You Wouldn't Make A Dog Suffer Like This

[Rev. Rye]

You know what this reminds me of?

There's a movie called Conspiracy. It's about the Wannsee Conference, that chapter of Nazi Germany where the Nazis finally made up their mind between killing the Jews and simply making their lives Hell after nine years in power.

In one scene, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger discovers that Reinhard Heydrich has announced that Hitler has finally decided to kill them, and he does not take it well. While many of the people there are visibly uncomfortable when Heydrich and Eichmann explain the details, and some people even object to the plans (largely for logistical reasons), Kritzinger is the only person there who has a moral objection to the plan.

But, of course, before we get too much on Kritzinger's side, Heydrich actually points out Kritzinger's hypocrisy, as he had actually gone along with literally everything else up until that point, at one point asking: "Well then, this is the moment to be... practical, until such time as Germany can afford your philosophy, which is what? Hound them, impoverish them, exploit them, imprison them - just do not _kill_ them, and you are God's noblest of men. I find that, uh, truly remarkable." It's a truly chilling speech, and what he desribes sounds a lot like the Republican agenda, put people in poverty, create policies that put an alarmingly high percentage of its citizens in prison, use people for whatever they see fit, and, apparently, it's all okay as long as they're alive to see all this.

That speech can be seen at over 5 minutes into this video, which contains the bulk of Kritzinger's best scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_ZlbADBXY