I just saw today a Facebook post by a valued colleague encouraging people to take the high road with political commentary and memes, implying that such things are beneath people of good will. While the sentiment is worthy and I respect his desire to have charity, the danger is also real – much more real than most people are willing to admit.

Germany happened just as much because of apathy as it did because of active malice. When I have returned to the dust, I want my posterity to know what I stood for and what I did to resist evil. If America devolves into a fascist autocracy, it will not be because I did nothing and said nothing.

This article from 20 October 1974, saved by the Maryland State Archives during the height of the Watergate era, is powerfully revelatory; today’s political situation makes Watergate look like a Romper Room picnic.

“The culprit is apathy. Few people will ever commit themselves. They aren’t for or against anything. They just remain indifferent. Most German people were not Nazis because of their convictions, but because they had none. They did not help Hitler, they just let him happen.” – Dr. Hilgunt Zazzenhaus

The memes may be, on some level, mean-spirited. But the target of those memes – Donald J. Trump and the MAGA cult who either worships the ground he walks on or who view him as a useful idiot for the furthering of their own ends, specifically power and influence, are more mean-spirited and cruel and destructive than the political statements.

If you care about America’s future, vote all Republicans out, everywhere, at all ballot levels, from now until the heat death of the universe.

The Old Wolf has spoken, and is not ashamed.