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Immigration, that has been a very hot topic since 2016 for the Republican Party. Do I think that immigration is a problem in this country? I would say both yes and no. Living in Florida I can’t imagine what life would be like without immigration especially in the tourist industry. After Hurricane Ian I don’t know what life would have been like without all those Spanish speaking immigrants tarping our roofs and doing just about everything needed to help with the cleanup. Do we say thank you to these hard working people? Not enough of us do. Instead many look down on these people that come in search of a better life and are willing to work for it. That was what I always thought was the American Dream. I have seen it written a few times that the American Dream is dead. Do you have any idea what killed the dream? I think it was greed, jealousy and hate.  

Trump has been talking about how immigration is poisoning our blood. In Durham, New Hampshire Donald Trump stated that “Undocumented immigrants were poisoning the blood of our country” This type of language has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric. Usually you would think that he was still trying to support his border wall but in Durham he took it a step farther by adding immigrants were coming to the U. S. from Asia and Africa in addition to South America. “All over the World they are pouring into our Country”. I am not surprised that Trump has expanded his racism and bigotry to also include people from other parts of the World. What is surprising me is how this is being not just tolerated by much of the Republican Party but embraced by much of the Republican Party. It appears to be being embraced by those very Republicans that Trump would consider are poisoning the Blood of our Nation. There are Cuban Americans, Hispanic Americans, Indian Americans and other races that are part of the Republican Party that would appear to be undesirable in Trump’s America.  I once said that I could see concentration camps in our future and it is hateful talk like what Trump is spewing that may bring about those death camps. I have seen signs on social media like Blacks for Trump and Latinos for Trump. They may be for Trump but I can assure you that Trump is not for them. You notice he didn’t mention Europe. Basically what Trump is saying that America is for Whites, European Whites.

People like to point to Hitler as the person that killed six million Jews. Like Trump,  Hitler was not alone. We must never forget that Germany was a so called a Christian nation, that as a nation participated in the killing of six million Jews. Italy was a Christian nation that was dominated by the Catholic Church that participated in the killing of six million Jews. These were White Christians that shared in Hitler’s vision of Arian purity that participated in the killing of non-Christians in the name of ethnic purity. We only talk about the Jews, which in itself was horrific,  but what is not talked about is the others whose only sin was not being German. Some have that number as high as five million more to the addition to the six million Jews. The Nazis also murdered over two hundred thousand developmentally disabled people because they did not measure up to what their idea was of a master race. Do we really want to have a dictator like Trump who wants to emulate Hitler?  Do we want to have a bunch of White Nationalist Christians deciding who is worthy?  Do we want a government that wants to decide whose blood is poisoning our nation?

I have made the statement that the Republicans would want to bring back slavery. Germany had over two million Polish slaves alone. That is right, one White Christian nation, in the twentieth century, believed that they were superior and enslaved people that they thought were inferior. At the end of World War II, 11 million people were freed from German detention centers with many of them being slave labors. When you look at Trump and his MAGA followers you will see them flying the Confederate battle flag right along with the Stars and Stripes and their Trump flag. That Confederate battle flag is part of the history of slavery right here in America. You can say that I am way out of line to make the American White Nationalist Movement that Trump leads and compare it to the White National Movement in Germany but I don’t think so. It started with one group of people thinking that their country and society was being poisoned by people that they felt were inferior and ended with some of the greatest atrocities in recorded history.

Do you realize that if Jesus was alive today he would be considered not worthy of entering the United States by the White Nationalist Christians that supports Trump and those he courts. Think about the type of person Jesus was. He would be a homeless immigrant from the Middle East that would be trying to enter the Country. Jesus would be just the type of person that Trump would not want here, the very type that he would say is poisoning our nation.

 

 

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