Listening to the soothing words of our president as America saunters toward debt- and welfare-state-induced collapse, I recalled a passage from Corrie ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place.”
It was early in World War II. The prime minister of the Netherlands, where the ten Boom family would spend the coming years hiding Jews in their home, addressed the nation by radio. He gave assurances that Germany would not attack and that Holland would be able to stay out of the war.
Corrie ten Boom’s father turned off the radio.
“It is wrong to give people hope when there is no hope …,” he said. “The Germans will attack and we will fall.”
A few hours after the prime minister spoke, bombs were raining across Holland. The country fell in five days.