The Nazis are coming, yet they’ve been here all along

This is disturbing at best, yet it’s also revealing and not very surprising.  To wit:

On August 26, the National Socialist Movement — though hereafter, I’ll refer to them by their proper moniker: Nazis — will be holding a rally on Capitol Square in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, where I currently live, to protest immigration, racial and ethnic minorities, non-Christians (of a certain variety), apple pie, pooties, and pretty much anything with any socially redeeming value whatsoever…

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My parents raised my sisters and me in a small town in rural Wisconsin. Never mind exactly which one — I have to maintain my anonymity here in order to keep my jobs for grad school. Suffice it to say it’s a good distance away from Madison, and in terms of worldview, it might as well be on a different planet. You might recall the story of the Indian River School District in Delaware, which ran a Jewish family out of town with death threats and other harassment after the family complained about the district’s official promotion of Christianity. Well, the Indian River School District has nothing on my hometown. Growing up, my mom, dad, three sisters, and I were the only Jews in town, and a lot of people were all too happy to remind us of that on a regular basis. Everyone else was Christian — more specifically, a fundamentalist Protestant variety of the sort we all recognize from Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and their ilk. Everyone was white, too, except for us — “Jews can’t be white, they’re just lighter colored niggers,” my sisters and I were often told by our classmates. After hearing that for all of my formative years, pardon me if I don’t want to be “white.” …

My sisters, for the most part, were very lucky — they suffered only from some of the most disgusting verbal harassment I’ve ever heard of, usually consisting of grotesque, sexually explicit comments mixed with vile accusations of the blood libel and “you murdered Jesus” variety. “Only?” you might be thinking. Yes, “only” — they suffered verbal harassment, but were never physically attacked except for one time…

That’s when my parents started thinking about moving us away. In total, though, I was physically assaulted 27 times, stabbed two more times, and shot at twice before we finally moved away the summer before my senior year in high school. Now, I’ve been very fortunate for the most part in that I am a stereotypical linebacker — very big and very strong — so my attackers usually walked away from their attacks with much worse injuries than I suffered. But they knew they wouldn’t win a fight and attacked me anyway because it was so important to them to draw Jewish blood. Thank God their chauvinism worked in my sisters’ favor, or they would have been attacked, too. The local authorities never did a damn thing to protect me or to stop the people who were attacking me, even though it was widely known who they were, there were often witnesses, and attempted murder is generally frowned upon. Indeed, they all but tacitly approved what happened to me. I think the only kid who had it worse than me was the one openly gay kid in school — and he leaned on my sisters and me and our very small, close-knit circle of friends for support. Ultimately, though, he couldn’t take it — he ran away when he was 15, and I have no idea what became of him. I can only hope that he is alive, safe, and happy somewhere.

The author of this article is sneaking back into his hometown with his sister and a friend so they can help another friend escape from the same kind of torturous life.  And this is a Christian town, poppets.  They have to sneak in so they can sneak her out.  All of them fear for their lives from these fine upstanding Christian folk.

Consider that very carefully and understand this is the same mentality now permeating our political discourse; it’s the same group of radical elements now attempting a coup d’état of the American way of life.  For that matter, just as Islamic fascists are working diligently to overturn democratic governments in Arab nations in order to institute Islamic rule, so too are Christian fascists attempting the same in America, and possibly — or, more to the point, likely all around the globe.

So while the Nazis descend on Wisconsin for their little celebration, they’ll be surprised to learn the state is already full of people who think just like they do, those who are already acting out the very worst of Hitler’s religious megalomania.

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