Rise of the RepubliNazis

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. If you think it can’t happen again, and happen here in America soon… think again. Adolf Hitler’s goal in invading Eastern Europe was to exterminate the Jews and the Russians because they were not of “the Aryan race”. Like Hitler’s Nazis, republicans and tea-partiers have always given off an aura of hatred for anyone who is not like them. They have no use for anyone who is not white and wealthy. Their intense hatred of President Obama, though they won’t openly admit it, is based in racial bias.

Enter Rich Iott, a tea party favorite running for a seat in Ohio’s ninth district, who admits being involved with the WW II historical re-enactment society “Wiking” for many years, and proudly wears a Nazi Waffen-SS uniform. The society models itself on the Wiking division (Hitler’s elite 5th SS Panzer division).

Upon seeing the photo of Iott in his SS uniform that surfaced recently, military historian Rob Citino told the Atlantic: “The entire German war effort in the East was a racial crusade to rid the world of ‘subhumans,’ The multimillion Jewish population of Eastern Europe was going to be exterminated altogether… It sends a shiver up my spine to think that people want to dress up and play SS on the weekend.”

Beneath the surface of most republicans and tea-partiers is a Nazi just waiting to consolidate absolute power in America and rid the country of “subhumans”. The oblivious electorate who will cast their votes for these right-wing oligarchs risks unleashing a monstrous ruling class not seen since World War II. My thanks to Rich Iott for showing us the true colors of right-wing politicians in America.