This Was Our Finest Hour ~ Eric Smith

The Republican Party is now where Nazi Germany was in December of 1944 and January of 1945. They have lost the war and its final defeat is imminent. Yet like the Nazi Germany of that time it has launched its own Battle of the Bulge and instituted a reign of terror upon the American people which is the political equivalent of those V-1 buzz bombs and V-2 rockets that the Germans unleashed against English towns and cities in those closing months of World War Two when the outcome had long since been decided.

Among the timid the current onslaught seems like the end of the world but in the end, once the smoke clears, we will see as the Allied troops in Europe and the stout citizens of England who crawled from the rubble of their freshly bombed cities and towns saw, that these last desperate fusillades from a lost cause are in the larger scheme of things in Shakespeare's words "full of sound and fury and signifying nothing."

What we are witnessing now is the Last Stand of the Republican Party and the roars we hear are the death rattles of Conservatism itself. Final victory is at hand. We can only lose at this point if we yank defeat from the jaws of victory ourselves and that can only happen if we give credence to that which is not credible; that the Republican Party and its racist reactionary agenda can yet prevail. 

It cannot and it will not. So let us continue to march as Patton marched. Let us march to the capital of Conservatism as Patton and the Soviets marched towards Berlin and as the allies blew up that huge Swastika on the top of the Reichstag, let us symbolically blow up that multicolored elephant that is the symbol of the Republican Party and which has come to represent to America and the world much of what that Swastika represents to this day; hate, racism, oppression, and intolerance.

This is our time, America's time, justice's time, full equality's time, and that being so let us finish the task of finally eradicating the evil that is the Republican Party and then celebrate a long and hard won victory over its forces of retrogress and oppression knowing that history will one day say of us as Churchill rightly predicted it would one day say of Britain back then that "this was our finest hour!"