Thank Jesus our President Learned from History

"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why
would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the
best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece.
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in
England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is
understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who
determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a
Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is
easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Hermann Goering to Gustave Gilbert after World War II

I wonder if Goering read Mark Twain:

"We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the
largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -
exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We
teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as
do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a
thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place - the
delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is
patriotism on the Russian plan."
- Mark Twain

"MadDogDave" <MDD-no-spam.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why
 > would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the
 > best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece.
 > Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in
 > England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is
 > understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who
 > determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
 > along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a
 > Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
 >
 > "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is
 > easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and
 > denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
 > to danger. It works the same way in any country."
 >
 > Hermann Goering to Gustave Gilbert after World War II
 >
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