About the ‘Schuldfrage’.
The question of guilt.
Say that tomorrow the Russians show undeniable proof of bioweapon research in labs in Ukraine (or whatever they want to call them). Perhaps even of complicity in the development and release of Covid-19.
Hard facts, showing development of biological weapons that are engineered to selectively target Slavs with genetic markers that are predominantly exclusive to Russian males. Or insert any ethnicity here.
Pure evil.
And the United States of America will be blamed.
Just as the Germans will have to carry the shame of Hitler with them, Americans will have to carry the shame of such inhumane and absolutely dangerous research, all over the world.
I have to make 2 important observations, at this point.
First, with a detour. I am born and raised in Belgium, but became a US citizen about 8-9 years ago. Still have the Obama auto-pen signed welcome letter. I am one of you, and I took on your fate, for good or ill, when I made that step.
Yet, I am also an outsider, and look at Americans with the eyes and sensitivities of a European. What is obvious to you, to the point you don’t notice or are not aware, is strange to me. And vice versa. An interesting position to be in.
Shortly after I moved to the US, and married my wife (MI born Jersey girl), I had this conversation with my sister-in-law and 2 of my brothers-in-law, both well versed in history, one serving in the US Army. Topic was Nazi Germany. Could such happen in the US? They claimed, rather adamantly, that it NEVER could. EVER. Arguments went from ‘we are better’ to ‘we have checks and balances’ and ‘our constitution/bill of rights’.
I claimed that it absolutely could happen anywhere. Perhaps not overnight, but with a gradual, step-by-step approach. I pointed at the Milgram Shock Experiment (Read about that here: https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html), among other points.
I also pointed out how the war on terror had already led to test cases in Europe talking about Christian religious extremists being lumped together with Islamic extremists, where the Christian extremists were defined much more loosely, and included those who opposed gays, abortion, etc. even if they never talked about violence or hatred.
The acceptance of that of the society at large, at that time, is a huge red flag, signaling a decline towards an environment that allowed the Holocaust to happen. But not in 1930s Germany, but in 2000-2010 Western democracies.
The ability to do great good, is always combined with the ability to do great evil. A weak man cannot do great deeds of strength, building a house by himself for a homeless person, but neither can that weak man tear down a house from an enemy.
This is a HUMAN trait, not tied to any ethnicity or nationality. Not even tied to any period of time or even religion. I know Catholic saints, as well as Catholic sinners, for example.
That conversation was just left, and never fully resolved.
The current events, seeing how quick Covid could justify emergency powers no one knew our leaders could draw from, would have definitely helped my case.
And second: we are, as a nation, as a people, responsible for the leaders we elect and have. Period. It is not always our chosen people that are voted in, but that is the nature of voting: we accept the collective authority given to our leaders: the people have decided.
But if you look at the absolute lack of information we the people have been given, by a media that has been sold completely to the elites, to the point that they became indistinguishable from propagandists, how can we properly assess the candidates, the issues at play, the real concerns people have?
What if primaries are rigged to favor the party chosen candidates? What if the elections themselves are rigged?
“The voter can't make a credible judgment on people based on lies.” someone wrote.
Exactly.
And add massive voter fraud to the mix, covered up by a complicit media, and things fully change.
At that point, we are victims, and no longer fully responsible. Some of us DID see it, and acted. But without a proper media to spread the word, and drum up the public outrage and support needed to force change, that went nowhere.
(And remember how the Government agencies were weaponized to kill the rising Tea Party!)
So we had to build our OWN news and media channels, a very slow and difficult process, but it is happening.
Others, of course, were oblivious, and believe the MSM narratives. It is hard to believe that our own government would willfully cheat and lie, after all! Or do such crazy dangerous things in secret labs! Or defraud elections on such a massive scale! Banana republics, perhaps, but NOT in THESE UNITED STATES! Beacon of FREEDOM! (Granted, that STILL is hard to believe, I think even for each of you, yet here we are).
So here is my conclusion, after my first judgement of guilt, and my 2 observations (assuming that there will be hard, irrefutable proof of US involvement in extremely dangerous bioweapon research and production, as it looks that such DID happen, we already knew about US gain of function, after all).
The US will suffer an initial huge blow. The home of the brave, and land of the free, beacon of freedom, police of the world, bringer of freedom at 600 rounds a minute in oppressed countries all over the world, is unmasked as worse than Nazi Germany, developing race/ethnicity based bioweapons, among other cruel bioweapons.
But the moment that the massive election fraud is proven, and the Deep State is unmasked, and with that, the deep ties with China all over our academics, research, business, and government bodies, we will be able to rise above that initial blame and guilt.
Still, ONLY if we indeed do OUR due diligence, and vote massively, work tirelessly in our local governments and parties, and show that even though we were a victim, we won’t sit back and blame others, but, in true and tested American fashion, took the bull by the horns, and blazed our own trails, building a better tomorrow. By taking responsibility. By apologizing, where needed, for what happened when we did not look.
Yes, there will be a very uncomfortable period ahead for every American, if tomorrow brings real proof of wrongdoing in those labs. A very humbling and shameful period.
Yet, as I see it, we will be able to overcome even that, and come out on top, stronger and better.
We need this storm, to clean up the deposits of the swamp, clogging our systems.
The best, truly, is yet to come.
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Some further thoughts:
There is a difference between individual guilt, and collective guilt.
Even then, there are different degrees, as well.
In an ideal world, with a free people in a free country, the people ARE responsible.
Now, with each step away from that ideal situation, the collective responsibility changes. People in a dictatorship cannot just rise up at any time, unprepared. They are NOT responsible for what happens AGAINST their will, without proper channels for them to protest or change the outcomes.
In the US, we have the perception of a free country, with free press, and free elections. As such, we ARE responsible, in the eyes of all who see the US as such free country.
That was the point of my thread, to explain that this is how we will be judged, initially. But also that there are factors at play that made us a whole lot less free than we thought we were.
Some people point at the SES (Senior Executive Service), and how they, as entrenched bureaucrats, form a very hard to fire backbone that weighs very heavily on policy and decision making on the long term.
And then there is the WEF and Davos crowd, as well, plus our own deep state. And China, in God knows how many ways infiltrated.
But we are not a dictatorship (yet), and we DO have means to rise up and change things, however hard.
And the beauty is, we see this happen, all over the country: we the people taking back the authority, and control over our own institutions.
On local level, first, building up.
We let that local level go, and then we lost all the higher levels, as well. In that sense, it is our collective fault for letting it slip. For not sending poll watchers (I read that for many years, the GOP poll watchers were hopelessly understaffed, for several reason).
Or school boards. Etc. You know where I go with that.
So in the degree we rise up, and take responsibility, I do believe we don't bear guilt for what was forced upon us, against our will, and without our full knowledge (media playing a very dirty role here, forsaking their main reason of existence as 4th power).
Sin/guilt requires awareness and consent.
However, we are DONE with this crap.
Time to shed light on those in the shadows, working against the people.
Time to take back the reigns, and our responsibility.