Monday, May 04, 2020

Always Vigilent

I recently had the experience of viewing the photos at the link below taken in the 1930's of German American Bund supporters of Adolph Hitler. Never think this could not happen again as it did happen in Charlottesville, North Carolina when 100 to 200 American Nazi supporters on August 11 and 12, 2017 carrying Tiki Torches marched and yelled "Jews will not replace us." They then proceeded on to kill a counter non-violent demonstrator Heather Heyer and two others who got caught up in the mayhem of that day. 

Our not so fine president said there were "fine people on both sides" there. Sorry, Mr. Trump, try as you might to give the extremist right an air of respectability there are zero fine people among American Nazis and none in the so called Alt Right movement either. These are people who think they died and went to heaven since Trump became president and called himself a Nationalist or in their parlance a White Nationalist. Finally, the extremist right can come out of hiding, lift up their heads high and with outstretch arms in Nazi salute yell "Heil Trump" as the president reaches into his bag of tricks trying desperately not to offend these violent extremist supporters of him.

The right is mean, it is cruel, it is uber violent, would think nothing of mowing down those who oppose Trump and most all for which he advocates.Trump has cast a spell upon those who comprise the right and his base by his hateful anti-immigrant, anti black, anti Hispanic, anti gay, anti women and antiscience rhetoric and policy. He will if we let him erase all the equality and progress minorities have fought so long and so hard to achieve since the nation was born. If elected in 2020 he will swing the Supreme Court to reactionary right for a generation and maybe more. I do not want an America to look like that.

My motto as a Jewish American is "ALWAYS VIGILANT!"

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