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The questions that haunt the world in 2018 are the same ones that have been with us since the 1930’s and 40’s. How did the German people allow the state sponsored, organized and systematic mass murder of six million Jews? To what extent were they complicit in the events universally known as The Holocaust? Were these people as barbarous as the crimes would suggest? What did the German people do to stop their crazed leader, Adolph Hitler who held rallies and spoke of an Aryan super race of which Germany would be at the center? As it turned out…not much.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s official website states, “Although the entire German population was not in agreement with Hitler's persecution of the Jews, there is no evidence of any large-scale protest regarding their treatment and their government’s execution of what they called, ‘The Final Solution’.”
There is an old saying; “Evil happens when good people do nothing.”
I don’t know how “good” the German people were in those days and I don’t know how “good” Americans are here in 2018. What I do know is that the entire world knows what we are doing along our southern border. Like most Americans, they are appalled. They are watching to see what we are going to do about it.
We know that our federal government has been ripping small children from the arms of their parents and holding them in detention centers. We also know this is the direct result of Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy towards illegal immigration. This is a manufactured American problem that is born out of the same racist fervor that spelled the end of the Third Reich.
Will this spell the end of the American Empire. Not likely, but that doesn’t mean that there are not significant historic parallels. I’m sure that I’m not alone in the obvious similarities between the terms “Final Solution” and “Zero Tolerance.” As recently as last week Trump compared immigrants to snakes. How different is this to Hitler when he called Jewish people vermin?
When this is placed in the context of Trump’s unadulterated love of brutal dictators, his continued snub of America’s traditional allies, along with his unprecedented attack on America’s most enduring and venerated institutions, then this becomes an extremely frightening set of events which are interrelated and can’t be ignored.
The Germans’ “Final Solution” was their government’s euphemism for state sponsored mass murder. It came after decades of incremental and increased discriminatory practices against the Jewish people. Could the treatment of racial minorities in this country follow the same path?
I hope we never find out…but that is up to us. We have let this go on long enough. It is time that we, the people, take our country back. We should have zero tolerance for this type of government sponsored inhumanity. History will judge us as to how quickly we can remove this mad man from power.
The reaction of the Republican Party is that they are overwhelmingly in favor of these inhumane practices. These lemmings will follow their leader right over the cliff and into this hell, no questions asked. It is why Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, quoted scripture from the Bible to defend these barbaric and completely unnecessary practices. He was just playing to his base of support, his flock if you will. These sheep, dressed in wolf’s clothing, think it is somehow un-American to engage in any type of critical thinking whatsoever. This is what a faith-based government looks like… American style. It is nothing less than state sponsored terrorism. I call it a “hee-haw-jihad.”
It would appear though that a true American grass roots effort to pressure Trump into reversing his disastrous, inhumane and quite frankly poorly executed plan to hold children hostages has been successful, but with Trump and his gang who can’t shoot straight, who knows. From the beginning of this self-made crisis, the Trump Administration has demonstrated a combination of incompetence and cruelty that is mind boggling.
Just so we’re clear, Trump didn’t have a change of heart. He reversed his position because as he put it, “This looks bad.” There are many who have speculated it was just a test as to how far he could drag this country down into his gutter of depravity before we pushed back. He found out. The political reality is that most Americans couldn’t stomach this grotesque side-show and strongly voiced their opposition to this latest example of America’s militarized solution to a problem.
A few weeks ago, a member of the United States Congress went to visit the site of this sad chapter in American history in south Texas. He was not allowed to enter and was turned away by federal immigration authorities. This public relations gaff was made worse by inviting reporters to the scene of the crime the next day, but not allowing cameras inside the facilities. Instead the feds released their own footage. It included a ghoulish mural of Donald Trump staring down at his victims. His image had the American flag in the background.
That same flag represented liberation for the survivors of the German death camps and became a world-wide symbol which stood for American ideals and exceptionalism in the wake of that World War.
Now that flag represents something completely different. It has been stolen from us and used by the horn honking, racist thugs who roam our streets in pick-up trucks plastered with Trump stickers and scream unthinkable racial epitaphs at minorities as they speed by. I have witnessed this first hand and I’ve seen it happen right in front of police officers who did nothing. Is this just an American 21st Century, passive aggressive version of Kristallnacht?
One day after Trump dug his heels in while mocking those who disagreed with his policy of separating children from their parents, it appears he did a complete one eighty back flip and signed an executive order to keep families together. This of course wasn’t necessary as a phone call would have done the trick, but he couldn’t pass up a chance to grandstand and take credit for ending a crisis that he alone created. How this plays itself out is anybody’s guess, but the damage to our country’s reputation is irreperable.
This has happened on our watch. We are the people who tolerate this tyrant who has seized control of the White House. The question remains, what are we going to do about it? So far, the answer is…not much. Sound familiar?
- David Mac
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