It goes right back to Caesar

As far as I can tell, this stuff goes all the way back to Julius
Caesar: sidelining of the democractic process, abrogation of the
constitution, institution of permanent war. Does any
of this ring a bell ?

How about violation of the Geneva convention, or
the scapegoating and persecution of a minority group?

We should know this stuff by now !

I mean. Hitler. Pinochet. World War II...

1984. A Brave New World. War and Peace - especially the war bit.

And you know the scary thing ?

Whats scary is that they say that in Germany in 1936 it was
easy to believe in peace and the future. They lived in a Republic
after all, with strict laws regarding what the government could
and could not do, and all looked well.

And yet, as is the way with these things, by the time they started to
come for your neighbours in the night, by the time people started
to get scared - by then it was too late.

You see it takes a lot of courage to open your eyes and see
what is happening, and I dont mean courage in the face of others.

Rather you need courage to question your own perceptions,
because nobody wants to believe that their beloved have gone astray. The cheater's lover is always the last to realise.

Please God, wake me up and tell me I'm dreaming.