Bad judgment is often a consequence of bad character, at least among those in administrative, political, economic, and military elites who should know better. I once had a thread on the top movies and songs of any given day, and as it turns out the top movie on Pearl Harbor Day in America was this:
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Yes, it is a comedy, but comedy, even if by such people as the team of Abbott and Costello, can serve to get a point across. If the fascists had understood that this was the sort of fare Americans were treating as entertainment, then they would have been scared of provoking the USA. (It still holds up well as entertainment). The studio bosses in Hollywood knew what they were doing. Mostly Jews, you can imagine what they would have done to destroy the Haman of the 20th Century.
German, Italian, and Japanese thug rulers had an outdated image of America from 3T patterns of behavior, to put it mildly. The playboy of the 1920's had lost his role. Americans might not have had the propagandistic regimentation of the Hitlerjugend, Balilla, or Yokusan Sonendan that turned small children into little warriors loyal to the Leader above all else, but such is unnecessary.
On the other hand, had they not been the brutal thugs that they were, then they might have steered clear of aggressive warfare that eventually turned against them.
Yes, it is a comedy, but comedy, even if by such people as the team of Abbott and Costello, can serve to get a point across. If the fascists had understood that this was the sort of fare Americans were treating as entertainment, then they would have been scared of provoking the USA. (It still holds up well as entertainment). The studio bosses in Hollywood knew what they were doing. Mostly Jews, you can imagine what they would have done to destroy the Haman of the 20th Century.
German, Italian, and Japanese thug rulers had an outdated image of America from 3T patterns of behavior, to put it mildly. The playboy of the 1920's had lost his role. Americans might not have had the propagandistic regimentation of the Hitlerjugend, Balilla, or Yokusan Sonendan that turned small children into little warriors loyal to the Leader above all else, but such is unnecessary.
On the other hand, had they not been the brutal thugs that they were, then they might have steered clear of aggressive warfare that eventually turned against them.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
