And They Thought It Couldn’t Happen Here
- R. T. Tippett
- Mar 29, 2011
- 14 min read
Updated: Jun 14
Let me first make a disclaimer. The first half of this article can come across as an accusatory rant, where I seem to have no blame in the topic whatsoever, while everyone else does. Let me make it clear that is the wrong impression to come away with. In this article I address “you.” This has to be seen as the second person “you,” a personal, friend-to-friend “you,” and not the third person, “you,” an “I don’t know you” “you.” It means “you” reading this article, and as as I read this article too, it is me referring to me in the second person. If you can understand how everyone in the whole wide world is in danger, then “you” might be able to understand how “you” cannot absolve yourself from ignoring that danger. This is because the danger that involves everyone involves “you,” and that includes me too. Because I care for “you,” I talk to “you” in the second person.





