As I follow
the waves of international news, certain reminiscences disturb my peace of
mind, in relation to certain stories, read and heard in the last century.
Everything
about this unexpected American president reminds me of events, which I did not
experience, of course, but the films, the documentaries, the readings of this
time of darkness have always captivated me to the point of becoming paranoid
with the feeling that the world has lost all its bearings. In the face of this
imminent danger, I must shake the ashes of history to awaken the frozen shadows
of memory.
Along with
the unpredictable groups, such as the supremacists, the Neo-Nazis that have
increased in North America since the election of Obama. With the police who
don't give a damn about the lives of blacks and other colored people. With
small groups with stupid and sometimes absurd speeches like QAnon. With a
president who dreams of recreating the America of yesteryear where the white
Caucasian reigned as king and master of lives and goods, never, ever, to relive
the effrontery of another negro in the White House..., we find ourselves once
again in the stupid madness of the xenophobic European idealists of 1939-1945.
To summarize the famous political sociologist Seymour M. Lipset: "Emotion
dominates over reason to restore the greatness of America".
Indeed, if
it is necessary to describe this prefigured, anticipated scene, let's do a
flashback in the years mentioned, of a Germany, humiliated in the 14-18 war,
which dreams of revenge, of rebirth, with the vision of the Third Reich, for
understand the fear of worried minds. Let us simply remember the early Nazi
occupations and the dramatic chronicle of the “Bastards of the Rhineland” in
the name of the misrepresentation of the races of sub-humans.
But today,
in 2020, racism supported by incredible titles such as: Neo-Nazi, electrifying
slogans: Make America Great Again, uneducated people in the system with
seductive-sounding names and overestimated egos: Proud Boys or PB, dissuasive
images of weapons of war, the discreet and subtle orders of the Republican
candidate, such: Stand-back and Stand-by, launched casually, on the fly, in
inconsistency and delirium, leave an indefinable aftertaste in the psyche of
certain citizens who had lived or who are quite familiar with the suffocating
history of fratricidal wars.
This is
exactly how the Holocaust began in the1930s. The same warning signs, the
same slogans, the prohibitions left no room for doubt when the books of famous
Jewish writers and thinkers began to be burned at a high stake. We listed the
works of Karl Marx, Henrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, Henrich, and Thomas Mann or
Berthold Brecht… etc. Thus began the flight of the first Jews from Germany
among writers and artists. By this date, the Waffen-SS had not yet reached its peak in its sordid crimes. But their embryo was available to start the dirty
job, intimidating today like the militia racist Proud Boys.
The Nazi ideology, synthesized by the formula "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer" "A people, a state, a leader", brings us back to scenarios of an outrageous madness of a pure America, whiter than white, which we are currently seeing, with the closure of borders, the Mexican wall, the entry ban for certain peoples of the Middle East, the “Shit holes” or “Land of latrines”, the disabled, the weak, police officers with innocent blood on their hands. Even the dead American soldiers are "losers", suckers. The Chinese who have become Uncle Sam’s pet peeves? Mix everything up and you have a pot of hate ready to explode in our face, just like in 1939.
We must
thank, once and for all, the American Constitution, which still resists as the
last impassable shield that prevents this megalomaniac president from
obtaining, for the moment, the wonderful title (sic) of "Continental
Dictator", the master supreme of life and property, as Adolph Hitler had
almost become in Europe in 1939-1945.
If Trump had
the ability to write, he would have written a book like Mein Kampf, setting his
societal agenda for the purpose of enforcing his petty nationalism, his
much-advocated white supremacy, or, to determine invariable, the place of each
in the hierarchy of races. Does Trump's German origin have anything to do with
this apprehended saga? Let’s not wait for the masks to fall!
Thinking
about the distinctive signs of the German Führer, such as the Nazi salute, the
Heil Hitler, arms raised, we are not far from Trump's triumphant thumb as a
sign of master of the game, in front of his spellbound supporters. Hitler’s
facial expressions in public, always cynical, an angry face still froze, leaves
us with the impression that they have been studied and adopted by our Donald,
this junk actor with a peroxidized wick. The looks of the Führer on his rugged
Mercedes Benz 770K and that of Trump descending the steps of his "Air
Force One", to the applause of his mercenaries, are strangely alike.
Will
minority immigrants and their descendants are at risk for the future if the
election cycle stops its focus on Trump's name? Nothing is reassuring. I always
have in mind the image of Jews, Gypsies, and Blacks, born in Germany for
generations, who were wiped out because they were simply not born into the
right community.
This feeling
of "the eternal stranger" sometimes makes me think about the case of
my own children, born in my adopted country. Because, never forget: For fools,
the belly of the beast is always fruitful.
In fact, if
Trump, as supreme leader, could corrupt and control the US Armed Forces, as
Hitler had pulled off, on "The Night of the Long Knives" of June
1934, the case would be in the bag. Still, he doesn't have this evil genius,
this comma of intelligence to rewrite history. This is what just protects
America and the world so far.
Therefore,
on November 3, 2020, dear Elector, for you who will never be an integral part
of the "America Great Again", the only opportunity to save your skin
from the apprehended Gehenna, is at the polls:
Go ahead!
You have no right to make mistakes! Don't "Trump" twice.
A
translation of HCC - Original Version was written in French by Max Dorismond
