America Seen Historically as the New Weimar Republic

On the other hand, if one were to go back and supposedly have a conversation with, say, Lord Acton and tell him that by the early 20th century, starting in the 1920s in Italy and 1930s in Germany, there would be millions of people giving the Caesarian salute to a “fearless” leader, he would just have laughed at such a truly preposterous and highly ridiculous notion!

Today’s American people, however, have absolutely no rational excuse whatsoever as to be totally ignorant of what can, in fact, happen here.  Perhaps, someday, many people will then crescively come to rightly honor Leo Strauss for courageously giving the needed clarion call of warning, though it is doubtful at best.

Unless, therefore, something incredible happens to turn the tide of historical events in an absolutely positive direction counter to tyrannization, Strauss, if he were alive, would easily recognize the situational Weimarization of America as becoming truly inevitable.

For what is essentially occurring is the slow destruction of a once mighty nation in this world; but, its passing away is being done not with any fantastic expectant bang, as T. S. Eliot knew, only a whimper.  And, even a minor controversy, such as, e. g., what is now happening to the talk-show personality known as Mike Savage who has been totally banned from Great Britain, is only a merely slight sideshow in a much greater, larger contest of total power.  Savage is just a tiny, proverbial pawn on a truly gigantic and expansive chessboard.

Admittedly, a democratic despotism will help, for a while, to generally support the effective tyrannization of this country until a master of events, a fearless leader, emerges from much resulting chaos and anarchy to take command of the situation.  God help America.

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*Weber had once sociologically proclaimed routinization, bureaucratization, and rationalization as three of the real and vital keys to an improved, progressive world of advanced civilization to be positively guaranteed by such good things being operational and, furthermore,  their societal and cultural advancement to be used for enhanced enlightenment; by 1918, he then fundamentally regretted that he once had any belief in routinization, bureaucratization, and rationalization; this is because these had contributed, he had sadly concluded, to more successfully bringing about World War I and, moreover, contributing very significantly to its many extreme horrors. 

And yet, e. g., in almost all current Sociology textbooks, his quite definite change of mind on these and other important subjects is almost never, if ever, mentioned.  This is, logically, fully in line with PC thinking, of course.