Now Is The Time For All Good People? To Come To The Aid Of Their Party

There isn’t a whole lot that needs to be said. If you want to understand the extremist point of view, one only needs to look at the original KKK credo and belief system. Particularly its second rendition, inspired and supported by the 1915 DW Griffith’s film “Birth of A Nation” — the Facebook of its time. This is the one where Christianity is aligned with the KKK’s violent methodology to claim superiority and uses the bible as its justification and finds its righteousness for its horrifying behavior.

When I was a child, being of Jewish extract, we were in fear of the John Birch Society, a fundamentalist’s Christian organization connected to the White Citizens Council. Their anti-Semitic activity was well known among the Jewish population, and, as it wasn’t long after WWII when they gained their strength, we lived in anticipation the violence that might reign down upon us. As a child, I was told to answer the question of “what are you” was to always answer “I am an American” and certainly not to answer Jewish.

Today is no different. Cries of “the Jews will not replace us” and the insistence of extremists, who perpetrated the Jan 6th insurrection, that this “Nation Is A Christian Nation” sets the stage for the drama of the Rise of Fascism. The unconstitutional “constitutional” sheriffs are now holding rallies called freedom revival rallies, and the logo for these events includes a cross. Sound familiar enough yet?

The fear this has inspired has people, those I personally know, remarking that their Plan B is leaving the country.

All of us, who do not worship Guns Like They Are God, must stand together, and say “I Am An American”. I, for one, do not intend to go anywhere. I will stay and fight — “For liberty and justice for all- someday”.