Hate, Hate, and More Hate: No End in Sight

Is the road to Hell is not paved with good intentions? No, it’s paved with hate disguised as righteousness. Get ready for your weekly dose of depression pills. However, there is hope to be found.

Let’s have a short look-see of the past couple of weeks:

In Bremen last week, a group of some 30 masked counter-protesters tried to rush an Alternative für Deutschland info booth.

Earlier this week, a shopkeeper posted a note in his shop window: “JEWS are banned from these premises!!!! Nothing personal, and not antisemitism either—I just can’t stand you.”

This Thursday, September 18, a 44-year-old threatened people with a knife and shouted: “Heil Hitler”.

This might have caught your eye in the morning news, but none of this is really new—and that’s the problem.

The temptation is always the same: if they are monsters, then punching first is justice. That logic ends with mobs deciding guilt and democracies bleeding out. In Germany, we tried it in the Weimar years: party militias outnumbered the police, courts looked away, politicians were murdered—and street rule beat state rule. We know how that story ends.

Let me set the scene for you with a personal anecdote. A few years back I met a person, who had gotten himself arrested for physical attacks on people he and his group deemed neo-Nazis. I asked him how he knew they were Nazis. I found his answer chilling: