One of his heads appeared to have been wounded, but its wound had been healed. The whole world then became fascinated with the Beast, and gave their allegiance to him.
And they worshiped the serpent, for giving such power to him, as they also worshiped the Beast. ‘Who is as great as the Beast?’ they shouted. ‘And who is able to resist him?’ And the Beast was allowed to speak proud boasts and words offensive to God, and was given authority and power for forty-two months.
You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined. Suddenly it all comes to be, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done.
For that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.
Americans think living in a socialist police state is normal, but freedom is not some textbook theory.
There are still some Americans alive today who will tell you that freedom is better.