Each day seems to bring some new lurch toward totalitarianism. I don't understand what's going on at all, or why. I keep hoping we've reached the worst of it and from now on it will get better. But it doesn't. It just keeps getting worse.
I started re-reading Nora Waln's memoir of her stay in Germany from 1934 to 1938, The Approaching Storm. Things were fine, even optimistic, in the country in the early days of the National Socialist regime, but day by day, little by little, things got worse, terribly worse, until she and her husband had to flee for their lives. And she wasn't even Jewish, nor was her husband. He was an English classical musician, studying the great German composers, and she was an American Quaker of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction. Didn't matter. They had to get out or end up in a concentration camp.
How soon will that be true of us normies in these times? Will it really become true?
Klagen und Klatschen verboten!
