I AM AFRAID

I am afraid.  There are no more norms.  Norms of decency, norms of civil discourse, norms of how our government works so that transition from one administration to the next protects us from conflicts of interest.  The Trump's are coming; they are leading white supremacists; they are taking over our country.  Russia's Putin has their ear.

In the past, there are questions.  How does a whole country of people like Germany allow a little pipsqueak of a man like Hitler to take over, rule the country, exterminate millions?  Now I know.  I feel it.

Trump stokes fear, eggs it on.  It's us versus them, he says.  A loud minority of haters grows and champions this person, this Hitler, this Trump.  They give the leader, this Hitler, this Trump, carte blanche to do as he will.  That voice, that contingent of haters, drowns out voices of reason.

Some say our country has started down a path to the unknown.  That isn't true.  If we continue on this journey, we end up just as Nazi Germany:  People will be afraid (refer to my first sentence).  Countering voices will be/are drowned out.

The ruling party, the Nazi's, Trump supporters, decides what will be done.  Who can they overcome now that they are in power?  Why, it's the people who are different from them:  different skin color, different religion, different gender, different sexual orientation.  Anybody who isn't the same as they must be destroyed.

"Get 'em out!" Trump screams at his campaign rallies.  "Kill them," screams Hitler to his crowds of supporters.  Loyal soldiers follow his orders.  Supporters pounce on dissenters and it's the dissenters who are thrown out, arrested, killed.

How does this story end?  How does Nazi Germany end?  It rots from the inside out.

We as a country have created this monster and it's we as a country who must see that the monster is stopped.  Stand up; speak out.  We, in this country of diversity, are the majority.  We overcome our fears; we decide our own future.  We are strong.  We come together.  We act.