Everyone knows that Adolph Hitler existed. No one disputes that.
The terror and destruction that this madman inflicted upon the world are universally recognized. Hitler came from a poor family which had absolutely no social position.
He was a high school drop-out and nobody ever accused him of being cultured.
Yet this man tried to conquer the world.
During his early career he sat in a cold garret and poured onto paper his ambitions to rule the world. We know that.
Similarly, we know that a man named Vladimir Ilich Lenin also existed. Like Hitler, Lenin did not spring from a family of social lions.
The son of a petty bureaucrat, Lenin, who spent most of his adult life in poverty, has been responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of your fellow human beings and the enslavement of nearly a billion more.
Like Hitler, Lenin sat up nights in a dank garret scheming how he could conquer the world. We know that too.
Is it not theoretically possible that a billionaire could be sitting, not in a garret, but in a penthouse, in Manhattan, London or Paris and dream the same dream as Lenin and Hitler?
You will have to admit it is theoretically possible.
Julius Caesar, a wealthy aristocrat, did. And such a man might form an alliance or association with other like-minded men, might he not? Caesar did.
These men would be superbly educated, command immense social prestige and be able to pool astonishing amounts of money to carry out their purposes.
These are advantages that Hitler and Lenin did not have.
It is difficult for the average individual to fathom such perverted lust for power.
The typical person, of whatever nationality, wants only to enjoy success in his job, to be able to afford a reasonably high standard of living complete with leisure and travel. He wants to provide for his family in sickness and in health and to give his children a sound education.
His ambition stops there. He has no desire to exercise power over others, to conquer other lands or peoples, to be a king. He wants to mind his own business and enjoy life.
Since he has no lust for power, it is difficult for him to imagine that there are others who have … others who march to a far different drum.
But we must realize that there have been Hitlers and Lenins and Stalins and Caesars and Alexander the Greats throughout history.
Why should we assume there are no such men today with perverted lusts for power?
And if these men happen to be billionaires is it not possible that they would use men like Hitler and Lenin as pawns to seize power for themselves?
