This is back from November 23, 2015, but WOW is this scary ...

[aggiesal]

The Dangers of Dismissing Donald Trump’s Hateful Rhetoric
By Michael Scherer.



“Funny” images like the one above are springing up all over the Internet. An examination of the parallels between Donald Trump’s rhetoric and well-documented warning signs for the German holocaust reveal too many disturbing similarities to dismiss.

Yesterday, I came across a 2012 BBC editorial that asks “how was it possible that a character as strange and personally inadequate as Hitler ever gained power in a sophisticated country at the heart of Europe, and was then loved by millions of people?” This is a question that has been reverberating within my mind more and more recently–but about someone other than Hitler. As I kept reading, I got chills:

His inability to debate was taken as strength of character and his refusal to make small talk was considered the mark of a “great man” who lived apart from the crowd…

…”The man gave off such a charisma that people believed whatever he said,” says Emil Klein, who heard Hitler speak in the 1920s…

…Not everyone felt this charismatic connection, you had to be predisposed to believe what Hitler was saying to experience it. Many people who heard Hitler speak at this time thought he was an idiot.

…”He shouted out really, really simple political ideas. I thought he wasn’t quite normal.”

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The Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicates a page of its website to early warning signs of the impending genocide–and with 20/20 hindsight, it is no surprise that there were many. ...
So what happened? People ignored the warning signs:

1. Territorial expansion: Germany invaded Austria and implemented anti-Jewish legislation
He wants to expand our country’s influence abroad, violently, by “bombing the shit out of Syria.”

2. Discrimination spreads: Following Germany’s lead, other countries implemented discrimination against Jewish people
He attributes ISIL’s violence to all Muslims and thinks Muslim Americans should be forced to carry federally issued ID cards and be entered into a national database. NBC reporter asked him how this would be different from the Nazi Jewish registration process, the best answer he could give was “you tell me.”

3. Refusal to accept immigrants: The U.S., along with many other countries, expressed sympathy for the Jewish people of Europe but refused to accept refugees (with the exception of the Dominican Republic)
He wants to deny innocent refugees from that country (Syria)

4. Systematic persecution: The Nazi party opened the first concentration camp

5. Legal discrimination: Jewish people were required to adopt Jewish names and register them federally

6. Forced emigration: Germany and Austria forced Jewish citizens from their countries, requiring everyone who left to pay a fee and surrender property
Aggiesal - We now know that the Trump Administration has deported immigrants seeking asylum here in the US.

7. Neighboring nations surrendered and allowed German laws to spread across Europe

8. Targeted violence: The German government burned synagogues and homes, and Jewish people were arrested and killed by federal forces
Aggiesal -Maybe not government forces, but how many synagogues have been burned or been gun attacked since 2017?"

9. Economic exclusion: Germany prohibited Jewish people from owning and operating businesses

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https://artistlike.org/2015/11/23/the-dangers-of-dismissing-donald-trumps-hateful-rhetoric/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. 6. Forced emigration:

There was talk of Miller/ICE plans to deport green card holders, on the excuse that the forms people filled out years ago to get the cards are now "outdated" .

I've since found that idea being discussed again.

His insistence on very tough border crossings can both keep people out and keep people in.

and, mark this. The next group to occupy trump's camps will be the homeless.

[pansypoo53219]

2. homorless moron. laugh at him.