THE NATURE OF ILLUSION

    Hermann Rauschning, an author long relegated to Dead White Male status, was a German dissident during the era of the Third Reich. Rauschning had originally been a Nazi and served as Governor of the Danzig Province during the early stages of the Regime. Like many Germans then, and many Americans today, he believed that Democracy had failed, and that salvation lay in electing a strongman who disregarded such unrealistic values. However, the metaphorical scales fell from his eyes after the Regime actually came to power and Rauschning---who today would be considered a Christian Conservative in his sociopolitical orientation---began speaking out that Nazi campaign promises didn't quite align with the traditional German values they claimed to espouse. He fell out of favor, and seeing the inevitable, quickly made a beeline for the then-free Western World in 1935.

    Before the outbreak of the war, Rauschning authored several books and gave speeches trying both the warn the West of they were facing and to bring back his fellow German Christian Conservatives to see the Light of Reason. In The Revolution of Nihilism, he stated this, which has some strong applicability to today's political climate:

   "The propagandist character of National Socialist tactics requires a broad and popular exposition of the aims of the regime. The listener abroad finds it inconceivable that anyone really entertaining such plans could have the innocence to avow them. But it is not innocence it is the subtlest cunning. It is just as effective, in the opposite direction, as the practice of the famous maxim of Mein Kampf that any lie will be believed if it is big enough. Any truth will be disbelieved, if it is big enough.

   "National Socialist policy is in any case much more candid than that of the democracies, with their Governments' secret diplomacy and cautious and elaborate shepherding of public opinion. We must therefore make up our minds that all the aims and tendencies described in the preceding section represent actual practical intentions. This applies especially to the principal aim, the redistribution of the world. Simple and popularized as this aim sounds, and impossible to take seriously as practical politics, it represents nevertheless the actual purpose of the regime. This is what makes any interpretation of National Socialist policy so difficult: there is no rational approach to its essential elements."

   History shows about how much either Germans or foreigners heeded Rauschnigg's warnings. Today we're seeing the same basic premise that any truth will be disbelieved if it is big enough, played out quite effectively. 

     There seems to be something in human psychology that trips into an immediate State of Denial when faced the fact that real disaster is impending. This has been a trend all through the 21st Century in the US and the English-speaking world in general, but it has moved like a steamroller among American Conservatives since 2020. Most still can't come to grips with the obvious fact that a Color Revolution has taken place here despite the Biden-led Government's first action of appointing John Kerry an unofficial ambassador to the World Economic Forum, and appointing WEF operatives to key positions; as well as implementing or promoting practically every policy the WEF has proposed then or since. Upon his appointment three years ago, Kerry stated publicly: "And yes, the Great Reset will happen...and it will happen with greater speed and greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine."

    Yet, Conservatives talk about the 2024 elections as though nothing whatsoever has changed since 2016. The fact that of the three leading candidates that the RNC has selected to replace Trump, two are WEF Young Global Leaders and the other a stooge of the WEF-connected Bush Machine doesn't seem the least bit suspicious to them. Some even imagine that even though the GOP has done nothing of any substance to combat voter fraud---and after the effort the Deep State put into removing him and the legal persecution since---that the President-in-Exile will be somehow permitted to return to the White House. 

   Since the Palestinian Civil War started six weeks ago, it has been an uphill battle trying to convince this same crowd that a Confederation of supranational Corporate Cartels and Western Deep States---one which openly boasts about its insinuation into national governments and has more (known) assets under its control than the European Union; as well as openly admitting to a goal of global domination, population control, and totalitarian control of every economic sector---is a greater threat to our Republic than an Arab militia of 20,000 men operating in a divided territory about the size of Delaware. 

  What is the cause of this widespread denial of reality? The Left blames it on 'systemic racism' which is an illusion in its own right and one that they use as a coping mechanism. Economic control---not racial supremacy---is the end game here, although we must candidly admit that racism on the Right isn't nonexistent. 

   I believe that what is driving Denialism on the Right is a collective, albeit subconscious, realization that we have lost any effectual popular control over the direction of our Government. It's comforting to believe that things within our reach--- like militarily trouncing a rag-tag militia thousands of miles away; or building a Border Fence; or electing Christian Nationalist Alpha Supermen---magically will save us from the inevitable. 

   Rauschnigg noted another very applicable tendency which applies to our own motives for Denialism: "Hitler's very realistic estimation of the masses was revealed in Mein Kampf. It may be said in general that at the back of the whole tactics and method of propaganda of National Socialism there is a complete contempt of humanity : the whole system is based on taking men as they are and pandering to their weakness and their bestiality. Such is its universal recipe. National Socialism banks on human sloth and timidity just as much in the case of the intellectuals, the middle classes, and the old ruling classes, as with the masses. It does so especially with foreign countries. In Germany it yields a much more effective means of domination than would the exclusive dependence on terrorism. The exploitation of envy and ill-will, of the lowest human instincts, the sowing of dissension between opponents, and the appeal to their ignoble qualities and notorious weaknesses have thus far unfailingly helped National Socialism to success, incidentally destroying the basis of a general sense of morality which was weak enough to begin with."

   That depiction sounds like a fairly accurate assessment of what passes for most political speech and strategy from today's Conservative Movement. They borrowed it, in fact, from American Liberals who degenerated into these tactics before we did. "The nation is kept in a state of alarm, and meanwhile, in the same breath, the regime takes credit for the maintenance of peace and order. Few things are more characteristic of the regime than its unscrupulous, lying glorification of an existing law and order which it destroys or publicly insults by whatever it does," Rauschnigg writes, which reads like a summary of both Democrat and Republican policy since the 21st Century commenced.

   In 2023, we are on the same trajectory as Germany was in 1933, and no amount of denial or wishful thinking is going to change that. Our problems are not political; they are spiritual ones. Americans need to understand that the Oligarchy---like the Nazis---are playing to our worst instincts and we're helping them their schemes by giving these base instincts free rein.