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Anne Frank's stepsister compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

cnn.com
In an essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Anne Frank's stepsister accused Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

anexperimentallife:

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Just in case you missed the link in my other post. As someone who has studied Holocaust Literature and who has done a lot of reading on 1935-45 Germany, I feel I am somewhat qualified to point out neo-Nazism when I see it. But if you don’t want to take my word for it, how about the word of Anne Frank’s stepsister, who survived a Nazi death camp, and knows–from first-hand experience–more than a little something about what a Nazi looks and sounds like.

Honestly, I hold Trump supporters in much, much lower regard than I do Hitler’s supporters leading up to, and during, WWII. Why? Because most of Hitler’s supporters had no idea what atrocities his ideology and rhetoric would lead to. Most were just average people who would never dream that their country could ever commit true evil. Very few people not directly involved with the death camps even knew they existed, much less what went on in them. When shown footage of death camps being liberated, hardened front line German soldiers wept openly, or threw up. Because they truly and honestly had no idea.

Trump’s supporters–including every Republican who speaks in his favor, who voted for him in the primaries, or who will vote for him in the general election–do not have that excuse. They cannot pretend to be unaware of where this is headed; all they have to do is look at recent history to see exactly what happened last time someone with Trump’s ideology rose to power over a nation.

And if they refuse to look, if they squeeze their eyes shut and turn away from all the evidence laid out before them, even resisting when those who know history tell them, “Look at this source,” well…

No one puts that much effort into refusing to see unless they already know what they will find, and want to avoid the responsibility that comes with that knowledge. And when you work that hard to avoid looking, you don’t get to claim unwitting ignorance.

No, Trump supporters know exactly where this is going. And they are eager to get there.

Reblogging myself because when Republicans start in about how it’s “unfair,” and “just name-calling” to characterize them as neo-Nazis, I think it is important to remember and to point out that in addition to Eva Schloss,  numerous other Holocaust survivors and their children are comparing Trump and the modern American GOP to Hitler, and WWII Germany’s Nazi party, as well.

I’ll keep reblogging this and adding to it as long as Trump and his supporters continue to be neo-Nazis. Here’s another interesting article about Trump and his supporters in the American neo-Nazi party, aka the GOP, from the Atlantic.

And another, in which–among other things–Trump’s ghost writer, and a couple of psychiatric professionals weigh in.

I’m tired, but if you want, you can scroll back through my “rob gets political” tag, and/or “rob talks about fascism.” Somewhere in there are a couple of reading lists to further acquaint yourself with what fascism actually is, and how the Nazis rose to power in late 1930s Germany, so you can draw your own conclusions.

And again.

“I’m just exploring all my options”

dduane:

vaspider:

lady-feral:

solacekames:

sitta-pusilla:

You have no options. Voting for a third party candidate is effectively throwing your vote away. It’s a BINARY CHOICE. 

You are going to get us all killed.
You are going to get us all killed.

You might not remember what happened last time, but I do. Leftists swore up and down an Al Gore Presidency would be “just as bad” as a Bush Presidency. That was the EXACT phrase they used.

“Al Gore is a corpratist,” they said.

“I want to vote for something instead of against something,” they said.

Now, over a decade later, the entire GLOBE is still trying to correct what was done during the Bush administration–global financial collapse, SCOTUS nominees, TWO endless wars, drone strikes, the Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, Isis, DICK CHEYNEY.

Open your eyes and see how the tide is turning. For the past 10 years, there’s been a steady rise of right-wing ideology and politics. There’s UKIP and the Brexit, France and their damn neo Nazi Marine Le Pen, whatever is happening in Brazil right now. Canada only just ousted a leader who muzzled scientists who spoke about climate change!

And now we have the possibility of Trump. Trump who, as of this moment, has a 38% chance of winning according to Five Thirty Eight. Not 38% of the vote. 38% chance of winning. Those aren’t terrible odds. They’re better odds than rolling a specific number on a die, 16.68%. 

Do you understand that we have a chance to flip the Supreme Court for the first time since the 60’s? 

Remember all that Civil Rights shit from the 60’s? Do you know what happened to it, why it didn’t usher in a new age of equality like MLK’s Dreamers hoped? The Burger Court happened to it. The Burger Court is the conservative-majority Supreme Court that came into power in the backlash following the 60′s. With that Court came a conservative jurisprudence that would last for generations. It was the Burger Court that stymied de-segregation efforts, and created ‘white flight’ by ruling that de-segregation orders couldn’t be extended past district lines. It was the Burger Court that laid the groundwork for Citizens United, when they ruled that corporations could spend money in politics. Everyone was so shocked when SCOTUS ruled corporations are people and money=speech. Well, thank the Burger Court!

Now, for the first time in SEVERAL DECADES there is an opportunity to flip the Supreme Court. We haven’t had a liberal jurisprudence since the 60′s. And look at what’s coming down the pipe–anti trans laws like HB2, Affirmative Action, housing rights, repealing Citizen United, immigration, abortion, gun control, police brutality, climate change, etc. 

I am begging you to vote Hillary. And tell others to vote Hillary. I won’t quibble over whether her policies are better than Trump’s (they objectively are) or whether or not she is a better person than Trump (that’s…more subjective). The SCOTUS nominations should be reason enough. PLEASE don’t make me live through a Trump administration. Please don’t do this again.

I want to fix our system so that third parties have a chance, but at the same time, I substantially agree with the post above. I was around for Bush V Gore. I voted for Nader. Yeah, we were wrong. My vote didn’t really count because I wasn’t in a swing state, so I don’t feel guilty, but I was still wrong,

I’m voting Clinton this election even though I’m still not in a swing state. Especially if you live in a swing state, you need to vote Clinton. 

Fuck.

I had just had @mistresskabooms the last time I watched angry progressives sentence our country to eight years of Bush. She was an infant. I don’t want to send her into adulthood like this. Please. This is scarier than 2000.

This needs a much longer post from me – and that will come when I’m less busy – but the OP and I are right in the middle of the same page here. (And now on top of everything the story starts to break of who’s really behind the Wikileaks material that just magically popped out at the worst time for the Democrats. Putin really doesn’t want That Woman in the White House. Frankly, that would impel me to vote for her even without all the other reasons, as Putin is Trump with a brain. [A truly terrifying concept.] …And nukes.)

micdotcom:

President Barack Obama just spoke out on Trump’s vision for America — and it’s brutal

President Barack Obama issued one of his most forceful critiques of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday, rejecting the candidate as a divisive liar and shooting down Trump’s claims the U.S. is on “the verge of collapse.“ Obama also provided another compelling argument against Trump’s claims about border security.

princess-stabbity:

you know, the best thing about ted cruz’s speech saying “vote with your conscience” is he doesn’t actually say “don’t vote for trump” like he literally let trump supporters themselves make the leap that voting for trump = not voting with your conscience

it’s exactly the kind of cunning and underhanded move one would expect from a time traveling serial killer