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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Sieg Hill!! Sieg Hill!!

Once again a fanaticism from another time rears its head in America. At a Trump gathering in Minneapolis people lie in wait outside, then attack people who attended the meeting. They chase people, beat them up and jump up and down on their cars as they try to escape. Police are there, but nothing is done to stop the violence. Sound familiar?
Same thing in San Jose in June, mob violence against Trump supporters trying to take part in the democratic process.  Some bloodied, cars demolished, some running for their lives chased down by the mob. The mayor of San Jose, a democrat,  not only limited police presence at the rally in an obvious attempt to encourage violence, but said afterword that it was okay to use violence against people you disagree with.
In Arizona a mob blocked a highway to prevent people from attending a trump rally. A sheriff attempting to enforce law then finds himself threatened by democrats in the state.
The world has seen this before. When we were kids, at least when I was a kid, we all asked the question, how could the German people just stand by and let it happen? Well the best answer was always "magic". His oratory was hypnotizing, the Germans were fooled by a master speaker, the anti-christ or whatever.
But what was it really like? Germany passes a law making gun ownership illegal, and everyone turns in their guns to the state. 24 hours after that deadline, Jews all over the country are attacked and businesses destroyed in what became known as Kristallnacht. The violence was blamed on the victims, the Jews themselves. The only thing the German people heard was the propaganda, there was no Fox News channel in 1930's Germany, no alternate sources of information. The Brown Shirts, Hitler's private army, were "defenders of the German people", trying to right "clear" injustices that were being visited upon the innocents.
Germans supported him fanatically, many rank and file Germans willing to do violence to protect their country from the internal threat. Even upper class Jews supported him for a while, thinking that he wasn't really talking about them.
Today that should sound very familiar. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes, as Mark Twain may have said. Today we find ourselves at the beginning of a long rap, where fascism is being employed by rank and file supporters of Hillary Clinton, and threatens to become part of our everyday lives.
The parallels are uncanny. When Trump supporters are attacked by the mobs, the media gives very little coverage. What they do say is that Trump and his supporters "incite violence". The main stream media, what we used to call "the state media" when it was another country, blames the victims. If someone who the media decides is a Trump supporter hits someone at all, it makes headline news, and video is covered around the country in all time slots. The narrative, what we used to call "the propaganda", is that Trump supporters are a violent lot, and the rest of us need protection from these brutish thugs. Then the protesters, or what in 1930's Germany were called "the Brown Shirts", show up to defend our nation from the brutish Trump supporters.
 Think back to the weeks long invented controversy, invented by our state media, claiming Trump wouldn't "disavow" David Duke. Duke is the media's symbol for the KKK. Do you think it's odd that Trump was not asked to disavow the KKK, but rather some guy who no one but Rachel Maddow pays attention to? Oh, and she does by the way. During primary season she slavishly follows his twitter, waiting desperately for him to say something, which she immediately goes public with on MSNBC during their primary coverage. You would think he was a former president the way she announces his tweets with solemn "I told you Trump was bad" importance, giving Duke the best media coverage he's ever gotten. Its bizarre to see, if not comical.
Trump was supposed to know that State Media Rules are that David Duke = KKK. When they ask him about David Duke, their rule is "when we say Duke, we are really saying KKK". So when he doesn't get that, the state media gets to spend weeks claiming Trump would not disavow "David Duke -and- the KKK". It is narrative. Propaganda.
To date no one has ever asked Hillary Clinton to disavow her violent supporters, to disavow her mobs chasing down their fellow Americans and beating them because they disagree on politics. She's never asked to disavow the mobs jumping on cars trying to leave the rally. They will ask Trump why he refuses to dial down the "violent rhetoric", even actually accusing him of threatening Clinton with assassination recently. Hillary doesn’t have to answer for her mobs, her private army. Instead the media blames the victims.
None dare call her Fascist. She has a private army today, though allows proxies to organize and run the mob. Millions of Americans today take part in the political process at risk of violence due to her mobs and her defacto support of the violence. Today her army commits nationalistic acts of violence against our country's perceived internal enemies, to protect the innocents. And all the while she accuses Trump of inciting the violence, and accuses him of nationalism.
Democrats often get accused of following the Saul Alinsky playbook. I think Clinton is following a much darker playbook, spelled out in 1930's Germany. If she wins, past will be prologue.


Sieg Hillary.

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