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I am currently watching the entire World at War documentary series. It is a masterful work of profound importance - perhaps more so now. The humility of the interviewees is striking. They know they went through absolute hell and were lucky to survive. Some other thoughts ...
To compare Brexit to WW2 in any way at all is to utterly demean the experiences of those who actually lived through WW2, which was an existential battle for survival against a foe that offered nothing but subjugation, misery and murder. There was no choice but to fight ...
Those who fought did not wish the war on themselves. They did not have the option of compromise or he chance to change their minds. They fought because they had to. It was genuinely heroic because there was no other choice. They were up against genuine evil ...
That is why they endured what they endured. That is why they made the sacrifices they did. The alternative was not pooling sovereignty with a group of other countries that think pretty much the same, it was conquest and enslavement ...
How dare anyone co-opt that heroism, that courage, that sacrifice, that suffering to score political points about a state of affairs we chose to inflict upon ourselves, having ignored all warnings as to the consequences. It is insulting beyond words to our greatest generation.
