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Jennifer Adams's avatar

Sick! Sick! Sick! And I was wondering why this felt like more than Casual GOP Race Bait Hate Mongering...

The more this Administration veers toward outright Nazism the less surprised I am.

No, nobody wants to see that. That is, Conservatives will insist that any such accusation is paranoia and out of line. But is it really?

If you think other people's suffering is funny. If you are OK with people being harmed. If you lean into brutality because "That's just the way things are," or because "Certain people deserve to be punished more harshly than others, even those whose only offence is illegal entry to work shit jobs for terrible pay," and if you see The Divine in Harming Innocent People." Hands Down, You Are a First-Class Whack-A-Do.

We use Nazis as exemplars of Modern-Day Barbarism because of what they said, what they did, how they turned their back on their own humanity as they questioned the humanity of others and gleefully shipped millions of their fellow citizens off to Extermination Camps. Accusing them of thievery as they stole their belongs, cut the hair from their heads and pulled teeth from their mouths to extract the gold fillings. NAZI's labelled, baited, shamed, tormented and destroyed those who stood up to them in one long scourge of Evil.

Totalitarian States Of Mind all follow the same patterns, and we are seeing them being played out in Real Time. Story after story. Figure after figure. Lie after Lie. Obfuscation. Denial. Back Room Deals. Damning the Media. Making Lists of Enemies. Draconian Punishments and the Societal Purge. A Purge that begins with the easiest and most obvious targets. Those who are here illegally. What do you bet it doesn't end there? What do you bet these "Old Timey" post cards and shared laughter at the intent would be popular with many in the MAGA Movement?

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Jane's avatar

There are a lot of psychologically damaged people out there. Some can pass as normal. Yikes. Have a pleasant 4th Mr Spivey. 😀

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