CIEMR: Are Germans bad people?
I do not think so. I lived in Germany for nearly six years and I found them to be warm, family oriented, wholesome and good people. I would say that I love them as a people. But once those good people came to be led by the Nationalist Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party which was led by Hitler, and their country weaponized and killed tens of millions of people in Europe and Asia and Africa.
Are the Chinese evil people? I do not think so. After all once brave Americans joined their forces to fight the Japanese with the Flying Tigers. Led by Major General Claire Lee Chennault they found the Chinese to be a good and very sacrificial people willing to do anything to help the Americans who were beating back the Japanese. But some years later a mao tse tung (I do not want to capitalize his name to give him any recognition whatsoever) led a communist uprising that overthrew the legal government of China which then fled to occupy Taiwan. Mao killed well in excess of 60,000,000 people. Lots of zeros there.
What about the Japanese? Bad people? I do not think so. I have a friend, who I roomed with in Kandahar who thought he was Japanese. Talk about being out of place, he was American born and is a small stature black man, but he lives in Tokyo, is married to a sweet Japanese girl, and just raves over the culture of the people there. His favorite sport? Sumo wrestling! Second favorite is Japanese baseball! From that friendship I learned just how good the Japanese people are. But in WW2, with the militant leadership they fell under they murdered and enslaved and plundered nearly half the planet.
We now have a war in the Ukraine. We report on the incredible loss of Russian Soldiers. Is that a good thing? I’m refereeing to dead Russians. In one context, yes when I juxtapose their losses over the fact that my boy is an Infantry soldier deployed there and may have to face them on a battlefield. But on the other hand, I feel for them. Every Russian soldier who died has a mom and a dad or a wife and possibly children. All of the latter just had their lives wrecked. Russians are good people, but they are led by a corrupt mafia like crime family who exercises extreme power over their very lives and now bends the will of a good people to go off and kill their neighbors.
None of these examples show where the people suddenly or over time “went bad.” However, in every example, some bad characters coopted the good people and turned their very nation into something very evil and dangerous.
Now in the United States we have progressives and socialists infiltrating all our institutions and we find a President Biden at our helm who, by his policies seems to hate Americans. So, I ask you, will a future writer like myself someday pose the question, Are Americans bad people?
