Wayne Root: IS AMERICA STARTING DOWN THE PATH OF NAZI GERMANY?
I cannot express how truly sad writing this OpEd has made me. But I’m a patriotic American. And I’m an American Jew. I have studied the beginnings of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. And I can clearly see parallels with what is happening in America today. Thank God we have President Trump (at the moment) keeping us from heading too far down this tragic path. But I must warn my fellow Americans, we are clearly headed in a frightening and tragic direction.
I know I’m not alone. A recent poll shows 80% of the American public believes things are spiraling “out of control.”
I never thought I’d write the following words about living in America: Those caught in the middle of the recent so-called “protests” in American cities, especially those seeing their businesses looted, burned, or destroyed; police stations burned or seized by radicals; or the downtown business district of their town taken hostage by thugs; finally understand how Jews felt in Nazi Germany on the infamous night of “Kristallnacht.”
This is exactly how it started in Nazi Germany all those decades ago:
I cannot express how truly sad writing this OpEd has made me. But I’m a patriotic American. And I’m an American Jew. I have studied the beginnings of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. And I can clearly see parallels with what is happening in America today. Thank God we have President Trump (at the moment) keeping us from heading too far down this tragic path. But I must warn my fellow Americans, we are clearly headed in a frightening and tragic direction.
I know I’m not alone. A recent poll shows 80% of the American public believes things are spiraling “out of control.”
I never thought I’d write the following words about living in America: Those caught in the middle of the recent so-called “protests” in American cities, especially those seeing their businesses looted, burned, or destroyed; police stations burned or seized by radicals; or the downtown business district of their town taken hostage by thugs; finally understand how Jews felt in Nazi Germany on the infamous night of “Kristallnacht.”
This is exactly how it started in Nazi Germany all those decades ago:
- Windows shattered, stores looted and burned.
- “Blackshirts” roaming the streets demanding people kneel at their feet.
- Censorship, book burning, snitching by neighbors and co-workers.
- Media propaganda and manipulation.
- The police and “good people” doing nothing to help
- Amazingly, it’s happening here today. And far too many political leaders, the media, and so-called “good people” are telling us it is acceptable.
All of us are experiencing some aspect of this dark period in America’s history…
- Many of us don’t fly an American flag at our homes, or dare put a Trump sign on our lawn, or in our store window, or a Trump bumper sticker on our car, for fear of violence or vandalism.
- Turn on the TV. We all see supposedly rational and respected people calling us “racist” solely because of the color of our skin.
- Our free speech is monitored, censored, shadow-banned, or outright banned by those who control social media.
- Our great American history is being destroyed, denigrated or erased. Radicals are toppling the statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and even abolitionists- heroes who bravely fought against slavery.
- A black NASCAR driver can wrap his car with “Black Lives Matter,” but an NBA announcer loses his job for saying “All Lives Matter” and a Philadelphia newspaper editor is forced to resign for writing “Buildings Matter, Too” as his city burned.
- NFL superstar quarterback Drew Brees was forced to beg for forgiveness for saying he will always stand for our national anthem. College football coach Mike Gundy was forced to beg for forgiveness from his players for wearing a T-Shirt with the name of a conservative TV network (OAN).
- Demented “Never Trumper” Rick Wilson tried to destroy Domino’s Pizza for a corporate tweet thanking a prominent Trump supporter for a compliment about their pizza…in 2012…before Trump ever even got into politics.
OPEN YOUR EYES. Study what happened in Nazi Germany began during the infamous night known as “Kristallnacht.” The night of November 9-10, 1938 marked the beginning of the attack on Jews by the Nazis. Jewish homes and businesses were looted, desecrated and burned while the police and so-called “good people” stood by and watched. Nazis laughed and cheered as books were burned.
