Not Just Trump: Republicans Embrace Hitler’s Nazi Tactics to Target Muslims
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/20/trump-republicans-embrace-hitlers-nazi-tactics-target-muslims.html
Republicans are fond of boasting how exceptional America is, but honestly, being a structurally violent society, leading the world in child poverty and hunger, gun deaths, and spending more on bombs than infrastructure or citizens is not exceptional; it is truly pathetic. Purely Republicans, but still pitiful. In fact, what is pathetic to a secular humanist is a badge of honor, and a sign of exceptionalism, to conservatives so polluted with religious and xenophobic hatred against non-white non-Christian human beings. There was, and the operative word is was, one area that America was, at one time, indeed exceptional among the world’s nations, but Republicans and their dirty bigoted followers have crusaded tirelessly to extinguish it once and for all....
Now, not only are Republicans as an organization, and some Democrats, openly rejecting America’s only claim to exceptionalism based on race and religious grounds, they are lurching towards becoming one of the truly exceptional nations in world history; Nazi Germany. This is something Republicans have been actively pursuing and ramping up over the past six years, so sod off to whomever dares cite Godwin’s Law. As Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and no matter what they are calling themselves, Republicans smell like Nazis.
It is noteworthy that Republicans are going full-on fascist precisely as predicted by ISIS leaders last February, and are driving hard to take it a step farther with an agenda that would make Adolf Hitler proud. It is true that as the GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is making the most public statements about America adopting Adolf Hitler’s policies targeting non-white non-Christians, but he would not be broadcasting his Nazism without substantial support from far too many Americans.
Last week Trump suggesting closing down mosques because this is America where Republicans regard the concept of religious freedom as reserved solely for white Christians. Now his brilliant plan is requiring Muslims to register in a national database and carry identification that marks their religious beliefs. Trump stopped short of following the Nazis’ requirement that Muslims openly display a “crescent moon” patch marking them as Muslims, but it will not be far off because how else can xenophobes identify and attack Muslims based on a national database; they will need a publicly recognizable mark.
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