Many years ago, an alderman offered me some words of advice that I’ve been following ever since.
“Hitler was right.”
As criticism of her remarks poured in, Miller’s office tweeted out a clarification that was almost as outrageous as her initial comments: “Congresswoman Miller’s statement was a denunciation of evil dictators’ efforts to re-educate young people and similar efforts by left-wing radicals in our country today.”
In other words, own up to what you did or said that was wrong and stop acting like you’re the victim.
For instance, it’s a joke when Walter Sobchak—the John Goodman character in The Big Lebowski—unfavorably compares Nihilists to Nazis by declaring: “Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, dude, at least it’s an ethos.”
In her speech at the Moms for America rally, Congresswoman Miller went on to say: “Fill your children’s minds with what is true, and right, and noble. And then they can overcome evil with good. Because they can actually discern between what is evil and what is good.”
