Restoring the Nation to Former Greatness

World-changing leaders are known for their bold actions.

Oct 03, 2025

Consider the progression of events: A group of citizens who were not of the group in power stormed a government building to stop those in power. Those who stormed the building became the group in power, and then used their new power to get retribution on their former enemies.

Even before the new government started trying to right the wrongs of the old government in the eyes of angry citizens, high inflation and economic concerns had become a burden on most of the working class. The working class, who felt the nation had lost its former greatness, naturally wanted that greatness back. They focused their ire on immigrants who were seen as competitors to the native-born citizens who often retained a separate culture and language from native citizens.

When the new government came into power, it started capturing the migrants to remove them from the cities. It separated them from the populace by detaining them in remote prisons around the nation that quickly became infamous for their harsh conditions, even if the detainees had done nothing more criminal than being in the country. Children were sometimes separated from their parents. Some of the people who were thrown to the ground in raids due to their race were even legal citizens.

Journalists who spoke out against the government’s policies and the increasingly violent arrests, sometimes utilizing soldiers, and the harsh containment situations of the migrants were threatened by the government for being critical of its actions. The press was accused of frequently publishing the journalists’ false news, as being full of lies. Anyone who criticized the head of government with even so much as a joke, could wind up in trouble. The government censored the press with verbal and sometimes extreme legal threats.

Universities that countered the government’s political ideology in league with the mainstream media were punished by the new government. Even military leaders—or maybe especially military leaders—not in line with the new government’s policies faced certain termination. This was made clear to all the top leaders. Join the new plan, or you’ll be exited.

The government also started to arrest citizens who tried to prevent the arrests and confinement of any immigrants they knew to be in the country lawfully, particularly neighbors they saw being dragged into the infamous places of confinement especially built for the migrants. The government increasingly used its military more and more to police the cities of the migrants, instead of local law enforcement. Many saw this as a police state set up to enforce the new ideology aimed at national greatness.

The government teamed up with the nation’s richest capitalists to bolster new ventures, driving tax dollars into the coffers of tycoons. It, thereby, gained a share of control in the companies, picking winners by greasing the skids for projects of those companies that welcomed the government’s involvement. Thus, the government could better steer the economic redevelopment of the nation.

Rumors of possible war with Russia began to emerge, as the government became more openly hostile toward Russia. It also started flexing its muscles by talking about taking over parts of other nations or even annexing entire nations to form a new world order. It began to become evident that the expansion of empire was the preferred path back to lost greatness. People began increasingly talking about another world war coming on that would likely be fought against parts of the Middle East all over again and against Russia.

However, the government, deep in debt, was, in fact, hopelessly broke and needed money to finance all of this expansion and economic reconstruction. The citizens could never afford to pay off the debt the nation had already accumulated, so the government started to develop a new national currency as inflation continued to eat away the value of the old currency. Would it someday take a wheelbarrow of the old currency just to buy a loaf of bread? The Treasury started loading up on the new currency, which bore the image of the nation’s fearless leader, who now ruled constantly by decree, scarcely consulting the legislature for anything.

I’m talking, of course, about the history of Germany in the days of Hitler’s rise to power. Who on earth did you think I was talking about? The times back then, of course, quickly became much darker and more violent than anything we’ve seen today, but the pattern of events is an exact match, though the intensity is less. Even then, the days were not known to be anywhere near as dark as they eventually came to be known. They darkened like the setting sun. The more that was tolerated, the more the great leader pushed the boundaries. You boil frogs by slowly raising the temperature of the water.

While the present is nowhere near as violent as Hitler was, the nation is growing more violent in its enforcement every month both internally and externally. It is recreating the Department of Defense as the War Department, and making clear that generals should not consider their role to be “defense.” It is upping the amplitude of the warrior mentality.

While the pattern of events, though not the intensity, perfectly matches the kinds of events of the past, history never exactly repeats as though going around and around a closed circle. Instead, it loops back around like the spiral of a spiral notebook, never perfectly closing with the past loop, but moving forward along a line or progress with each new loop.

Few there were among the good German people who could see the darkness that was gathering until it had swallowed their consciences whole; and if anyone did see it and tried to tell the rest what was happening around them, they were considered deranged for believing such wild and vile things.

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