Has anyone else noticed the similarities between the Holocaust and America’s persecution of low income and homeless people?
The Holocaust wasn’t something that happened overnight, but rather was implemented in stages as soon as the Nazi party came into power. First there were laws to exclude Jews and other minorities from civil society.
America has done this to the poor by criminalizing homelessness and poverty.
People who collect welfare or disability are second class citizens and are for the most part banned from owning anything including a decent car, as well as from investing or starting a business - the only things that can lift them out of poverty and allow them to be self sufficient. Essentially they are stripped of their citizenship. This was also done to the Jews who were banned from universities and most professions.
Just like Jews, Gypsies and other minorities in Nazi Germany, America’s poor are forced to live in the worst parts of the city – in this case by unfair renting laws, such as refusing to rent to people who make less than 300 percent of the monthly rent.
Another similarity is the hatred for people with disabilities, and people who are not neurotypical, and the portrayal of them as parasites.
The propaganda about welfare queens leeching off the middle class and eating sushi and lobster is eerily similar to Nazi propaganda about greedy and treacherous Jews stabbing Germans in the back. Just like Hitler blamed the Jews for the Great Depression, conservatives and libertarians blame immigrants, blacks, and poor whites for the Great Recession.
Violence against the homeless has increased dramatically since the economy crashed in 2007, just like pogroms against Jews and Gypsies became more frequent until Nazi rule. Police brutality against blacks also echoes these pogroms.
Just like the Jews, the poor had their property unfairly confiscated from them during the Great Recession; in the form of foreclosure.
Just like the Holocaust, the American prison industry is for profit and involves death via deprivation and torture. The privatization of the prison industry is making prisons more and more like death camps. Hundreds of thousands of people are thrown in jail for years merely for possessing small amounts of drugs and are subject to dangerous and horrible conditions. American prisons haven’t reached the same level as Nazi death camps in terms of cruelty, but they are headed in that direction. These people are unemployable once they leave prison because they have a mark on their record, and their existence as a human being becomes illegal from that point on.
Like the Holocaust, the persecution of the poor has taken place in the context of an invasive war of conquest and anti-socialist sentiment.
Most importantly and lastly, Nazi Germany was the richest, most high tech country in the world during the 1930s. America is the richest and most powerful country in the 2010s, but like Nazi Germany it is very poor in character, and mean spirited to an obscene degree.
The ultimate goal is to strip the lower class not only of their rights, freedom, dignity, and even their right to sleep, but of their lives.
Wake up people.
