed misinformation and stripped of our history. Just this week it’s reported the massive Build Back Better bill has designated funds to fight Christian daycares threatening to shut them down because of “racism.”
Early this year, the Biden Administration signed an executive order that has caused concern among landowners from sea to shining sea - especially those on whom we rely for the food we eat. Entitled “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad” (or ’30 by 30’), its primary goal is to conserve “at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.” This new order would increase protected lands by 18 percent (440 million acres, which is twice the size of Texas) in nine years.
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said in February, “30 percent isn’t the end; it is just the beginning.” In other words, once the Feds have swallowed 30 percent of American lands by renaming, claiming eminent domain, and “protecting endangered species,” they will be after our hunting lands, timber rights, as well as mineral rights.
The handwriting is on the wall, folks. The water is hot and soon will be boiling. If there’s ever a time to stand up for the America we know and love, the time is NOW to push for an Article V Convention of States to stop Congress’ overreach.
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