How fitting that the people will elect a Teutonic Knight in California.

[The Lone Liberal]

With the ouster of a duly elected Governor the Republicans undo one more stone in the bastion of democracy. Wealth triumphs once more in this nihilistic age of complacency. It is fitting that the king who shall snatch the will from the people is a Teutonic Knight. Sebastian Haffner in his book of unpublished papers, Defying Hitler writes of that time when it was too late for the German people to react against the Nazis.

“We were in the Nazis’ hands for good or ill. All lines of defense had fallen, any collective resistance had become impossible. Individual resistance was only a form of suicide. We were pursued into the farthest corners of our private lives; in all areas of life there was rout, panic and flight. No one could tell where it would end. At the same time we were called upon, not to surrender, but to renege. Just a little pact with the devil—and you were no longer one of the captured quarry. Instead you were one of the victorious hunters.”

When the wolves are amongst us, how soon will we liberals need to learn how to howl with the wolves?