Hermann Goering sums up Western politics

This blog is beginning to lose focus a little and has become a political sounding board, rather than the digital marketing and photography blog that it was intended to be! However, I couldn’t resist posting this quote from Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich Marshall. He is attributed with saying it privately to someone during the Nuremberg Trials – it was never part of the official trial transcripts:

“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

It certainly appears to have worked in Britain and America over the past ten years or so. It’s funny to think that our leaders are taking lessons from some of the worst criminals in history.