History largely records that the rise of Nazism and the subsequent slaughter of over six million Jews in post World War One Germany was primarily the vision and the work of a single evil man, Adolf Hitler. Yet in actuality that was not the case for Hitler, though indeed a dictator, did not act alone. He had help, lots of help, in the form of first a movement, and then a political party, which rose to prominence catering to peoples fears, paranoia, and insecurities. It exploited human weakness so as to acquire political power and in so doing divided a nation's citizens among themselves and in the process created a horrific, murderous monster among the nation's of the world; triggering a global cataclysm that ended the lives of well over 200 million people across the globe .
We here in the United States smugly feel that we are immune to the rise of such an evil political force that was Germany's Nazi Party of the late 1920's and early 1930's. We assume that are too enlightened, our Constitution too secure, and our love of Liberty too great to allow something similar to happen here. These assumptions are wrong for not only can it happen here, it has happened here. It has been happening for the past fifty years and it is happening now. It is happening through the Republican Party.
For in today's Republican Party we the rise of the New Nazism. In its platforms, its polices, its appeals to racism, sexism, religious intolerance, its homophobia, its seeking to divide Americans along the lines of race, gender, rich, poor, Christian, non Christian, gay and straight, we are bearing living witness to Hitler's ghost arise anew. We are seeing in its catering to the Far Right, the Tea & Libertarian Parties, the Roar of the Nazis of Germany's evil past.
People forget that post World War One Germany was a Democratic Republic and not a dictatorship. Hitler did not first assume power by fiat. He had to first be elected to something. He had to get people to vote for him at first. He had to win office and it was only after he and his party had won political office that he and his minions were able to assume absolute power. Well how did he do this? Why he created scapegoats out of the Jews and proclaimed that everyone who was white, Christian and "pure" German was part of a Master Race and unfortunately for the world enough gullible and insecure people bought into this appeal to give the man & his political party supreme power and set in motion a policy of global conquest and human extermination that made the term Nazism the obscenity of the world.
So it is not lightly that I accuse today's Republican Party and modern Right Wing extremism of being the embodiment of the New Nazism but if you listen to its rhetoric and grasp its policies then what other logical conclusion can possibly be drawn? If you listen carefully, you will not only hear echoes of the Nazis in the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannitty, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Speaker John Boehner, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Governor Scott Walker, Ron & Rand Paul, Michelle Bachman, etc., you will in many cases hear the same exact words the Nazis used too and you will feel the heat of people's fears and insecurities bubbling to the surface.
Just the other day a national poll revealed that over 40% of Republicans in this country believe that an armed insurrection and a violent overthrowing of our current government will probably be necessary in order to address their grievances and what are those grievances you may ask? What are these "grievances" that make over 40% of Republicans feel that America is overdue for another armed revolution? Well you can start with the fact that America now has an African American president. You can also point out that the face of America is finally diversified; a true reflection of not only what America really is but what it has always said it is.
If you want to another reason for this call to arms by the Republican Party, think of the GOP's attacks on businessman & philanthropist George Soros. Aside from his contributing to Democratic causes what are his chief crimes in the eyes of the Republican Party and the Far Right? Why the fact that Mr. Soros happens to be Jewish and has lots of money. Everywhere you turn you hear Republicans complaining about how Jews like George Soros are trying to hoard all the money in this ; that they are this and they are that. You never hear them refer to the Koch Brothers religion in the same way they refer to Soros' religion do you and last time I checked the Koch Brothers have money and plenty of it? By the same token the Nazis didn't complain about the wealthy Christians who were Germans; on those those wealthy German's who happened to be Jewish. See the similarity? You better because it is right in front of us. The Republican Party is catering to anti-semitism just like the Nazis did and with similar effect.
You see the Nazis were all about us versus them, just like the Republican Party is today. The Nazis started off by stripping Jews of their right to vote, confiscating their property, and denying them their basic human rights so as relegate them to second class citizenship; just like the Republican Party is attempting to do to African Americans, women, and gays today.
In speaking out against racial segregation and warning against the Republican Party and it's Far Right base attempts to return America to those dark days, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said "just remember that everything Hitler and the Nazis did in Germany was legal too." Don't think for a minute that if the Republican Party and its Far Right minions regain control of this country that concentration camps won't spring up here! Don't think that slavery and Judge Lynch won't return and that women will lose all rights in this country save for the "right" to be barefoot, pregnant, and confined to the kitchen!
Don't think this can't and won't happen here America because it can and it will if we foolishly assume that it cannot! The New Nazism is here! The New Nazism is embodied the Republican Party itself for everything the Nazis did to first acquire power in Germany in the early 1930 the GOP is doing in an attempt to acquire permanent power in the United States of today! The damning of those who are different, the constant scapegoating and lies, the questioning of the patriotism of those who do not follow their lead,; this is exactly what the Nazis did.
So wake up to this reality before it is too late and before a spell binding Hitler in the form of a Rand Paul, Glenn Beck, or Rick Scott, really does manage to grasp the reigns of national power and create an American Holocaust that will make Hitler's ghost dance with glee for history who's lessons is ignored is history that is always bound to be repeated.
We here in the United States smugly feel that we are immune to the rise of such an evil political force that was Germany's Nazi Party of the late 1920's and early 1930's. We assume that are too enlightened, our Constitution too secure, and our love of Liberty too great to allow something similar to happen here. These assumptions are wrong for not only can it happen here, it has happened here. It has been happening for the past fifty years and it is happening now. It is happening through the Republican Party.
For in today's Republican Party we the rise of the New Nazism. In its platforms, its polices, its appeals to racism, sexism, religious intolerance, its homophobia, its seeking to divide Americans along the lines of race, gender, rich, poor, Christian, non Christian, gay and straight, we are bearing living witness to Hitler's ghost arise anew. We are seeing in its catering to the Far Right, the Tea & Libertarian Parties, the Roar of the Nazis of Germany's evil past.
People forget that post World War One Germany was a Democratic Republic and not a dictatorship. Hitler did not first assume power by fiat. He had to first be elected to something. He had to get people to vote for him at first. He had to win office and it was only after he and his party had won political office that he and his minions were able to assume absolute power. Well how did he do this? Why he created scapegoats out of the Jews and proclaimed that everyone who was white, Christian and "pure" German was part of a Master Race and unfortunately for the world enough gullible and insecure people bought into this appeal to give the man & his political party supreme power and set in motion a policy of global conquest and human extermination that made the term Nazism the obscenity of the world.
So it is not lightly that I accuse today's Republican Party and modern Right Wing extremism of being the embodiment of the New Nazism but if you listen to its rhetoric and grasp its policies then what other logical conclusion can possibly be drawn? If you listen carefully, you will not only hear echoes of the Nazis in the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannitty, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Speaker John Boehner, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Governor Scott Walker, Ron & Rand Paul, Michelle Bachman, etc., you will in many cases hear the same exact words the Nazis used too and you will feel the heat of people's fears and insecurities bubbling to the surface.
Just the other day a national poll revealed that over 40% of Republicans in this country believe that an armed insurrection and a violent overthrowing of our current government will probably be necessary in order to address their grievances and what are those grievances you may ask? What are these "grievances" that make over 40% of Republicans feel that America is overdue for another armed revolution? Well you can start with the fact that America now has an African American president. You can also point out that the face of America is finally diversified; a true reflection of not only what America really is but what it has always said it is.
If you want to another reason for this call to arms by the Republican Party, think of the GOP's attacks on businessman & philanthropist George Soros. Aside from his contributing to Democratic causes what are his chief crimes in the eyes of the Republican Party and the Far Right? Why the fact that Mr. Soros happens to be Jewish and has lots of money. Everywhere you turn you hear Republicans complaining about how Jews like George Soros are trying to hoard all the money in this ; that they are this and they are that. You never hear them refer to the Koch Brothers religion in the same way they refer to Soros' religion do you and last time I checked the Koch Brothers have money and plenty of it? By the same token the Nazis didn't complain about the wealthy Christians who were Germans; on those those wealthy German's who happened to be Jewish. See the similarity? You better because it is right in front of us. The Republican Party is catering to anti-semitism just like the Nazis did and with similar effect.
You see the Nazis were all about us versus them, just like the Republican Party is today. The Nazis started off by stripping Jews of their right to vote, confiscating their property, and denying them their basic human rights so as relegate them to second class citizenship; just like the Republican Party is attempting to do to African Americans, women, and gays today.
In speaking out against racial segregation and warning against the Republican Party and it's Far Right base attempts to return America to those dark days, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said "just remember that everything Hitler and the Nazis did in Germany was legal too." Don't think for a minute that if the Republican Party and its Far Right minions regain control of this country that concentration camps won't spring up here! Don't think that slavery and Judge Lynch won't return and that women will lose all rights in this country save for the "right" to be barefoot, pregnant, and confined to the kitchen!
Don't think this can't and won't happen here America because it can and it will if we foolishly assume that it cannot! The New Nazism is here! The New Nazism is embodied the Republican Party itself for everything the Nazis did to first acquire power in Germany in the early 1930 the GOP is doing in an attempt to acquire permanent power in the United States of today! The damning of those who are different, the constant scapegoating and lies, the questioning of the patriotism of those who do not follow their lead,; this is exactly what the Nazis did.
So wake up to this reality before it is too late and before a spell binding Hitler in the form of a Rand Paul, Glenn Beck, or Rick Scott, really does manage to grasp the reigns of national power and create an American Holocaust that will make Hitler's ghost dance with glee for history who's lessons is ignored is history that is always bound to be repeated.
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