I was born March 21, 1933, the same day, in Munich, Hitler made dissent a crime and cemented his dictatorship. Even gossiping or making fun of the Nazi regime was deemed unlawful. That summer over a hundred thousand citizens were arrested and sent to newly constructed concentration camps.
How did this happen? It happened because the three
opposition parties could not form a coalition to defeat the dictator.
Today I read that the Muslims of Michigan will not give their vote to Kamala Harris. It is infuriating enough that Cornel West and Jill Stein would put their ego ahead of the public good. But for the Muslims to withhold their support for the Democratic ticket is itself a crime against humanity.
In Hitler’s Germany the Social Democrats, Communists and
Catholic Center Party together had an equal number of votes in their parliament
but the Nazis prevailed because of their squabbling.
To see this same splintering unfold here and now, raises my blood pressure and my ire.
I share some of the outrage of the Palestinians but nothing can absolve them of their complicity in abetting the dissolution of democracy and the rise of American Fascism. Do they not realize their protest vote does not register except as a gift to Donald Trump. Will somebody inform them we do not have a parliamentary system here with proportional representation?
As a reward for their misguided act, are they blind to the consequences of their wasted vote in this most pivotal state; that Trump is a bedfellow of Bibi Netanyahu who would be unconstrained to unleash further lethal force against Palestinians? In addition, they are most likely to be deported.
Young pro-Palestinian sympathizers tend to live in an idealistic bubble. They think in absolutes. At some point they will understand it is much harder to live within the system than to throw stones at imperfections. I ask you to throw some water in your face and wake up before November 5th. We are stuck with a two-party system. None of the above, is not acceptable.
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