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Iott: “I dressed up like a Nazi so we never forget” that

Nazi Germany had no problem in recruiting the multitudes of volunteers willing to lay down their lives to ensure a “New and Free Europe”, free of the threat of Communism. National Socialism was seen by many in Holland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and other eastern European and Balkan countries as the protector of personal freedom and their very way of life, despite the true underlying totalitarian (and quite twisted, in most cases) nature of the movement. Regardless, thousands upon thousands of valiant men died defending their respective countries in the name of a better tomorrow. We salute these idealists; no matter how unsavory the Nazi government was, the front-line soldiers of the Waffen-SS (in particular the foreign volunteers) gave their lives for their loved ones and a basic desire to be free.

Moral to political tribalists: Next time, even when your guy makes all the pleasing sounds about abortion, taxes, and war, don’t just close ranks and uncritically defend him from anybody who might want to vet or critique him. Such people are the white blood cells of the body politic. Kill them off as heretics and traitors and you suddenly find bizarre opportunistic infections attacking against which you have no defense. Learn a lesson from the Obama adorers, whose utterly uncritical adoration of the Son of Man has left them wholly unprepared for the fact that he doesn’t know what he’s doing and is quite willing to betray his base.

What I’m saying here is that there is a reason the Church has lasted so long while political associations dedicated to grabbing the One Ring keep dying. Jesus wasn’t kidding when he said that to find your life you have to lose it. When parties get together, they fall into the trap of self-congratulation and scheming about how to defeat the other guy. When we meet for Mass, we are instructed to say not, “We’re Number One! Woo Hoo!” but the penitential rite. When you focus on repenting your sins instead of trying to win, you paradoxically find yourself winning because you seek your life from God and not from cunning. Both parties are getting stupider and stupider because they are focused on winning and holding on to power and not on living in truth or justice. This transparent falsehood from Iott is but one tiny sample. Far bigger and of much greater import is Obama’s flat out lie about the “end of combat” and his similar betrayals in seizing the power to murder citizens without evidence, arrest, or trial. Likewise, his coverups of war crimes make it abundantly clear he’s got no interest in truth (if his endorsement of sticking scissors in a baby’s brain were not enough).

This is why I will continue to vote for doomed quixotic third party candidates who do not ask me to support grave moral evil in *any* form. I’m done voting for the 30% Less Evil Than the Other Leading Brand candidate.