““”It is the same playbook. We have seen it before in history.” Stern responded to comparisons between Trump and Hitler.”
My Uncle is a far left Democrat.
Before Trump ever entered the Presidential race, Uncle made a posted something political on his Facebook timeline only about once every 2-3 weeks. But when Trump announced his intention to run for President, Uncle ramped up his political postings to several times a day, every day of the week.
To hear Uncle tell it, all Republicans were Nazis and Trump was Hitler. One of Uncle’s Facebook friends politely took him to task for comparing Trump to Hitler. Uncle went off on the guy, saying he knew what the second coming of Hitler and the Nazis looked like due to his family’s personal experiences with the Nazi holocaust.
How his grandparents perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. How he lost 8 out of 10 Aunts and Uncles to the Holocaust. How his Father, Mother and Sister barely escaped to the United States by the skin of their teeth.
Problem was that it’s all lies. His grandparents (my great grandparents) emigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century with their first child (born in Poland in 1901), decades before the rise of Hitler and his Nazis. His Parents (my grandparents) were born in the United States.
The remainder of his Aunts and Uncles (he had no Uncles by blood. His grandparents had only one boy, his father, and three daughters) were all born in the United States. Same with his Sisters (one of which is my mother). None of them stepped foot into Europe their entire lives, let alone during the holocaust (with the exception of one Uncle, by marriage, who joined the US Army in 1943 at the age of 30 and fought through Europe during WWII).
The Left lives in an alternate reality.
“You can avoid reality. But you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand.
You can choose your friends, but unfortunately you cannot choose your relatives....................
Does he know he’s lying?