The GOP has truly become a Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde.
They want America Great Again and I think they are trying to evoke the the time where people were all nice. People were all the same. People all had the same values.
The halcyon days of our youth. American won WWII and was in a period of expansion of personal wealth….for some...those on TV.
We didn’t have all those problems of today caused by those not like us. Those not like us were not portrayed as families, and if portrayed at all, it was in a subserviently role.
And probably the greatest hero of WWII, Turing, who broke the nazi code and save 100,000s of lives was brow beaten into committing suicide because he was gay.
So how is it, that if you espouse these values, that you ignore facts, instigate violence and an insurrection, lie and create conspiracy theories and even worse...cast doubt on democracy itself.
How can you act in any manner other than June and Ward Cleaver if that is what you want to return to? Would June and Ward vilify others? Would June and Ward raise the crackpots up and acknowledge them and use them as their brown shirts to terrify anyone they didn’t like? Would Ward and June accuse people of being traitors, child molesters or worse if they didn’t agree with them?
And if you are one of those brown shirts programmed by a series of lies you listen to every day, remember, Hitler used you to gain control, and then killed you all.
As a Jew all I can see is 1938 Germany.
Or maybe you just want Senator McCarthy back of that era for a witch hunt that turned up nothing. Did ruin a number of lives though. The fear of the ‘communist’ as if you couldn’t have a communist party under our laws, was instilled just like it is today.
Press that fear button. The democrats are going to take Mexican murderers and rapists and make you take them into your home. They are going to get something you didn’t get. Forget ‘love others as I have loved you so that others know you follow me’. Although, that’s what Ward and June believe in.
‘Sir have you no sense of decency?” Every one of us, regardless of party or belief system must not engage in anger, violence or disrespect.
Stop it now if you are an American, a citizen, and a patriot.
End sermon — Rabbi Arnstein