Well we have tickets today for a first showing of the Anthony Hopkins film....One Life....an adaptation of the life of a British citizen....Nicholas Winton....filmed as flashbacks....as he attempts to rescue children out of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia prior to the start of World War II.
Last evening I watched....via my computer....a film adaptation of the Broadway play and 1972 Hollywood film....Cabaret. The first time I had seen this play was on the Pitt campus in 1973. I was on a date....and I can't remember just who my date was....but the theme of the play itself has haunted me ever since then.
I have next to me as I type a book that I reviewed in these posts sometime in the past....Hitler's First Hundred Days....by Peter Fritzsche....2020. I just felt that I needed to read it again. I am adding blue highlighter over and around the green highlighter from my first reading of the book.
We in America are so close to the Weimar/cabaret culture of Germany of the 1930s where the communists were physically battling the national socialists in the streets. The book details an evening....a quarter past eleven actually....on January 30, 1933 when a startling behind-closed-doors decision was made in the upper echelons of the German government....where Hitler was settled upon as a compromise to replace the despised Weimar regime.
It's difficult to compare Donald Trump to this time period because one immediately wants to think about concentration camps and gas chambers. We are not budding national socialists....but the similarities of one man....vain and vile....coming out of nowhere....and bewitching a large portion of the populace....and then assuming total control of everything....is just too hard to ignore.
Nazi was a syllabic anagram for national socialists. The system was that which had to be deposed....the socialist/communists were the enemy....and the Jews were the lightning rod used to start the fire. In our case it's the establishment and the liberal/progressives and the illegals. They had their own paramilitary force....and their own press.
"Better Hitler than Weimar" was the reasoning....just as 'better Trump than Biden' is our excuse. We definitely have our own press. I am on news websites dozens of times a day....and Fox and Breitbart....are our propaganda tools just as NBC and others are the other side's propaganda tools....and that is only the major media....for when you take in all the podcasters out there....and the smaller news sources....they are a potent tool for giving only half the information to their side....and that often embellished and distorted. German ministers and preachers were taken in....defending the fatherland more that the gospel of Jesus Christ....and that unfortunately is too often what we have today.
My wife does the Wordle puzzle every morning....and she just came up to me to show me how she solved it in three tries. Now if you work this daily puzzle....and have not done so yet today....this is a SPOILER....do not read! The word for today is....toxin. The Oxford Dictionary chooses every year a....Word Of The Year....and in 2018 they chose the word....toxic. I have an extended post on this....last posted October 17 of 2023 if you are interested....the word originated from the Greek....toxon....which gives us toxic and toxin. This naming of the Word of the Year was before the pandemic....almost pointing to to the poison....another meaning of the word....that savaged the world and America beginning in 2020.
Donald Trump is toxic....a poison....that came out of nowhere. If you are a registered Republican....you're not under the assumption that we have a political party anymore where its members choose a nominee are you? That is gone folks. This today is a super-organized....tightly-controlled....retribution-alarmed....demagogue-affixed....spiritual movement....(not Christianity)....looking to a similar millennium.
OK....I didn't get this posted in time and thus I just returned from the theater. It was one of the smaller theaters....65 seats....just about all filled....and we were in those front rows where you have to look up at the screen.
I kind of knew what to expect....and being up front somewhat separated from the regular seating....I made no effort to wipe the few tears crawling down my cheeks at the end. When I watch these films on Nazi Germany....and put them next to Bible prophecy....I'm not considering concentration camps for Jewish people or any of us. Rather I'm continually....what's the word....it has to be greater than astounded....not so much as how the people were deceived....but how the Christians were deceived. It's not the potential of the movement itself....people who know the destructive power of progressive wokism....but the potential of the man consolidating power in the name of that movement! It's not like we haven't been warned of deception and delusion in God's Word....it's more that the warnings do not line up with what we want. We want America to be....great again....and the 80s would be a good place to start....even if that is when Billy Graham was starting to get fanatical about warnings us that judgment was ahead.
Oh....the movie? See it. Hopkin's performance was compelling....as were that of all the others....and take a tissue.
