“There is a man alone, without family, without children, without God; he builds Legions but he doesn’t build a nation. A nation is created by families, a religion, a tradition; it is made out of the hearts of mothers, the wisdom of fathers, the joy and the exuberance of children. Germany under Hitler is an all-swallowing State disdainful of human dignities and the ancient structure of our race; it sets itself up in the place of everything else and the man who alone incorporates in himself this whole state has neither a God to honor, nor a dynasty to conserve, nor a past to consult. For a few months I was inclined to believe in National Socialism; I thought of it as a necessary fever, and I was gratified to see that there were associated with it for a time some of the wisest and most outstanding Germans. But these one by one he has got rid of or even killed; he has left nothing but a
bunch of shirted gangsters. This man could bring home victories to our people each year without bringing them Glory. But of our Germany which was a nation of poets and musicians and artists and soldiers he has made a nation of hysterics and hermits engulfed in a mob and led by a thousand liars or fanatics.”
Kaiser Wilhelm II on Adolf Hitler, in a 1938 interview given for Ken Magazine, 15 December 1938
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Footage of that man had a great scareful impact on me as a child. Stil does today in my twillight years. I suppose I recognized his nihilistic aura for what it was, which emanates colder vibes than a good horror movie like “the exorcist” ever could.
It breaks my heart that his nihilism seem to have infected so many in latent form, to break thru in full force today on a scale far worse then little Germany! And still, so many not seeing it, often projecting it back as if it is a pure German DNA problem!
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Sadly, the same could be said of whoever has been running the United States these past few decades.