How the Nazis Did It

“No one is safe until everyone is safe”

My father’s father was living in Sudetenland, the German-settled area of Czechoslovakia, when the Nazis “annexed” it in 1938. He was a Jew and his wife was not, so his family was offered two options: divorce, or have the whole family suffer persecution. This was one of the millions of Sophie’s Choices offered to the Nazis’ victims. In what must have been horrific anguish, the family chose divorce. According to my sources, my grandfather was shot dead in April, 1942 escaping either from a train on its way to a death camp or from the death camp itself.

Until recently this was an abstract thing to me. My grandfather and his family’s nightmare were like a story from a history book: one reads it and grasps it in some small, distant way. He is merely a black-and-white photo to me. I have a rubber stamp with his signature on the rubber; he was apparently a manager who signed many documents at wherever he worked. The picture and the rubber stamp are all that’s left of him, other than his descendants.

When reading or hearing about history, it is always from a distance. I can read an article about some battle somewhere and vaguely imagine what it might have been like, but I cannot really immerse myself in the horror of being stuck in a trench with bullets flying around me, waiting for a mortar shell to annihilate or mutilate me, with my fate in the hands of nothing but pure luck. Now though, late in life, I’ve gotten a glimpse of the machinery behind the madness of crowds and the debauchery of war. This is because some interesting videos recently came to my attention.

The first one is by Jordan Peterson. Starting at 6:08 here, Peterson explains what life under Soviet occupation in East Germany was like:

You Must Stand Up Against Woke Ideologies

Dictators, it turns out, do not rule strictly from above; they need help from the people. Via a series of indoctrinations, a dictator converts his people into liars who will tell whatever lies he demands. Once he’s gotten them accustomed to lying constantly, they are complicit. The people become his assistants.

Hitler wrote about this in Mein Kampf:

In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

And here I’ve paraphrased Theodore Darymple’s piece on the same subject:

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. The purpose of communist propaganda is neither to inform nor to persuade, but to HUMILIATE; and therefore, the less it corresponds to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent while being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose their sense of integrity. To assent to obvious lies is to become evil oneself; one's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. Political correctness has the same effect.

So, you see, in order to subdue a population, in order to capitalize on the cowardice that lurks in every person, evil leaders must make lying the norm. This requires years of training. People must become accustomed to the idea that lying, especially lying in a big way, is perfectly normal, and that everyone must do it, and that when one lie is finally exhausted we just move on to the next one. I could never have fully imagined this until recently.

Starting in 2020, the biggest and most personally consequential lie of my lifetime washed over us. The lie was: “No one is safe until everyone is safe.” Even on the face of it, this statement is so preposterous that a child could dismantle it. So: you get a vaccine that supposedly immunizes you against a disease, but the vaccine doesn’t start working until absolutely everyone else has received it. Really? If the vaccine you’ve received actually works, such that you don’t need to worry about contracting the disease, then how does someone else’s lack of immunization endanger you?

It is fascinating how many TV luminaries screamed “no one is safe” while also saying that the virus does not infect vaccinated people. Here’s pathological liar Rachel Maddow, for example:

Rachel Maddow: "The Virus stops with every vaccinated person"

Let’s follow the logic here:

·         a “vaccinated” person does not get infected and therefore does not get sick;

·         but is not safe until everyone else is safe?

The clear intent of the “no one is safe” propaganda was to evoke anger among people who had received the injections against people who had not. Who had received the injections? Well for one thing, the media made a big point about how “vaccine” recipients were more educated than those who had refrained:

·         Low Education Levels Strongly Tied to Being Unvaccinated, Major Contributor to Ongoing Hesitancy

·         Here Are The Biggest Groups That Are Still Refusing The Covid-19 Vaccine, Poll Finds

·         KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: Profile Of The Unvaccinated

So the effect of a college education is … to make people susceptible to even the most preposterous logical inconsistencies? Or perhaps to make them more likely to subscribe to whatever they’re told? Anyway, the message was clear, since we all know that educated people necessarily make better decisions. Right?

There was a semi-plausible argument in favor of getting everyone “vaccinated,” which was that the hesitant folks were filling up hospital ICUs, thereby making those facilities unavailable to virtuous vaccinated folks suffering from other problems. It made sense, except that it was predicated on the idea that the “vaccines” were actually working. But the people suffering from COVID in ICUs were no more “unvaccinated” than “vaccinated”, and probably never were.

The other argument was that the virus was mutating only among the “unvaccinated.” This is a ridiculous proposition. Why would a person vaccinated against one strain of a virus be immune to a different strain? Why would this different strain, against whom the “vaccinated” were not protected, seek out only those who were “unvaccinated?” There was some plausibility to the idea that the “unvaccinated” were acting as incubators for new strains, but since they were pushing the idea that the original strain came from bats (who weren’t being vaccinated), this too was absurd.

And then there’s the question of scale. Were we really going to vaccinate all of Africa? How about the 1.3 billion Indians? All of South America? Seriously? In Big Pharma’s wet dreams, I suppose. Considering that perhaps one third of the ads you see on TV are for pharmaceutical products, we can imagine the source of mainstream news anchors’ boundless enthusiasm for these ideas.

But back to the Nazis. The truly frightening thing about this big lie was its nearly universal acceptance. Celebrities, “news” anchors, and others without medical degrees were given free rein to dispense medical advice on TV and on social media, so long as the advice was in favor of getting injected. Performance venues anointed themselves de facto medical consultants by restricting admittance to the “vaccinated,” and performers demanded that their followers get the jab. Family members and friends joined the chorus, un-inviting the heathen from their company. Everyone started parroting the illogic that they’d heard on their TVs. No one is safe, you see, and therefore the unvaccinated must be removed from polite society. It’s just the right thing to do. Because the TV says so.

Meanwhile thousands of non-compliant doctors, including doctors who had been involved in development of the injections, were removed from both mainstream and social media and even stripped of their medial licenses. Only government-approved doctors, doctors like Josef Mengele, doctors who would spout the government-approved lie, had valid opinions.

Here is an amazing collection of messages that were heard, apparently, by the vast majority of people in the USA. I stopped listening to TV “news” 20 years ago and so was never subjected to this, but at last, after having seen it, I can imagine what it must have been like to ingest such garbage every night. This video is pretty much the point of this article, so if you want to get the gist of what was done to us, please don’t skip it:

On Rumble: NO ONE IS SAFE UNTIL EVERYONE IS SAFE

On Bitchute: NO ONE IS SAFE UNTIL EVERYONE IS SAFE

Although some of the presenters in this video have been let go, as far as I know not one was fired specifically for repeating the big lie. Most of them are still at it. In fact, we will soon re-elect some of them. And then the liars will do it again, but on a bigger scale. Even more disturbing is the fact that these liars’ viewers, tens of millions of Americans who still get their news from their TVs, are still watching. No amount of lying, it seems, can dissuade the American public from flipping on their TV “news” again. Imagine volunteering to be brainwashed for at least a half hour every day.

So the Big Lie has already become the norm. Who knows what the next lie will be, and what the liars will accomplish with it? The possibilities are endless. But there’s one thing I know for sure: I now fully understand how the Nazis did it:

·         Devise some great lie, a Big Lie that divides the population into Good Guys and Bad Guys. The more ridiculous the lie, the better – the more it will seem indisputable.

·         Repeat the Big Lie in the mainstream media until it becomes Truth.

·         Censor and persecute anyone who dares dispute Truth.

·         Do this until the people who imagine themselves as Good Guys become the majority.

In the end, you’ll have the Good Guys eating out of your hand.

==== ADDENDUM OF 1/31/2024

Here’s an entertaining collection of some of their many big COVID lies, almost all in their own words:

·         The COVID Lie That Started It All

·         THE UNVACCINATED | "Nobody is Safe!"

·         Peter Hotez - Vaccine Expert

·         Children of the COVID!