Some Kind of Gestapo

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Some Kind of Gestapo

Democrats, with the help of many Republicans, appear to be falling back on “some kind of Gestapo,” and let’s not credit it with being directed humanely.

By Jay Whig
January 11, 2021

She warned him not to include it in his speech. The language would be seen as an incendiary attack on the institutions of the nation.

But he was stubborn and felt his instincts, which had been right when so many others’ had been wrong, were true.

So Winston Churchill, on June 4, 1945, ignored the importuning of his wife, Clementine, and harshly criticized the Labour and Socialist parties of the United Kingdom in a campaign speech. 

No Socialist Government conducting entirely the life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.  And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil.

The effect of the speech was as devastating as a hand grenade, dropped at one’s own feet. The disgust of the British public at the comparison of domestic political parties to the just-defeated Nazi enemy swelled.

Not only that, the policies of mass organization and suppression of speech required by socialism were similar to the policies of wartime Britain. The British people were accustomed to them, and they wanted the fruits Clement Attlee’s socialism promised.

One month later, on July 5, 1945, the British people voted Winston Churchill and his Conservative Party out of office, giving the Last Lion a bare 36 percent of the popular vote. 

After the election, Clementine sought to console Churchill saying, “Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise.” Churchill retorted, “At the moment, it seems very well disguised.”

What Churchill had said was true. And he had paid a heavy political price for it. 

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While defeated and much destroyed Germany and Japan embarked on a path to kickstart their economies post-war by freeing their industries, GB decided to socialize just about everything.
Germany and Japan experienced dynamite economic recoveries and became world economic leaders inside twenty years. Socialists and unions strangled the UK until Thatcher got into office.

[dfwgator]

Some Kind of Gestapo

Democrats, with the help of many Republicans, appear to be falling back on “some kind of Gestapo,” and let’s not credit it with being directed humanely.

By Jay Whig
January 11, 2021

She warned him not to include it in his speech. The language would be seen as an incendiary attack on the institutions of the nation.

But he was stubborn and felt his instincts, which had been right when so many others’ had been wrong, were true.

So Winston Churchill, on June 4, 1945, ignored the importuning of his wife, Clementine, and harshly criticized the Labour and Socialist parties of the United Kingdom in a campaign speech. 

The effect of the speech was as devastating as a hand grenade, dropped at one’s own feet. The disgust of the British public at the comparison of domestic political parties to the just-defeated Nazi enemy swelled.

Not only that, the policies of mass organization and suppression of speech required by socialism were similar to the policies of wartime Britain. The British people were accustomed to them, and they wanted the fruits Clement Attlee’s socialism promised.

One month later, on July 5, 1945, the British people voted Winston Churchill and his Conservative Party out of office, giving the Last Lion a bare 36 percent of the popular vote. 

After the election, Clementine sought to console Churchill saying, “Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise.” Churchill retorted, “At the moment, it seems very well disguised.”

What Churchill had said was true. And he had paid a heavy political price for it. 

more
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/11/some-kind-of-gestapo/

Did it bother to mention that 5 years later Churchill returned to 10 Downing Street and served until 1955.