Last month I put up a post about a movie titled, “Hallelujah I’m a Bum”. I cannot tell you how much that movie disturbed me. As it is I was only able to tolerate it in ten minute doses for a total viewing time of about 30 minutes. But even that limited exposure continues to haunt me today. In my mind there is an aura of death surrounding the whole picture. I didn’t quite understand why that was. I mean it’s no secret that I detest the communist philosophy but I found this movie to be positively sickening. I have tried to put it out of my mind but my efforts to forget what I’d seen have not gotten the job done. Last night I decided to confront the issue in order to try to figure out why I could not let go of it.

I knew it had to do with Al Jolson, the star of the movie. It was his Jewishness that was irking me for some reason. I am neither Jewish nor anti-Semitic but I have always had a deep curiosity about the Nazi holocaust. I rarely pass up the opportunity to read another book related to the subject. I have never been able to get my mind around the irrational hatred that Germans and Slavs had for the Jewish people. I know that many of Europe’s Jewish children were as blond and blue eyed as any German child. Yet they were stuffed into gas chambers or shot in the head by the millions like so many rats. I simply cannot grasp inhumanity on that scale. It is incomprehensible to me.

Nor am I able to grasp the passivity with which the parents of those children surrendered them and their own lives to the butchers without a fight. I can’t believe I would do that. I would not let myself live to witness such a thing. I know I could not have stopped the Nazis from killing me and my children but I’d rather have died fighting them than stood by and watched them murder my kids. I know that this subject has to be a lot more complicated than it seems on the surface so with every book I read on the holocaust I look for answers to the same questions over and over again.

They are the same questions I ask as I study the people who died in Jonestown, Waco and Heaven’s Gate. Why did these people destroy themselves? Why didn’t they see the ultimate result of joining these cults from the beginning? I can’t answer that question. Nor can I say that I am immune from falling into a death cult myself as easily as they had under the right conditions. I believe that self-doubts about my own susceptibility to blind faith are what make me a “right-winger”. This worry is fed by what I see going on with the Left every day. Their ability to hate on command as they demonstrated with Sarah Palin last year was positively frightening. It was exactly that same animistic reflexivity that was demonstrated by the German people under the spell of Hitler and Goebbels. And if Leftists are not suicidal by nature how could anyone who cares about themselves and their children allow themselves to buy into the insane claims made on behalf of government health care? Is it a matter of stupidity or is there a death wish underlying it all?

I cannot see any other explanation for people who embrace anarchy and/or communism than that they are suicidal. The slaughter of over 200 million human beings last century in the name of these philosophies is clear testimony that they lead only to totalitarianism and death. It is impossible not to see the truth of it except by blinding one’s own intellect – to simply refuse to see. We can excuse those Jews who chose to believe they were on the way to take a shower. They had no historical reference of genocide to go by outside of their own Bible. Today, however, we have many examples of Socialist and Communist dictatorships to compare with each other and recognize the patterns of human destruction they inevitably lead to. Why, then, does the Left continue to urge us to go down paths of self-destruction?

As I reconsider, now, the naïve joyfulness on the part of Mr. Jolson as he played the happy-go-lucky socialist bum I have to ask myself if he had any inkling of what was going to be happening to the Jews of Europe ten years after he made that movie. The film was released in 1933 when Marxist Communism seemed to hold out a bright new promise for humanity. You might say that hope and change was in the air. I can imagine that a young pseudo-intellectual actor could be easily taken in by the thin veneer of the Marxist utopian concept. I understood, too, from all of my reading on pre-Nazi Europe that Mr. Jolson was not unique in his admiration of Communism. European Jews were the staunchest supporters of that utopian ideal in those days. It seemed to hold out the promise of a classless, race blind society wherein a Jew would finally be accepted as the equal of any man. Why wouldn’t Mr. Jolson whistle a happy tune at such a thought?

I believe that watching Jolson act out his delusions while I was fully aware of the future that he was promoting is what made the film so grotesque in my eyes. To watch this man sing and dance to a Marxist tune that I knew would bring about the gruesome slaughter of millions in his near future made his actions repulsive to me. And I have to be perfectly honest, at the risk of promoting a bigoted stereotype, that it raised my ire at Jews worldwide who still have not learned a primary lesson of the holocaust. Socialism and communism are invitations to slavery and death. How can it be that the strongest supporters of these philosophies today are the Jews? Jews who know what I’m talking about KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.

Never again? How could they not mean it? How could they forget the horrors of the holocaust when living examples of Nazi brutality are still in their midst? How could they vote for and finance the Democrat Party when it is so obvious that it has become the Socialist Party; Democratic in name only? I am angry at the Jews. I’m furious with them. They force me to conclude that human beings have an irrational impulse to embrace death. I don’t want to believe that but I know that by denying it I, too, become one of the living brain dead.

Yesterday we had another bloody example of what happens to a nation or a People who will not defend itself – who’s Leftists turn a blind eye to the butchers who would claim their lives and who would deny that this is actually happening. Why are my borders still wide open? Why are members of the religion of murder allowed into my national defense forces? Why aren’t those who are here illegally evicted from my nation? Who agreed to this suicide pact? It wasn’t me.

Let me say it then. Let me pick up the chant abandoned by the Jews…NEVER AGAIN!
It is time to water the tree of liberty!