It has happened before, and sadly, it can happen again. As I have portrayed in earlier posts, the United States Government was successful, after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan in 1941, to detain loyal American citizens of Japanese descent behind barbed wire in what were euphemistically referred to as “Relocation Camps”, but were “Concentration Camps” by any other measure.
The government was able to do this for two reasons. First, there was obvious moral and patriotic public outrage against the “unprovoked” attack (actually we had done many things prior to December 7, 1941 to provoke the Japanese Empire, but I will let history be the judge of those actions). Second, it was easy to identify the “enemy” in our midst because of their appearance and surnames. The fact that the Roosevelt administration was allowed to do so without pushback from the legal branch of government is one of the more shameful moments in our national saga.
Now, after what can only be regarded as one of the most hotly contested elections in our nation’s history, the victors have decided not only to celebrate their victory, but to also punish the losers, and in a most shameful and indeed unconstitutional way. With the help of most of the national media and the “Big Tech” companies, all civil debate is being quashed. Companies like Parler are being eliminated, by denying them space on the big server platforms like Amazon, and even removing their “Apps” from Google Apps and the Apple App Store.
The Democrats have succeeded in turning our national capital into an armed camp, with thousands of National Guardsmen and other members of the military standing behind high metal fences topped by barbed wire. That these measures were even deemed necessary to protect the incoming president and vice-president at their inauguration ceremony is bad enough, but that they are now apparently being made semi-permanent is nothing less than shocking. The Democrats are obviously afraid of at least some of the people they are sworn to represent.
When a politician wins an election, they are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution and fairly represent ALL of the people in their state or district, not just those who voted for them. Instead, the people who voted for their opponent are now viewed as dangerous and to be feared and repressed by many Democrats. Because of this belief, and the actions they are taking because of it, they are creating what they claim to live in fear of. Namely, radicalized people who feel they have no choice but to fight back. This doesn’t include all conservatives of course, but enough that the Democrats might actually HAVE something to fear. They have in effect created their own monster, one that is totally beyond their control.
Where this leads is anyone’s guess, but the Democrats and their backers would be wise to de-escalate the situation by toning down their rhetoric, and begin trying to finds ways to work together to solve the real problems this country faces, now and in the future. If they instead continue their power grab, and use of a divide and conquer strategy, they will find they have sown the seeds of their own downfall.
As Abraham Lincoln said:
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
Americans are waking up to the realities of the situation, and they don’t like what they see. We are never going to accept anything like what happened to the Japanese American citizens during WW-II again. Our nation can’t survive another such travesty of justice, as much as some politicians would like to impose it.