During World War II Adolph Hitler and his Nazi cohorts devised a number of very clever plans to achieve their goals, one of which seriously demonized Jewish people. A great deal of their strategies utilized lies, and most of the German people turned a blind eye to what was happening. The Jews were blamed for everything bad that occurred in Germany. Hindsight has 20-20 vision, or so they say. History records the loss of Germany’s war, and a lot of native Germans have regretted their decision to support what is called the Jewish Holocaust.
During the Holocaust, the Nazis systematically murdered over 6 million Jews and countless others; included among those were 250,000 gypsies (Roma), nearly two million Soviet prisoners of war; nearly two million Poles; over 250,000 people with disabilities, over 1,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses, hundreds of men accused of homosexuality, and other victims. Basically, the Holocaust was one of the most vicious and violent assaults on humanity in modern history.
One of the chief strategies the Nazis used to influence people was to paint their enemies as sub-human. It was important to degrade them in the eyes of the rest of the German population in order to make them seem malevolent and toxic to Germany’s non-Jewish population. Deception and slander were used, which was an incredibly powerful tool that caused formerly reasonable German people to lose sight of truth.
Why is that idea relevant to Americans? It is because something very similar is happening in America as it relates to the immigrant population. The Trump campaign is demonizing immigrants by telling lies on them and refusing to set the record straight with the truth. One of the wildest examples of this was the lie that LEGAL Black Haitian immigrants have been stealing and eating American dogs and cats. The idiocy of this allegation has been debunked on numerous levels but Trump and his cohorts refuse to retract their assertions.
This is scarily important; what is happening before our very eyes is that people are ignoring truth and allowing propaganda to play havoc with their minds. In light of obvious lies, Trump has been able to convince Americans that illegal immigrants, and in fact, ALL immigrants, are the cause of the economic challenges that Americans face! Because of Trump’s powers of persuasion, his followers, including some Black people, believe everything that he says!
This is a dangerous state of affairs! Basically, Trump is tapping into his follower’s xenophobic inclinations and using them as a type of psychological judo, causing them to shoot themselves in their own proverbial feet. They are ignoring the “Creeping Totalitarianism” that is becoming more evident every day in the form of the gradual loss of freedoms that the Trump camp represents. This can be seen on the ban of over a thousand books, voter suppression, the loss of women’s rights to control their own bodies, and numerous other examples of the darkening of freedoms formerly accessible to Americans. The sinister threat of Project 2025 looms large.
Americans had better wake up and attempt to think more clearly. And for those who need to better understand the issue think about the state of mind that generated the January 6 Capitol attack wherein five people lost their lives and as many as 174 were injured, including police officers. We must understand that Donald Trump does not appear to be above enduring the loss of lives in order to cement his power.
Regarding the immigrant issue; the chief result of attacking immigrants is that of demonizing Kamala Harris; it is through this strategy that he can take her votes away because they are painting her as someone who invites immigrants into the country to soak up our resources! It may seem far-fetched that Americans can lose their freedoms or that others can lose their lives based on the immigrant issue, but we must not underestimate the mind of what appears to be a narcissistic individual with a jaded sense of right and wrong. In the end, if Trump succeeds, all Americans stand to lose the freedoms that they claim to love! Caveat Emptor—may the (hoodwinked) buyers beware! Aluta Continua.
(Reprinted from the Chicago Crusader)
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