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In reply to the discussion: Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding [View all]PatrickforB
(15,329 posts)It cost this planet upwards of 60 - 80 million lives to get rid of Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese Empire. My father fought these people in the Second World War.
Auschwitz was a death factory. Sobibor, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen all gassed people to death.
So you know what? If you are anything but a white male Protestant you are likely on somebody's list. If you are gay, trans, Jewish, or a member of a racial or ethnic minority, or if you are a woman, then you are second class.
Look at what is happening. We had these Nazis marching with their tiki torches through the streets of Charlottesville chanting 'we will not be replaced' and now organizations like CPAC and others are inviting these white nationalists as speakers. They aren't even trying to hide it. We are now seeing swastikas and other Nazi symbols (and yes, I am aware the swastika is far older and more venerable that Hitler's hakenkreuz was a backwards take on this older symbol) with these losers.
Consider Republican legislatures in a number of states have been trying to suppress votes, and even to allow gun toting 'Murikans to terrorize people at polling places.
Be mindful, if you remember your undergrad poly sci classes, that an oligarchy coupled with a nationalist (theocracy) is essentially a fascist, or Nazi, type of government, and this is what many of the libertarian-leaning Republicans want, particularly the billionaire parasites like the Mercers, Kochs and others.
Reps Gosar and Greene appeared as guests last year at the America First Political Action Conference, along with other Republican officials.
And consider the right-wing 'evangelicals' - these people HATE everyone who is not white and Christian, and seem to think that women should be relegated to the kitchen as second class citizens. And their corporate-funded Federalist Society think-tank grooms new right-wing 'justices.' We've already seen how that is working out.
Honestly, if these people turn this country into an authoritarian 'white Christian' nation, you think they wouldn't set up death camps?
Really?