A cautionary tale from history: in the balance of human rights and inhumane wrongs

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“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, opined those salient words in a 1948 speech to the British House of Commons after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Eighty years later, the United States has undoubtably morphed into a lucid nightmare, of which, we are all very much awake.

The draconian dismantling of America’s civil society under the guise of “waste, fraud, & abuse”, reckless abandonment of judicial due process, congressional oversight & federalism, mass firings of career civil servants, who keep the cogs of our federal government turning, educate our children, prevent epidemics of food and vector-borne disease, offer aid to ally nations and much more.

The media has become the de-facto enemy of the state, by virtue of being… the media.

Finally, the White House, has become the new “bully pulpit”, aligned with Project 2025, and is facilitating a sort of political-ideological metastasis within our state legislatures.

This is eerily similar to another period in history: when that person, wrote that manuscript, and created that thing which economically and socially disenfranchised those people, and codified those laws, and constructed those places where human lives were warehoused, and stripped of humanity.

We must learn about our past.

Lest, we are bound to repeat it.