And truth marches on

Back to 1922 when Hitler’s SA men smashed popular opposition in the streets of Coburg, Germany – a daring act. Then too in 1922, Marxists claimed that for nationalists to march in a German Day Parade, they would be a provocation of the proletariat and the cause of worse things. Hitler defied everyone and ‘hundreds’ marched. After his Marxists were ‘attacked,’ the local population broke into spontaneous cheering in many places,” supporting them. Wow! Also by 1922, Hitler’s SA formed 8 more ‘hundreds’ (supporters) in 3 other German cities ( besides Coburg). The SA became indispensable to create the perfect German community because Hitler said, “all the wisdom on this earth remains without success if force does not enter into its service, guarding it and protecting it.” What was Hitler’s opinion of the masses? “The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.” With this psychological insight, he knew that …”only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.” So when he became Chancellor, Hitler pleased the masses by 1. creating the enormous employment and feel-good projects called the autobahnen and the volksauto. One example of Hitler’s popularity follows: After Hitler went out to greet his admirers, ( from where he was staying during a vacation in the Bavarian Alps), a bystander said he could recall that “they nearly swooned…and one hysterical lady picked up some pebbles on which (Hitler) had stepped and put them in a little vial which she crushed to her breast.” Case closed on Hitler, but does any person or any events come to mind that occupy our political landscape today?