The mere mention of the name “Adolph Hitler,” or of the repulsive nouns, “Nazi” or “Fascist,” reflexively evokes an emotional sense of abhorrence. Unavoidable references to the eerie “death camps, or the monstrous “Holocaust” are painful reminders of Man’s nascent potential for morally abominable action.
By empirical contrast, the human inclination towards moral and humanistic behavior is vital for the pragmatic and rational endurance of society. Said existentially important concept is fundamentally anthropological and sociological, and inarguably, non-partisan. Authoritarian restrictions on liberty and human rights are an empirical anathema to the healthy exercise of individual reason, societal morality, and its successful endurance.
Lamentably, the bizarre, catatonic-like failure of moral responsibility of the Republican Congress, presumably founded upon fearful submission to the autocratic devices of Donald Trump, has empirically exposed a subtle, sub-rosa fissure in the American body politic; the latter, affording the toxic entry of an unprecedented assault upon the systemic nature of our venerated Republican Democracy.
By illustration, it is reported that the official youth organization of the Republican Party, reportedly, has ubiquitously adopted such fascist terminology as “faggot,” “retarded,” has casually employed the “N” word, referred to black Americans as “monkeys’ or “Watermelon People, joked about death camps, “gas chambers,” and “ovens.” Principled opposition to the latter epithets and disagreeable references has been, most notably, dismissed by the Nation’s loathsome and observably bigoted Vice President, J.D. Vance to as “pearl clutching, over a few kids telling edgy jokes.” The referenced “kids,” reportedly, are in their 20s and 30s. The outre V.P. has forever distinguished himself by publicly declaring, “Hate is not a deal breaker.” It appears that the modern Republican Party prizes cruelty and bigotry as badges of party loyalty.
It is our ubiquitous experience that what starts out as crude, casual comments often eventuate into perverse conviction. We are sadly and alarmingly obliged to observe that the extant Republican Party appears to prize cruelty and bigotry as badges of party loyalty.
The media has revealed that Donald Trump has appointed an individual to head a federal watchdog agency who has overtly admitted that he has a “Nazi Streak,” and remains in office despite his reprehensible practice of racially bigoted remarks.
In this context, we cannot ignore the publicly demonstrated Nazi salute given by the autistic savant and trillionaire, Elon Musk, the Eichmann-like Steven Miller’s embrace of White Supremacy, nor the Holocaust denial expressed by the petulant enfant-terrible, Tucker Carlson.
Our Republican Democracy ignores such 1930s Munich-like toxicity at its existential peril.
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