No Allies To Our Axis

If you live in America and have a cable TV subscription, as I do, there's barely an hour of the day or night when you can't find a World War Two documentary to watch. World War Two is a big deal here, doubtless because that was the last war where we unequivocally won, and could say without reservation "We were the GOOD guys in that fight." (Even the bad things we did then were exponentially less evil than what the Nazis did -- our concentration camps for citizens of unpopular ethnicity were still better than their concentration camps for citizens of unpopular ethnicity.)

But the German people never rose up to overthrow the Nazis -- had Germany won the war, or Hitler been smart enough to never start it in the first place, the swastika flag might still fly over Germany today, and the Holocaust dismissed as mere conspiratorial ravings. Indeed, most Germans never even thought there was any reason to overthrow the Nazis -- after all, Hitler "only" grabbed all those emergency powers for himself after the burning of the Reichstag, and claimed valid-sounding national-security reasons for doing so, and the majority of Germans then -- like the majority of Americans now -- told themselves "I have nothing to worry about, because I've done nothing wrong. Only terrorists and evildoers need fear the growing power of the state."

The Nazis stopped ruling Germany because the victorious Allied armies demanded it. But there's no country or group of countries on Earth willing and able to do the same for America, if it comes to that. Voting won't do it either: where the NDAA, TSA and other unconstitutional monstrosities are concerned, there's no difference whatsoever between Obama and Romney. If we Americans don't clean up our mess, there's nobody who will do it for us.