It Could Happen Here

How often throughout our history

When it was growing clear

That danger approached did people say

"It couldn't happen here"?

 

Could Russians imagine atrocities

That Stalin would engineer?

How many of them might have thought

"It couldn't happen here"?

 

When Hitler's concentration camps

Started to appear,

How many Germans also insisted

"It couldn't happen here"?

 

Chairman Mao had policies

So vile, cruel and severe

That millions died. How many had said

"It couldn't happen here"?

 

Pol Pot with his Killing Fields

Caused millions to shed a tear.

Had Cambodians also thought

"It couldn't happen here"?

 

Complacency is dangerous

When there are reasons to fear

That tyranny is possible,

For it could happen here!

 

-by Bob B (10-29-24)