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A Soliloquy for Pastor Niemuller…

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  January 4th, 2013 at 09:08 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

First they came for the uninsured, and I did not speak out–

For I was insured…

Then they came for the Corporations, and I did not speak out–

For I was not a Corporation…

Then they came for the Rich, and I did not speak out–

For I was not Rich…

And, then they came for me,

and then there was no one left to speak for me…

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  • http://www.political-woman.com politicalwoman

    To add to your prescient prose, from Edmund Burke, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” After watching Congress this week, and reading/listening to various media regarding current events, I never thought it would ever come to this and I would be taking this step, but this afternoon I’m going to Cabela’s.

    • conservativecurmudgeon

      The quote you have given is oftentimes mis-attributed to Georges Santaya– which is interesting, given his extreme pragmatism, and Burke’s rather mild embrace of the perfectibility (of at least some small parts) of the human condition.

      I know, with some degree of certainty, that we are in for a couple of years of “you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet”. And, as with Niemuller’s early 1930′s Germany, the transformation will be un-graspable in it’s swiftness, and of our societal and cultural inability to recognize it as it happens.

      The Republican party, at least on the Federal Stage, resembles nothing so much as the German Church at the time: They argued and bickered among themselves about the picayune and gnat-crap aspects of daily assaults on religious liberties, without seeing the broader cultural sweep. By the time they were onto the game, most of the players had been co-opted, killed, or sent to the concentration camps.

      All in the name of “democracy” and “national harmony”.