On the road to another global conflict?

This week Trump follower and Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) pushed forward two of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks despite a Democratic boycott.  The rules require at least one member of the minority party to be present for the committee to vote on a nominee. But Hatch suspended the rules, allowing him to go around that requirement.

In Berlin, Germany on 21 March 1933, the new Reichstag was constituted.  To achieve full political control despite not having an absolute majority in parliament, Hitler's government brought the Ermächtigungsgesetz (Enabling Act) to a vote in the newly elected Reichstag (German Parliament). The Act gave Hitler's cabinet the power to enact laws without the consent of the Reichstag for four years. 

Between 1933 and September 1 1939 when WW2 ‘officially’ kicked-off; Western Nations, particularly Great Britain had ample opportunities to push back on Hitler but, like UK Prime Minister Theresa May is doing now, chose the consolatory route rather than stand up to the fascist.  Happily paving the road to 25 million WW2 deaths with the ‘good intentions’.

The time to act is now, not when you hear the jack-boots on the stairs.