Our halcyon days

My major at Boston University was modern German history which also covered the rise and fall of the Third (Hitler's) Reich and German language and culture.

The primary Nazi tenet was always the solution of the "Jewish problem." This included their identification (the yellow Jewish star affixed to the front and the back of clothing), their concentration (in ghettos and concentration camps), their physical annihilation by bullets, in carbon monoxide gas vans, by the injection of phenol and even gasoline into their hearts often done by medical doctors, and finally by the use of Zyklon B (pronounced like cyclone) cyanide gas pellets which were dumped through hermetically sealed roof hatches atop the gas chambers built to resemble shower rooms.

The violent rhetoric and its increasing hatred can be stopped

With the foregoing in mind, I find the rise of Jewish hate in the current Democrat Party to be the cause of a nearly overwhelming dread as anti-Semitism continues to be increasingly popularized, to thrive, to manifest itself across and through their increasingly destructive subgroup, the Democrat Socialists and to spread thanks to an American media where spines are made of latex where the past is always overlooked and follow the increasingly shabby results of left wing teachers in our failing public school systems. 

As we approach the midterm elections, we must understand one important aspect of the upcoming voting: this violent rhetoric and its increasing hatred can be stopped in the ballot box by casting an overwhelming number of votes against its rank purveyors who seek to occupy offices where their fatuous claims and programs will find wider audiences. 

But if we fail, through timidity, or our failure and inability to call out the hucksters and purveyors of this age old hate, we may never be able to return to our halcyon days safe in the knowledge that the growing vineyards of Jewish hatred was previously nipped in the bud in May of 1945, and later with the death of Joseph Stalin and finally with the collapse of the evil Soviet Socialist empire. 

But that pipe dream has been rendered fatuous. The Democrat Party and their handmaidens in the Democrat Socialist Party, whose stars are AOC and a growing number of victors in the primary process, are moving into the mainstream both locally and nationally. 

The goals of the Democrat Socialists are nothing if not bold. They seek the elimination of our nation's executive, judicial and the legislative bodies. Though they are relatively mum on what would replace our republic, the world's longest lasting democracy, I suspect we could find ourselves kneeling before a new supreme Soviet, a newly concocted sword and shield of their party and a dictatorial despot who's protection would be provided by an American (if our nation's glorious name is even kept) analog of the once horrific KGB. 

In the history of the United States of America the stakes have never been higher should our losses hustle our public and private downfall.

John Burtis is a former Broome County, NY firefighter, a retired Santa Monica, CA, police officer. He obtained his BA in European History at Boston University and is fluent in German. He resides in NH with his wife, Betsy.

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