If Republicans Don't Want to be Compared to Nazis

Garden City ID

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If Republicans Don't Want to be Compared to Nazis, They Should Stop Acting Like Nazis. We have witnessed a great deal of conservative madness over the past 4 years plus since Donald tRUMP was elected president of the United States. It is no accident that the Nazi cry of Germany for the Germans is echoed by the Republican cry of America for Americans. Once upon a time there were "real" Germans and our own time brought us "real" Americans - the obvious consequence of such claims being that everybody else was an interloper, inferior - the "other." With a single utterance, people like Sarah Palin, like Hitler before her, was able to delegitimize half of the population. The "other" become parasites attacking the health of the country. This is a claim made by both Nazis and the Religious Right. If somebody acts like a Nazi, we should certainly be able to point out that they are acting like a Nazi. Many of us saw this coming. We were laughed at. We warned people what the Religious Right wanted, what it intended. As with the Nazi Party in its early days, far too many people did not take the forces of oppression seriously. This tendency to deny unpleasant realities, even while they are occurring, is frustrating to say the least. It is dangerous at the worst: People will not fight back against something they cannot bring themselves to believe. Believe it. People used to talk about Nazi Germany in disbelief even after the fact. How could it happen? It could happen very easily. It had happened before in human history and there was no reason to believe it would not happen again. And again. It could happen here, too, if we are not vigilant. In state after Republican state, we are seeing what amounts to state-sanctioned violence against the other, from Stand Your Ground laws to Arizona's S.B. 1062. It is possible that the Tea Party and the Republican conservatives if they had their way probably wouldn't be as bad as the Nazis MAYBE, but the underlying psychology is similar. the Republican conservative Tea partier's and their Furher Donald tRUMP do the big Lie as the Nazis did they often do the big murder of people such as what George Bush did with the Iraq war, in which practically all Republicans supported] and they do the big take away our freedoms with the Patriot act and similar draconian laws against freedom of speech and assembly. God help us because those who support them don't realize it that they are of the nature of Nazis just like the German people didn't realize the nature of Hitler and the Nazis until it was too late.