I’ve been thinking about that powerful scene in Cabaret where a beautiful young man stands up and starts to sing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”. At first it all seems so lovely, so pure.
But as the song gathers momentum, we begin to see the true nature of what is going on. By the end, nearly everyone in the scene has been swept up by the excitement of the Nazi movement.
You can tell that a worked up citizenry are ready to round up the “undesirables” and throw them into internment camps, to make it illegal for anyone to be gay, for the government to go after its political critics without restraint, and so much more.
Then I found myself thinking about those little red hats that some people have been wearing in this country. And it occurred to me that there really is no difference — it’s exactly the same thought.
The four letters on those hats might as well be TBTM.