One of the great privileges and honors I have ever had was being in the company of Elie Wiesel for the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I asked him to sign the event program with a note for my two year old daughter. This morning I gave it her (1)
after she bore witness to the Holocaust at Theresienstadt. I hope one day she will give it to her children. During that trip, I stood in the gas chamber at Auschwitz 1 and said a prayer. How did that happen? It is all explicable, all understandable. (2)
Extremism, hate, and lies merged with cynicism and greed to create a poisonous Fanaticism that nearly wiped out civilization. There is a quote by GK Chesterton that seems fitting in this moment of confusion and debate around “bothsiderism” (3)
“ Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance” I watched Trump last night being cheered by a gaggle of young, fanatical fascists as he lied, embraced an ideology of delusional victimization, grievance and revenge and weaved new chapters
of nonsense in his web of conspiracy theory lunacy, disproven by evidence and irrefutable fact, thousand of times over. Where do we all think this ends if it is not stopped? It won’t lead to Treblinka. Yet, Treblinka warns us, an ominous light house warning forever
about the evil that came when democracy died at the hands of fanatics and extremists. There should be no lack of imagination anymore in this country about what might happen if people who hate our highest ideas and ideals take power ever again. If we lose this country it is gone.
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