I need every American to understand that what's happening in the U.S. right now is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany.
Hitler's political enemies, those in a different political party and those who spoke out against him, were some of his first victims. They were arrested and thrown into concentration camps, often for no other reason except that they didn't kiss Hitler's boots. There were enough of them that they had their own triangle color in the camps.
The Jews were treated like a race. You did not have to practice Judaism. You were identified as a Jew if anyone in your known family was Jewish. It didn't matter if it was just your great grandpa. It didn't matter if you had converted to Catholicism. In the eyes of the Nazi's, you were a Jew. And as a Jew, you had no rights.
Those taken by the Nazi's had no rights. The political enemies, the Jews, the non-whites, the queer - they could be arrested at any time, for any reason, without being told anything, and taken anywhere where anything could be done to them.
It's time to wake up and open our eyes as a country. It's happening here, in the land of the free, in the home of democracy, under the American flag. All that's left is to start a war, make some ghettos, and throw people into a gas chamber. And were one wrong move away from one of those.
People fought back then too. At least some did. They tried to stop it, but there weren't enough of them. They weren't loud enough. We have to be louder.
