by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m reading a political biography of Hitler’s ascent and I’m struck by how prosaic it all was, or, “the banality of evil” as the old saying goes. Nazism, for the most part, was treated as any other political movement. Yes, it was unusual because it’s leader was a “clown” and there was cult-like reverence for him within the movement, but other than that, it was pretty much just one of a number of far Right political parties in Weimar Germany.
And I’m sure for much of the Nazi Party’s existence, there were earnest, well meaning members who did not take people who hated the Nazis seriously. They were patronizing and did everything in their power to come across as calm and centered — even if everything about what they believed was based on a hateful lie.
I say all this because I still, on occasion, run into a fucking MAGA cocksucker who obviously doesn’t take my distaste for the American Nazism that is MAGA seriously. They like to make jokes, and their tone of voice is very patralizing and you have expect them to call me “adorable.”
I fucking hate that. Take my anger seriously, if you really want to talk to me about your hate-filled movement. Instead of belittling me as if I’m some sort of wayward soul, validate that I fucking think you follow a ding-dong who could very well destroy humanity if things don’t go so great.
But I think I’m deluding myself. In the end, I’m going to face an existential choice in the real world. Am I going to shut up and keep my head down like a Good German, or am I going to keep ranting about how much I think MAGA fuckers can suck my cock?
Of course, I’m going to stand my ground and continue to exercise my freedom of speech, even if it doesn’t exist anymore. Wish me luck. I’m sure at some point after 2025, once we have a MAGA POTUS again, my body will be discovered in a ditch somewhere with an ICE bullet in it.
