My readers have been waiting for this. Can’t sit back while our country goes to hell.

So guess who this is?

“The really and great damage that the fascism has done, or has revealed, is the moral lowness in which we have fallen after the war and the revolutionary over-excitation of the last few years.

It is incredible the insult made to the liberty, to the life, to the dignity of human beings, by other human beings. And it is humiliating, for he who feels the common humanity that ties together all the men, good and bad, to think that all the committed infamies have not produced in the crowd an adequate sense of rebellion, of horrors, of disgust. It is humiliating to human beings, the possibility of such ferocity, of such cowardness. It is humiliating that men, who have achieved power only because, deprived of any moral or intellectual scruples, they had known how to pluck the good moment to blackmail the middle class, may find the approbation, no matter if by a momentary aberration, of a number of persons sufficient to impose upon all countries their tyranny.

Therefore, the rescue expected and invocated by us must be, before all, a moral rescue; the re-valuation of human liberty and dignity. It must be the condemnation of the fascismo not only as a political and economic fact, but also and overall, as a criminal phenomenon, as the exploitation of a purulent growth which had been growing, forming and ripening itself in the sick body of the social organism.”

Don’t know? Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Yes, that Vanzetti.

Even Mephistopheles has his moments, y’know? Soundtrack for the read, given the waves breaking in America right now. Rip the bandaid off, before it’s too late, ‘cause otherwise we’re not getting out alive.