The Nazi Moment
“To be honest, if it weren’t for this bomb, I wouldn’t be alive today,” casually explained my liberal friend why America had to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Wiping out 100.000’s of Japanese for my friend was rationalized; it was necessary so he may have gone to fight at the Pacific and died. My friend is a liberal, a good American, a humanist, an educated, well-traveled, and is toned to world affairs. support BLM and Me Too ” movements, environmentalists, and rally against wars in the middle east. “when it comes to dropping the big one, my liberal friend had what I call a temporary Nazi moment. It is a moment of a liquid morality, intellectual paralysis, and rationalizing an evil act. The Nazi moment for right-wing conservatives is an ideology that they live by; Trump’s election was a Nazi moment that lasted four years; Derek Chauvin pinning Mr. Floyd’s neck to the ground was a Nazi moment that lasted nine minutes. For liberals, the Nazi moment surfaces involuntarily when they face the slightest challenge or a threat,
