I don’t have words to express my rage, sadness, and fear. This isn’t the America I wanted. It feels like a horror movie that I’m trapped in. “What if America, but like, Nazi Germany?” I didn’t realize so many people felt this way. It’s devastating. Every day I wake up dreading the reality I’m in. I want to throw up.
American history has always been written in blood, betrayal, and failed ideals. Looks like the rest of my life is uncertain. We just… threw away every advantage. Every inch of progress clawed away from the hideous wreckage of the past, has been lost in less than a year. Yes we’ve done this before. This time though, it’s accompanied by a massive and corrupt power grab and the eradication of rights. They’re not just coming for Japanese-Americans, the First Nations, the Blacks, the Queers, or the Communists. They’re coming for everyone.
There will be a handful of names of people who could have stopped this. They failed America. Now it’s up to the rest of us. We either stand or we die. God fucking damn it, I didn’t want this. Only a maniac would. What a fucking waste. So much potential… pissed away in a frenzy of stupidity and hate.
There will be a handful of names of people who could have stopped this
First it was Susan Collins.
This week it’s Lisa Murkowski.
Something that is consistently forgotten about Nazi Germany was that in the design of the “final solution” it looked at the USA at the time and how it was “solving” it’s “problem” of black, communist, indigenous, impoverished etc. peoples and the main takeaway for Germany was that it was the template to start with, but it was inefficient and non-modernized.
After the fall of the third Reich and the reveal of the death camps by the USSR there was enough global pushback that curbed a lot of the most extreme aspects of those genocidal, authoritarian, etc. idealogies, but there was never a reckoning in most of the “western” world for much of the underlying ideology. As a result the main takeaway for most of the “western” world has not been against Nazism, but against efficient and unmasked Nazism.
Nobody really made comparisons between Isreal and Nazis despite the former running concentration camps for 80+ years, until they started an extermination campaign. America is only “becoming like Nazi Germany” after it starts to increase the efficiency of it’s military/prison/industrial complex despite a storied history of global muders, disappearances, etc. States in general are not seen with the walls, towers and guards that exist in reality which hold us all as political prisoners. The monopoly on violence isn’t questioned until it is, inevitably, used for its function instead of just primarily for show.
This is the America you’ve always lived in, it’s just discarded the mask due to it being “inefficient”.
The old America is gone. Plan accordingly.
I would if I knew what to plan for. An uptick in dirty looks? An invasion at my workplace? Vanished friends and family? Financial ruin? Roaming goon squads? Violence?
All of the above? One thing is for sure. No one really knows.
1930s Germany can be instructive.
But not necessarily predictive. Different century, different people. This is a Nazi remix. Same hook, sampled sounds, but it’s a new song. It remains to be seen how it will end. One thing’s for sure, we need collective action. I’m not burying myself in a bunker.
The article doesn’t have any information on where the camps are being opened. The Bloomberg article linked in the article has a map, but doesn’t provide many details.
