Nazism on the Rise in America?

I will never understand, and I think as a country, we should never tolerate Racism, Anti-Semitism, the New Fascism, and the rise of the Right-Wing, MAGA GOP Nazism.

Freaky. So weird. The Nazi mind-set is an illness, a sickness of the mind.

How the hell did we get here? The people are wrapped too tight, amped up with FEAR & HATRED, armed with military-grade weaponry. The Lies and Conspiracy Theory-Minded Cultists are spinning webs of idiocy. 

How to navigate the river of shite? There is no excuse for this kind of madness. It is a conundrum, how to tolerate the intolerable? There is a sickness in the citizenry, and it's all a bit stunning & numbing. 

All I can come up with is to keep calm, carry on, call out the haters, highlight their idiocy, pull together with other like-minded folks, vote, lean to the light, trust the right working of government, the rule of law, Democracy, and sanity.

Hope, Truth, Justice... open-minded, open-hearted. Take a breath. Notice the haters spinning out. It's terrible and laughable. We can't succumb to the darkness.

Post-script: After writing the above I came across this post: "Obama: Resist Cynicism". It's good. Obama always gives me hope. He's smart, funny, articulate.  The best of the best of America.

From Barack Obama:

"I know these are tough times, but we’ve been through time before. The important thing is to resist the temptation just to throw our hands up and turn inward, to see politics as a zero-sum game where rules are made to be broken — the only way for people like Us to win is for people like Them to lose — to sink into cynicism.

You know, even in our darkest moments … this country has seen darker moments before. Underneath it all, I believe we’ve had more in common than our politics and our politicians suggest. Even when times are tough, I believe what unites us can be stronger than what divides us.

There have always been certain values that bind us together as citizens no matter who we are or where we come from or what we look like or who we love. We think about our kids, and we think about working hard, and we think about being honest and being fair. Homespun values.

And it doesn’t matter whether you’re on the farm somewhere, or you’re in the inner city, people have a sense of that. It doesn’t matter what your last name is. That’s the promise of America. That’s who we at least want to be. And in this election, you have a chance to do that, to make America live up to what we hope it can be."