How Close?
How close do we have to get to any given loathsome extreme before people will wake up and realize we're on the path, only a few steps away? How long are the perceptive folks going to be called Chicken Littles, alarmists, and radicals?
I think it's foolish to throw out references to Nazi Germany, for example, under a misinterpretation of Godwin's law. There's one hell of a difference between screaming Bush=Hitler! and comparing the relationship of gun control to the Holocaust and other social disasters (read genocides and oppression).
I may make references to fascism, socialism, police states, and so on, but I'm not claiming we're there. Yet. I'm saying that certain steps are
proven in history to lead to such undesirable situations and the people had better wake the hell up before they look out the window some day and see the Gestapo coming up the front walk.
Now, I'm not claiming to be a great social prophet here. I'm a rank amateur compared to a great many bloggers, and my knowledge of all aspects of the cultural morph we're undergoing (for example) is inferior to just about all of theirs. I ask this question not for myself, but for my betters who are decried, ignored, or nonexistant in the minds of 95% of the population.
