In May 1940 the world faced a menace unlike any it had ever seen. After a decade of economic body blows, much of the world was weary. With the carnage of WWI only 20 years past few people had the stomach to fight for much of anything. It was only with great reluctance that in September 1939 the British and the French declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland with the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, even after the declaration, after years of appeasement most British felt that there was little they could do to stop Adolph Hitler.
Things were indeed bleak and spirits were low. On May 10th Winston Churchill would become Prime Minister, and on that same day the Germans would invade and soon overrun Britain’s main ally, France. And so began the most important chapter in the life of the most important leader of the 20th Century.
That chapter had followed many others however. Winston Churchill spent years in the “wilderness” of British politics between the two world wars. For most of that time he had been ridiculed as a war monger for his constant warnings about the growing menace of, first, the Communists, then Hitler and the Nazis. He was considered a crack pot… what some today might call today a “Wacko Bird”.
Nonetheless, Churchill persisted, despite the fact that much of the enmity towards him came from those within his own party… particularly for his advocacy of free trade. By 1940 many in Britain were not sure that the Nazi juggernaut could be stopped.
A funny thing happened on the way to takeover of the entire world however. One man rallied the people of the one country that stood between Nazi dominance of the entire continent: Winston Churchill.
One month after becoming Prime Minister, Churchill gave a speech that laid out clearly why the fight was worth fighting:
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim?
I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
This speech, and many others inspired the people of his tiny nation to not only survive the Battle of Britain and deal Hitler his first significant defeat, but to go on and play a leading role in the victory over the Axis powers.
Barack Obama is not Adolph Hitler, the Democrats are not Nazis, and Ted Cruz is not Winston Churchill. Barack Obama is however a statist who seeks to replace free markets and individual freedom with state control and government mandates. The Democrats do however seek to control virtually every aspect of an American’s life. And Ted Cruz understands that victory demands a willingness to say things people may not want to hear, the conviction to stand behind principals worth fighting for, and perhaps most of all, the need to articulate why the fight is being undertaken in the first place.
Churchill was a pariah within his own party and ridiculed from both sides of the aisle, yet he continued to take to the floor of the Parliament and say the things that needed to be said, particularly when few others were perceptive enough to recognize the dangers or had the courage to face them. Eventually the British people recognized that Churchill had been right all along and that he was the man to lead them through their darkest hour. Ted Cruz is not Winston Churchill, but perhaps he carries the spirit of the “Last Lion” with him and if we’re lucky his voice will lead the country past the mortal danger posed by a government that has become too powerful, too dysfunctional, too secretive and too coercive for liberty to survive.
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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana is famous for a lot.
One thing sticks with me of all he said and wrote:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Well done, Vince.
There are always parallels in history.
Some are complete, others, partial.
But we can (and should) learn even from a partial parallel.
This is a good point. There are many politicians (even on the left) that I think all citizens should objectively look at and listen to. Cruz doesn’t seem threatening at all, but it’s sad the media is de-branding him just as they falsely branded Obama.
We really have to stop the whole trend of “branding” to generate our perceived heroes and villains in DC. Not sure how to do it, but I trust that reason, honor, and truth will prevail in the country as it usually does (as much as it can).
TED CRUZ IS SO TALENTED, FOR GOD SAKE LET HIM SPEAK HIS WORDS,
he is a blessing for THE PEOPLE of AMERICA,
his cause is for the benefit of the CITIZENS WHO ARE AMERICAN,
AND IT WON’T HURT HIM THAT HE IS 100% BETTER LOOKING THAN OBAMA,
25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany
(Condensed. Read article for the full comparative details)
(Well except for pro Muslim curriculum.)
(While I consider that a bit of a reach, it is clear that the public school systems are indoctrinating children, just as was done in Nazi Germany.)
See also: She survived Hitler and wants to warn America
DITTO
VERY WELL SAID AS USUAL VERY ACCUATE i find,
I BOUGHT THE BOOK ON totalitarianism very interesting,
THEY HAVE A SIDE OF THEIR BRAINS THAT IS INSANE AND
TAKE OVER ANY OTHER BRANCH OF
INTELLIGENCE WHICH COULD BE BRILLIANT ALONE,
BUT MATCH WITH THE TRAIT OF INSANITY IS BEASTLY,
I SAY IT’ COME FROM A CORRUPT GENE ALLOWED TO GROW AND GIVEN THE TOOL OF POWER , THERE COME THE NEED TO HURT AND DESTROY,
THAT TRAIT COULD BE ONLY BENEFICT TO USE IN DEFENSE OF AN ATTACK TO SELF
BUT THE PERSON WHO CANNOT CONTROL IT AND GAIN POWER IN ANY POSITION IS BOUND TO HURT AND EVEN USE CRIME AND CORRUPTION WHEN HIS TRAIT IS AWAKE AND DEMAND TO BE FED.
Ted Cruz = evil. Willful violation of Constitution (2.1.5)= deceptive, anti-USA, above-the-law egoist. Add in capitulation to theonomist lobby, even more corrupt.
Zero chance of Ted Cruz winning a general presidential election, b/c:
(1) We Constitutionalists who understand the Constitution’s natural born citizen clause is not a suggestion, but a law, will not vote for him, even if it means merely sitting out or writing in a no-chance candidate.
(2) Those of us GOP and libertarians who abhor the hijacking of the GOP by the theonomists and reconstructionists will never vote for him
(3) Pretty much all democrats oppose the reconstructionist/thoenomist agenda, so they’ll never cross over either.
Sick, evil man Ted Cruz.
ER
DID YOU SWALLOW YOUR TONGUE AND BURNED YOUR FINGER ON THIS?
YOU SOUND LIKE A MAD DOG ON A LEASE,
CAN’T YOU DO BETTER THAN THAT?
WE DIN’T UNDERSTAND WHY THE MADNESS CAME FROM,
BECAUSE A CONSEFVATIVE HAD THE GUTS YOU DID NOT HAVE TO DEMAND THE EXTENSION OR BETTER A COMPLETE DEFUND OF ALAW WHICH THE PEOPLE DON’T WANT,
NOTHING TO BE SO MAD ABOUT,
UNLESS YOU ALL CONSTITUTIONALIST ARE ANGRY
FOR NOT THINKING OF SPEAKING OUT BEFORE,
WELL TED CRUZ BEAT YOU TO THE PUNCH,
and TED CRUZ has that inner flame which AMERICA need so bad at this time of being destroyed bit by bit,
dam if you don’t see it, you will come too late to help,
Shortly after the Munich conference in 1938 the British intelligence service, MI5, sent a message stating that Hitler thought Britain too decadent and powerless to protect itself and democracy. On the same day that British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, flew to Munich: British Intelligence wrote: ‘ It is apparent that Hitler’s policy is essentially a dynamic one, and the question is, what direction will it take next? If the information in the (report), which has proved generally reliable and accurate in the past, is to be believed, Germany is at the beginning of an Napoleonic era and her rulers contemplate a great extension of German power. ‘
Western Europe escaped its demise because Churchill threw appeasement policy into the dustbin of history. Churchill was one of the very few who saw how Hitler had poisoned the Germans (and many followers in surrounding countries) with his Fascist/ Nazi ideology. And the rest of Europe sat like a frightened rabbit in the headlights, staring at Hitler’s propaganda war machine and hoped that the rattlesnake Hitler would slither back into his basket under their imploring eyes.
And who does Chamberlain remind one of? Think about who removed the bust of Churchill from his office, and about the time the microphone was left on and the world could listen to Obama telling Medvedev what he would do about disarmament commitments if he was re-elected, ‘ after my election, I have more flexibility’. Obama is an obvious placater and appeaser. As for Ted Cruz, if he indeed carries such a ‘spirit of the “Last Lion” with him’ to defeat Obama’s socialist wrecking ball he deserves nothing but respect. Will he run for President in 2016? And what’s the press going to make of his Tea Party support?
Augustus
HI,
very good info, yes, and it was said that even the future KING of ENGLAND
WAS IT EDWARD I THINK LIKE HITLER,
WILL WE EVER LEARN WHERE THE TURNING POINT GOT HIM TO BECAME A MONSTER,
THIS WOULD BE INTERESTING TO CHECK ON A PERSON GIVEN THE ULTIMATE POWER,
when does the brain collapse and why DOES IT STOP IT’S ADVANCE ON A QUEST TO MAKE A PERFECT WORLD
I think we all human should know our limit if we want power over other human,
and with the science so advance< we should have our wannabe leader of a so large country as AMERICA IS
probe to see the point of collapse on their brain, because that is the begining of negative destructive beastly
action on a people tolerant and forgiving for a long time accepting the punishment of the leader turned worse than an animal,
because we don't see that beastly behaviour in animal kingdom,which is a will to hurt those who depend on
that leader.
bye
Hi Bees
Yes you are right. What turns some people into monsters and power-hungry megalomaniacs? Let those who deny the existence of souls explain.
Bye
Augustus
YES,
maybe they are afraid of the darkness they feel deep inside,
and the only way to fight what they cannot extirpate,
is to blame it on all other human who are under their power,
and punish them constantly,
thinking it will feed their beast.
bye
@ER: Not much of a “Cruz” fan, huh? Actually, except for RINOS like you, we true conservatives know exactly why we sent Cruz to Washington- same for Lee, Rubio, and others.
People need to stand up and be vocal patriots in this war- and believe me, it IS a war. The very ideas of zombies like obama, Reid, and others of their ilk are anathema to us. We believe that we need to be free men, not yoked and strangled to an ideology that is enslaving men and women .
If you cannot see this, than I pity you, for you have your ideological blinders on and you will be one of those who will march to your death because the dogma you have been wed to tells you to do so.
Blake
YES SO TRUE
BYE