Devon Eriksen@Devon_Eriksen_
For 80 years, the political landscape of the developed world has been defined by WW2.
Modern postwar liberalism became a sort of dark inverted religion, a religion not built around a god, but a devil. I call this religion "inverse fascism".
Inverse fascism has no plans, no vision, and no systematic understanding of the world. It just asks itself "What would Hitler do?", then does the opposite, and congratulates itself for being righteous.
Not only that, inverse fascism doesn't even understand who the fascists were, and what exactly they believed. It only sees the Axis powers as Saturday morning cartoon villains, comically evil antagonists in a half-hour show for kids.
That's no way to run a world.
You can't let infinity third world immigrants into developed countries just because Hitler wouldn't.
You can't hug and forgive violent criminals over and over again as they hurt innocent people, just because Hitler wouldn't.
You can't allow addicts and derelicts to camp on the streets of your cities, shooting up heroin, just because Hitler wouldn't.
You can't pressure all your female population into in the workforce and career-building in their early 20s, discouraging them from having babies, just because Hitler wouldn't.
You can't dismantle your unique culture, and destroy the racial composition of your society, just because Hitler wouldn't.
To do everything you do just because Hitler wouldn't is to allow Hitler, or your notion of Hitler, to define you.
Today, I saw a Japanese person making a joke about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A few days ago, I heard the President of the United States make a joke about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Perhaps in the days to come, we can hope to hear a Chinese man make a joke about Unit 731. To hear a German make a joke about the firebombing of Dresden. To hear an Israeli make a joke about the holocaust.
Perhaps the world is starting to heal. Perhaps we are no longer allowing our worst moments to define us.
Perhaps we don't need to scold ourselves about the wars of our ancestors. Or to blind ourselves to our virtues out of fear of repeating their sins.
Perhaps we can create a new political ideology, based not on asking what Hitler would not do, but on asking what helps us colonize the stars.