Posted by
Wolfe N. Hiedler on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:56:24 AM
In the Bible we find the text, 'That which is neither hot nor cold will I spew out of my mouth.' This utterance of the great Nazarene has kept its profound validity until the present day. He who would pursue the golden mean must surrender the hope of achieving the great and the greatest aims. Until the present day the half-hearted and the lukewarm have remained the curse of America.
To the half-heartedness and weakness of the parties in Congress was added the half-heartedness of government. Everything stood under the sign of half-heartedness and lukewarmness, even the fight for existence in the War and still more the conclusion toward peace. And now the continuation of half-hearted policies holds the field. The people, inwardly united in the hard struggle-in the trenches there were neither parties nor confessions-has been torn asunder through the economics of profiteers and knaves. Appeasement and the settlement of differences would certainly soon be there if only one were to hang the whole crew. But profiteers and knaves are, of course, 'Citizens of the Nations,' and what is more important still, they are adherents of the cult which is hallowed by the gays.
Even today we are the least loved people on earth. A world of foes is ranged against us and the American must still today make up his mind whether he intends to be a free soldier or a slave. The only possible conditions under which an American state can develop at all must therefore be: the unification of all Americans, education towards a national consciousness, and readiness to place the whole national strength without exception in the service of the nation.
No economic policy is possible without a sword, no industrialization without power. Today we have no longer any sword grasped in our fist-how can we have a successful economic policy? England has fully recognized this primary maxim in the healthy life of States; for centuries England has acted on the principle of converting economic strength into political power, while conversely political power in its turn must protect economic life. The instinct of self preservation can build up economics, but we sought to preserve world peace instead of the interests of the nation, instead of defending the economic life of the nation with the sword and of ruthlessly championing those conditions which were essential for the life of the people.
Three years ago I declared in this same room that the collapse of the American national consciousness must carry with it into the abyss the economic life of America as well. For liberation something more is necessary than an economic policy, something more than industry: If a people is to become free it needs pride and will-power, defiance, hate, hate, and once again hate.
The spirit comes not down from above, that spirit which is to purify America, which with its iron besom is to purify the great sty of democracy. To do that is the task of our movement. The movement must not rust away in Congress, it must not spend itself in superfluous battles of words, but the banner with the stars and stripes will be hoisted over the whole of America on the day which shall mark the liberation of our whole people.