Racist!

I've read countless books about WWII, including a diary of a Berliner kept during the last couple of years of the war, as the Allies closed in on the German capital. The people of Germany weren't all fanatical Nazis, yet they went along. Or did they? When neighbors could turn people in for saying anything anti-German, anti-Nazi, or even "defeatist talk", they got scared. Doing the right thing was shelved because whole families -- ordinary Germans, not just the groups hated by the Nazis -- could be sent to prison or concentration camps.

Today in America we have a similar phenomenon, but instead of "defeatism" and "anti-Nazi sentiments", it's "Racism!"

Anyone who thinks illegal immigration is a bad thing is called a racist.

Anyone who thinks affirmative action is a bad thing is called a racist.

Anyone who opposes the Ground Zero Mosque is a racist.

Anyone who opposes Obama's massive spending and expansion of the federal government is a racist.

These spurious claims are often packaged in specialized language, like "xenophobia" or "islamophobia", but it's the same thing. And it's damaging to the country. People are afraid of doing the right thing, because they might be denounced -- just as many Germans were afraid to stand up to Hitler's rule.

Case in point: The Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex. was a known radical with jihadist sympathies. The guy actually wrote jihadist slogans on psychiatric evaluations for his patients. Yet nobody spoke out loudly, and nobody acted. Why? Fear.

The left wing press (85% of the press is leftist) is perpetuating the problem. When the Ft. Hood massacre took place -- a killing in the name of Allah -- the press ignored the real problem, and invented bizarre excuses for him. The strangest of them all was "vicarious trauma". As the murdering jihadist was a psychiatrist, it was suggested that his "inexplicable" rampage was caused by internalizing the problems of his patients. It was as if the media had slipped into the Twilight Zone.

Here are other examples of how the media handled the Ft. Hood jihad attack:

LA Times

NY Times

USA Today

We need an injection of sanity into American society, and we'll need new leaders to affect it.