by Arneb » Mon Sep 30, 2019 8:49 pm
Well, that was my question, right? The problem here is that thee are two ways to deal with that kind of pressure. You can try to remove the tyrant (by way of the impeachment process in the present case) because you start to fear that not only women, blacks, immigrants and Democrats may become a target. You may become a target. Or you side with the tyrant hoping that only women, blacks, immigrants and Democrats will remain the target.
It's the first way of reacting that takes guts, the second... well, all you need is the hope that you've chosen the winning side, and that the winning side will continue to chose you.
Martin Niemöller, a resistant Protestant priest who survived the Nazi regime wrote: "Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist. Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat. Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter. Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte. "
"When the Nazis came for the Communists, I remained silent; I wasn't a Communist, after all; when they locked up the Social Democrats, I remained silent; I wasn' a Social Democrat, after all; when they came for the Trade Unionionists, I remained silent; I wasn't a Trade Unionist, after all; when they came for me, no-one was left to protest"
Non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem