Anger, hate and fear

How often do you question your leaders? 

Why do you trust them? 

Why do you want to be lead into another quagmire just because they said it was the “right thing to do?” 

Why?  WHY?????

Because they said they were going to “protect you?”

Because you feel vulnerable and unsafe, because you are afraid…WHY?

WHY are you being asked to fall in line and condemn “others?” (Syrians)

WHY are you being told to fear and hate Muslims?

WHY aren’t more American citizens asking these questions????

Adolf Hitler wasn’t the main problem…the biggest problem and probably more serious affront to world peace was his followers. HIS FOLLOWERS Those who believed in him, those who spouted his propaganda, those who followed his lead. Without those followers Hitler would have been powerless.

Goebbels who was head of the Propaganda Ministry believed that the radio could be used as the chief means for spreading anger, hatred and fear. 

Today Goebbels would probably be using radio, television and the internet. He used to say that controlling the media was necessary to “lifting the people out of liberal economic thoughts”  and by far it became the regime’s most effective means used to shape German thought.

Parroting nonsense they heard on the radio, Germans quickly fell into line. They were angry at and hated the Jews, they hated people who didn’t look like them, they were told they were the best at everything including war. They were told that professors and intellectuals were suspect.  They were programed to hate and fear anyone that didn’t spout Nazi propaganda. They were made to salut the flag and to feel proud doing it.

Does any of this sound familiar?

In 1933 unions were dissolved under the pretext of workers rights being protected by the new labor laws.  Within three months of their dissolution Hitler passed another law bringing an end to collective bargaining. Unions were no longer and the business community was pleased.

Followers that uphold a particular ideology can become the main problem in nations all over the world. When “patriotic” catch phrases are used BE SUSPECT. 

When you are told to fear some group of people BE SUSPECT.

All leaders be they Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Mayors or commissioners and those seeking some office that ask their citizens first to be angry then to fear or hate some particular group of people should BE SUSPECT.

People are taught through repetitive use of propaganda to hate and fear. Stirring up anger and channeling it towards hating an entire religious group is dangerous in the extreme.

So please...your first question should be why are you angry and why are you being encouraged to hate and fear. 

See ya next week.