The Leftwaffe and the Moral Blitzkrieg

First of all I apologize to my German readers for mentioning the war.

I’m sure we all want to forget that part of history, in some sense, but the pressures and propaganda applied so successfully by the Nazis are as pertinent today as they ever have been. It’s wise not to forget the techniques that were employed even if we have to mention the war.

People don’t just wake up one morning and suddenly say to themselves “Hey, you know what would be a really good idea? What if we gassed 6 million people? Wouldn’t that be so cool?”

No, it takes a concerted and lengthy program of psychological manipulation that preys on people’s fears and stokes up prejudice to get to the point where people go along with it, or at least turn a blind eye.

Most people have this idealistic and unrealistic notion in their heads that runs along the lines of “we could never be like the Germans during the Nazi period, or in favour of slavery like our ancestors”.

I wouldn’t bet on it. We’re all a product of our times and societies.

If anything, the whole sad and pathetic covid debacle has underlined just how easy it is for a society to slip into barbarism.

And this is one of the milder examples of appallingly inhumane things that were written. No doubt the author of this tweet felt he was morally justified in promoting this inhumanity. I’m certain he didn’t feel like a “bad person” for making this statement, or thinking like this. For all I know, he probably still doesn’t.

One of the great mantras employed during the pantodemic was “follow the science”. As we all know, in reality we did anything but that. What we actually did was “follow the morals”. A kind of bastardized version of science was trotted out in order to get us to follow a bastardized set of morals.

Protect Granny. We’re all in this together. Look him in the eyes. No one is safe until we’re all safe. Wear a mask and protect others . . .

The Science™ was used as a weapon to enforce a particular set of moral imperatives. You were one of the “good” guys if you did everything you were told - and most definitely one of the “bad” guys if you did not, or merely questioned things.

A lot of people get all hot and bothered when any similarity between the events leading up to the Holocaust and the covid measures is drawn. It’s really offensive, they say. How can you compare the covid measures with the horror of the Holocaust? Indeed, one cannot - but that’s not the comparison being made. The comparison is that exactly the same kinds of coercive propaganda techniques were employed. We’re not comparing outcomes when mentioning the Holocaust - we’re comparing techniques of manipulation.

And let’s face it, some people were not all that far away from advocating that the unvaxxed be rounded up and shipped off to camps to protect the ‘good’ and the Goo’ed. Is it really too much of a stretch to draw a parallel with the demonization of the Jews and other groups in Nazi Germany? I don’t think so.

I don’t think any of the labels we apply to current trends are adequate. The words ‘woke’ or ‘left’ are just convenient shorthand descriptors of a phenomenon we know all too well. It’s best summed up by one of the most chilling pictures of the last couple of years.

These people are trying to get the poor lady sitting outside trying to enjoy some crumb of normal life during the pantodemic to make the black power symbol. They’re trying to force compliance to a particular ideology, a particular morality, and they want her to demonstrate that compliance publicly.

If the young man looming over her wasn’t making a fist it would look an awful lot like a Nazi salute wouldn’t it?

Those who won’t ‘bend the knee’ (quite literally) are described as “Nazis” or “fascists” and yet who is actually behaving more like a Nazi or a fascist?

This moral enforcement, this enforcement of public compliance, can be seen everywhere these days. Twenty years ago you wouldn’t have been subjected to any kind of online hate campaign, or the threat of cancellation, if you’d made the wholly unremarkable (and correct) statement that only women can give birth.

All of a sudden, it seems, today you’re considered to be some sort of pond life, reprehensible scum, if you make this kind of statement. This othering, this demonization, is what makes the hate possible.

The science certainly hasn’t changed. We weren’t actually getting it wrong for the last several thousand years and now, as a result of some stupendous new discovery over the last couple of decades, we know better.

But people are being bullied into the position that men can give birth - and it’s something they know to be incorrect. Recall that even a Supreme Court Judge cannot tell you what a woman is - or rather, she declined to express what she knows, and what everyone else knows, out of fear.

Men cannot give birth. People who are women and who feel themselves to be men can certainly give birth. They are not men except in their heads - they are dream men. And it’s ok to want to live your dreams, fair play to you, but don’t expect me to deny reality, however deep your desire or strong your feeling to be something you clearly are not. I’ll meet you half way and treat you as if you were a man, I’ll be perfectly civil and warm towards you, and wish you no ill will - but I will never accept that you ARE a man. I’m sorry - that’s just the way it is.

It’s this imposition of a certain morality, this attempt to force a particular viewpoint that, if anything, is characteristic of what we might term the ‘woke’ - or what I’d like to call the Leftwaffe. It’s certainly closer to actual Nazism than anything they accuse their opponents of.

There are thousands and thousands of examples to choose from of the current insanity gripping our societies. These insane perspectives are being forced upon us - if you don’t essentially agree with the sentiments you will be seen as morally deficient. It’s a deeply coercive and manipulative program. Here’s just a very small random sampling of some of the stuff I’ve collected in my online travels. None of it makes any sense whatsoever - yet this drivel has been given a kind of moral authority by the moral Blitzkrieg of the Leftwaffe.

There’s so much more out there - and it’s not at all difficult to find. There have always been loons and eccentrics amongst us, but the difference is that, today, we give them far more credence than they deserve.

It’s a topsy-turvy world - I think that’s the message that this senator is trying to convey with her recent promotional video trying to get your vote.

It’s a metaphor for something. I think this may be a first. The first time we have seen a US senator doing a headstand? Actually I don’t know whether this is the senator herself in this video. I would like to think not - but who knows these days?

---