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No Place for Nazis
Religious bigots and conservatives are bad folks, right?
I’m pretty sure that my “liberal” stepmother the former social worker had no idea that Hitler’s concentration camps were inspired by the U.S. “Indian” Reservations. I don’t think she knew that Hitler’s Nuremberg laws forbidding marriage between “pure” ethnic Germans and Jews (or others, such as Romani or disabled people) were based on, in many cases using word-for-word translations, of U.S. Jim Crow laws driving racial oppression against Black American descendants of slavery.
I estimate I was yelled at by her at least fifteen or twenty times, frequently to emphasize pro-abortion views, but also to criticize specific politicians of the day who were deemed to be evil. Basically anti-Nixon, in her view, the most evil man in history.
That’s what U.S. political party loyalty and propaganda does. It propagandizes each set of adherents against each other more thoroughly and utterly than Phillies fans against the Stinkin’ Mets. It makes the groups hate each other with greater and more persistent fervor than UCLA fans hate USC and vice-versa.
There really are no reliable figures on how many people officially “belong” to either of the U.S.’ two major political parties, but one claims more adherents than the other, and both work ceaselessly to convince…
