Strap in folks; it’s gonna be a long one. Read, rt:
a la @cboyack

“Milton Mayer was a Jewish American journalist of German descent who interviewed a variety of Germans, with different backgrounds and circumstances, to better understand how Nazism became a mass movement”

“By the end of his project, Mayer observed that he could “see a little better how Nazism overcame Germany—not by attack from without or by subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler.”

”Each step was so small,” one of Mayer’s interviewees explained, “so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle,”

“what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.”

"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last," he continued, "but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow."

“You can see where this is going, right?

"You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it.…"

And here's where the interviewee lands his sucker punch at humanity:”

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently

“shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. “

“In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

“...But here's the thing. Hitler (and others like him) actually did rise to power. They actually did manipulate their populations into accepting their evil designs by small measures until they had the power to do the terrible things that they did. “

“There's a reason we know the "frog in boiling water" analogy. There's a pattern wicked governments follow in bringing people into bondage and getting away with (literal) murder.

Are we paying attention? Are we heeding the warnings we're seeing?”

@cboyack continues on to mention the arrests in Mascow, ID + Ohio mom taser and arrest for NO face diaper ”Everyone just stands there....just lets it happen. Watching bystanders mumble to themselves about the injustice of it, or take cellphone video, or talk in whispers”

“When people are arrested for singing hymns without covering their faces, we have a problem.

When mothers are tased in front of their children for not covering their faces while sitting outside, we have a problem.

When does it stop? How much farther is it going to go?”

“What are we going to do about it?

I think we are closely reaching a point of no return where if society is conditioned to accept all the small/medium violations of our rights, there’s no point they will object to large ones that follow.

What will YOU do about it?”