The Nazification Of America

• The White House occupant is an ultra-divisive racist, fascist, authoritarian con man.
• He gives fawning support to other fascist authoritarians while making enemies of our oldest, closest and most democratic allies.
• He constantly stokes anger and fear of "the other," and sells bigotry of every kind.
• He's called for the suspension of due process and the elimination of judges.
• His policy is for ethnic groups to be rounded up by security police, then transported hundreds of miles to detention camps, tent cities and military bases.
• Under him, government agencies and regulations designed to protect the public have been gutted and cast aside.
• For his benefit, Fox News has effectively become State TV, Trump TV, actively working on his behalf spreading his lies and propaganda.
• He's called all other media "the enemy of the people."
• Like Mussolini and Hitler before him, he holds no press conferences.  Instead he conducts frequent rallies for his supporters, the purpose of which is to glorify himself and denigrate all who oppose him.
• He once kept a collection of Hitler's speeches on his bedside table.
• Rigged by Mitch McConnell, the Supreme Court has become illegitimate and is no longer an impartial arbiter.  The majority Justices are now ideological partisans doing the bidding of their deep-pocketed patrons.  With Anthony Kennedy's retirement, the situation will only get worse.
• The majority political party acquiesces, sheep-like, to their leader's loathsome whims, valuing job preservation over all else.

Prescient cartoon from 2015

Our current events should strike many familiar historical notes.  We are witnessing the Nazification of America, right now, right before our eyes.  Far too many of us are silent.  We're in a fight for the soul of America and our future is in doubt.  They tell us to calm down and "be civil," which is merely code for "be docile."  Fuck that!  It's time to pick a side, so choose wisely.

The best result would be to unmistakably reject Trump's fascism at the ballot box and take back control of Congress and the White House.  The next best outcome would be for Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller to nail his ass to the wall for his collusion, obstruction of justice and his many other crimes.

Failing those two options . . . , well, other measures would need to be considered.

In the 1930's and 1940's, millions of Europeans fled from fascist-occupied areas, leaving their homes behind for the hope of sanctuary in some better place.

Could we today see a spike in the number of American expatriates leaving the U.S. to live elsewhere?  If Trump continues to turn our country into a shithole, we just might.

#Resist
#FDT

From a 1934 NY Times article about a Quaker leader urging civility toward Nazis:




A group of rabbis saw it differently:






Resist evil or go along with it.  Learn from history or repeat it!