Omar Akkad has observed, “One day, everyone will have always been against this.”
Yes indeed.
Is this that day?
Who can say?
But yes, the calculus is slowly shifting.
And yet…..
And yet, there are always those who are anxious to be part of the system. They will tell you it’s better to be “inside the system,” working to temper the worst excesses, rather than outside criticizing the obvious cruelty.
It’s a convenient rationalization, isn’t it? You get to position yourself as a whistleblower, even as you preen under the spotlight and do nothing to threaten your income stream.
How convenient.
Yes, I’m looking straight at you Miles Taylor.
In the movie “Inglorious Basterds,” Aldo Raines knew the type.
After the war, all the Nazis would take off their uniforms and pass for citizens. Once the Allies won, every Vichy frenchman and woman would tell you they had always been part of The Resistance.
Aldo’s solution was to pull out a bowie knife and carve a swastika into the forehead of every Nazi he and his men let live.
Will they let us do that today?
Probably not.
That said, remember where people stood, and not just at the end of the war, but at the beginning and middle of the war too.
Is this about politics or dogs?
Yes. Yes it is.
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