Poor Little Nazi

I realize the title may be a little shocking, but bear with me - there's a point (I think).

In the old days you could always tell the bad guys in the movies - they usually wore black cowboy hats.
If that didn't work, you could just listen to the melodramatic background music; if it suddenly turned villainous - like to something akin to the Darth Vader music or the theme to "Jaws" - you knew there was a bad guy on the screen.

A couple years ago, I was endeavoring to teach AA how to appreciate cowboy movies. He became fairly astute in his recognition of "bad-guy" music.

These days its harder to figure out who the bad-guys are. Hollywood pretty much forgot how to manufacture any pure good-guys so every one is something of a bad-guy. I have noted that in newer movies, in order to firmly distinguish just who the villain of the picture is, he really has to do something heinous like bump off his own grandmother. . . . Or use plastic shopping bags and refuse to purchase those expensive government-mandated twisty light bulbs: that's almost as bad as bumping off one's grandmother.

In the haze of political correctness that now engulfs our current societal atmosphere, we can't even seem to have definable national enemies. When I was a kid, it was the Communists. Everyone knew Communism was bad. I even remember an unsettling skit being presented by my church youth group about the dangers of Communism; I had trouble sleeping that night.

Now, we can't say that Communists are bad - heck they make most of our kids toys!

All the old bad-guys have now somehow been absolved from all their badness. The only bad-guys now are the people who call others "bad-guys".

However, there is one group that has held to it's Bad-guy status for over half a century now, and that is the Nazi's.

Every other evil regime apparently passed through some sort of redemptive process and they are now acceptable - except for Nazi's. I wonder why? One might almost feel sorry for the poor little Nazis.

Now mind you, I have no compassion for Nazi's. But I don't think the evils of other murderous governments like Stalin, Idi Amin, and Ahmadinejad should be excused either. Why does the eternal albatross of badness always hang solely around the neck of the Nazis?

So it is not surprising these days that when Nancy Pelosi and her ilk want to call a citizen the worst name in the book - they always pull out the "Nazi" label. For liberals there are no other bad-guys.

Honestly, I am not interested in whitewashing Nazism or finding some way to make it socially acceptable. I just tire of all these other vice-ridden bad guys getting a free ride.

What if there suddenly emerged an army of "good-guys" - like the kind that used to wear white cowboy hats. What if suddenly people came to the forefront that observed the "Golden Rule" and told the truth no matter what? Suppose there were people that would suddenly stand up for the rights of little widow ladies and orphan kids; people that could still smile and blush.

I suspect that it would then be easy to tell who were the good guys and who were the bad-guys. We could judge them by their actions. . . .

. . . and we wouldn't even have to listen for the villainous music.