(White supremacy – Wikipedia)
What is the first step in establishing tyranny? Those who would rule must convince enough people that “it’s the right thing to do.” Consider some of the more prominent examples.
- When white people enslaved black people, they used the government to help establish their “right” to own black people. Supposedly, blacks were racially inferior. That is, various academics established the belief in the racial inferiority of blacks as a “scientific belief.” That supposedly made enslaving blacks “the right thing to do.”
- Before Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took over Germany, Hitler documented the ideology of the Nazis in Mein Kampf. The Nazis advocated the belief in an Aryan master race. The Nazis also emphasized racial conflict, especially agains the Jews. That supposedly made The Holocaust “the right thing to do.”
- Karl Marx…
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Citizen Tom 
Going to check this out…Mel recommended it!
Amen, Tom. You’ve hit on some scary truth. Long ago, even left leaning people understood this principle very well. Tyranny and atrocities always come riding in on a velvet glove of, “for your own good.”
Tom,
I believe the crux of the issue is your comment: “Once we give the government the power to persecute people for not “doing the right thing,” government,”
The ‘right thing’ in government seems to change with each new influx of politicians who cater to various fickle ‘popularity polls’ of supposed new ideas to correct former ideas or social theories.
What is needed is to teach wisdom and love in the Bible which has been the best tool and path directions for thousands of years, in my opinion.
Best way is school vouchers. For example check out my latest post how Chicago politicians plan to invest 200 million in short term solutions of buildings instead of ‘weighting’ the best long term proven investment or ‘right thing’ since the beginning of human kind.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Will do!