Hitler's Nero Decree
The Russians are a formidable opponent. During WWII they fought their guts out against Hitler. His decision to invade Russia was a huge mistake. It led to the downfall of his military.
In 1945, Hitler was trapped in his bunker, with his advisors telling him it was over. Apparently, while he was thinking about committing suicide, word came that Mussolini and his girlfriend were executed and hung up at the gas station, with their bodies being spat upon and urinated on by angry citizens. This appalled Hitler so much that he ordered his body and Eva's body to be immediately burned after they killed themselves.
Before he did all that, however, he ordered the German infrastructure to be destroyed. This was nicknamed the Nero Decree, after that guy fiddled while Rome burned. (Hitler had used this tactic before in France, but that order was disobeyed.) Hitler was trying to imitate the Russian style of fighting that once saved them by destroying supplies while they retreated. This disrupted supply lines for the enemy.
Hitler did this (tried to) despite the fact that the German population would need all that in order to survive past the war. He told someone, who recorded it for history, that the remaining population was inferior and didn't deserve the preservation of their country. He said that all the good Germans were already dead.
But, fortunately, Speers did not obey the order, either. Hitler was a madman at that point, and others were already thinking ahead. Speers was tried at Nuremberg but did not hang because of his refusal of this order. Instead, he did 20 years in Spandau.
I am worried, like all of you, that Trump will successfully cheat to win. I do not think that he will win if we are dealt a fair hand and allowed to vote without interference. But, I doubt that. The question is, what will he do if he is not declared the winner?
Already, we have people planning for a civil war against US. All Trump has to do is say something. And we could see our own Nero Decree. Only, I would call it the Trump Decree, after the guy who chomped on cheeseburgers while our East Coast neighbors burned us out.
We have to vote in November. It is the vote of a lifetime. We cannot let Trump do this to us. He's a Hitler fan and might easily decide to force us to stay home. But, we can't. No amount of wishing it wasn't happening will make that materialize. We have to know how to vote, where to vote, and how to snake our way through any obstacle to get our vote in.
VOTE! It isn't too early to plan what you are going to do to vote for yourself and also to help your neighbor to vote. Wear your masks, put on your garbage bag if you are so inclined, and kick Trump and his regime to the curb. Share what you have, keep your country. VOTE!
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