From time to time, someone posts something on Facebook that really
bothers me. Yesterday was one of those times. The following was posted;
actually the person re-posted it. It appears to have been originated Worldtruth.TV.
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As you can see, the post was a picture of a massive crowd
attending a tally in Nazi Germany with the inserted text, “Never underestimate
the power of stupid people in large groups”. The circumstance surrounding the post,
as the comments tend to show, was that President Obama is a Hitler and his
liberal supporters, like me, are Nazis.
THE USA IS WORKING
HARD TO BREAK THIS RECORD...
Insert a MENTAL picture of Nazi rally with swastika like we have all seen.
A public service announcement (sec) from your
friends at WorldTruth.
This FaceBook PAGE is well beyond reasonable. I searched the internet for WorldTruth.TV, the apparent source and, as expected, the web
page is a one-person hate operation to promote the Republican Right with an exaggerated
claim to a religious foundation and social and patriotic righteousness[ no evidence of source of financial support. It is sufficiently
distant from the Republican National Committee that they can claim they do not
support or endorse it in any way that web site.
I was just a child when our advancing military opened the gates to several
“death camps” in Germany and Poland; those ghastly images have not only burned
in my memories but have guided my political beliefs. Even as a
child, I understood a political party had separated groups of people for
persecution followed by extermination—I did not understand why. Those groups included
those who were Jews, Gypsies, mentally infirm and those with Slavic ancestor:
anyone who is somehow different measure against some ideal of perfection . . . xenophobia. Thus,
it was an “Aryan” effort to take their country back from those they described as
undesirables; establish a hierarchy dominance with them at the top. If you can show you hate such people, it shows you are loyal to
this new ideal. The more intense your hate, the more loyal you are the more Aryan you are. When an Aryan
group gains power over people, they develop a sense of moral righteousness, a
sense of belonging, and a sense of power tantamount to belong to a church—you and
your other fellow church members are the only ones “good enough” to go to heaven. On the flip side, exclusive
membership means you will not be persecuted and eventually gassed and burned in
an oven; the church equivalent to burning in a “lake of fire”.
The people who posted this message on FaceBook are telling
you that if you are not a Republican; if you are not one of them you are “stupid”;
you do not belong to their “in-group”. Once we know who is included then you
can identify these excluded from among the elite; that is those outside the
right wing moral group; those who it is OK to discriminate against and to prosecuted.
Start with black people. How do we all know they have singled out this group? They
want to suppress voting across the entire old plantation southern states. Also, they target all poor
people who are poor because they are lazy, which we know they singled out because of GOP suppression of voters in
urban areas across the nation. In addition, by the things say and do, we know they
do not support such things as paying taxes, public educations, and environmental
protection; if you do, you are excluded. The failure of the Republican controlled
House of Representatives to pass immigration laws tells us that they target Latinos
as well. In addition, in an act of male domination they are putting women in their
place by restricting availability of contraception and abortion services. All
of these things are their 2014 version of the Nazi ovens of 60 short years ago.
I hope those of us who lived during those years remember that
every big manufacturing company secretly supported the Nazi movement but none were publically identified as being
Nazi. Their support and big donations to the party were secret; thus, they
stood apart from all the nasty stuff with clean hands, while they made big money
manufacturing war equipment: bombers, guns, airplanes, and ships. The Republican
Party, by stacking the Supreme Court, and using myriad political operatives, such as Karl
Rove has perfected the 2014 equivalent of that propaganda machine; they call it
“Citizens United”. By secret donations, industrialists support the daily individually
run hate generating machines we see evidence of everyday on FaceBook and in the pages of such yellow journals as WorldTruth.TV,
Bob Livingston Press, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh talk radio, Drudge Report, etc
not to mention seeing the same thing repeated in Rupert owned newspapers, and
on Fox news. However, as in Germany, never underestimate the power of stupid
people in large groups; even under the guise of what had once been a respected
political party name.
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