“Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.” [ Heinrich Heine ]
THE ARYANIZATION of American history, society, government, by the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY, like all other authoritarian regimes, reveals there are many ways to “burn people.” The modern way is to. ERASE. them from ALL government and official records, from history books. The Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY does this by ripping pictures off Pentagon walls, taking down commemorative murals, banning words, re-writing history, saying people didn’t heroically serve their country, firing generals and admirals who served America for 30-40 years, saying THOSE people didn’t exist, THOSE things didn’t happen
By excluding women, Blacks, Hispanics, LGBTQ, people of the “wrong” religions, – the ONLY Musk-Trump approved “real Americans” – straight, white males – are about 20-25% of “our” population. Are. YOU. in the next group of ERASED people to be deported?????????????
1] “Erasing history helps authoritarians because doing so allows them to misrepresent it as a single story, a single perspective…When authoritarians attempt to erase history, they do so through education, by purging certain narratives..especially true of one specific ..authoritarian ideology: fascism, which seeks to divide populations into “us” and ‘them” by appealing to ethnic, racial, or religious differences…..
“Today we are unquestioningly returning to something like..the Red Scare..symptomatic of a larger global attack on liberal democracy.” [ Jason Stanley: “Erasing History..How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control The Future” – READ THIS BOOK !!!! ]
*** “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” [ Terry Pratchett ]
2] “Historical events are erased and educators are threatened as officials impose Beijing’s policies….What the government is trying to say is that there are wrong teachers, wrong materials, wrong subjects..” [Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin: “Pro-China push in Hong Kong Schools”; Washington Post Weekly; 7/12/20]
*** “..Nazism permeated the flesh and blood of the people through single words, idioms, and sentence structures that were imposed on them in a million repetitions….The sole purpose of the LTI is to strip everyone of their individuality..to make them into unthinking and docile cattle..” [ Victor Klemperer: “The Language Of the Third Reich” ]
3] “..dozens of words that partisan Trump functionaries are perverting and purging…It’s though Trump’s word police think censoring language will hide the ugly realities the words express…Yet, the control of language is central to the entrenchment of totalitarian regimes, as George Orwell laid out in his bleak novel ‘1984.” [ Jim Hightower: “An AI Bot..”Trump’s Thought Police are Stomping on Freedom of Speech”; The Progressive Populist; 3/9/25 ]
4] “There is a new web page where you can now report all diversity, equity and inclusion activities to the federal government..” [ Katy S. Lesiak: “Get the DEI police on the phone”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 3/17/25. – So YOU, like good Nazis or Communists can turn in your fellow citizens – thus extending the reign of terror ]
*** “When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” [ Euripides ]
5] “You cannot remove photographs related to Women’s History Month without also removing the women in the photographs…the Defense department’s DEI initiative does not merely eliminate programs. It erases people….The way we tell stories about America’s past is the way we shape the story of America’s present..” [ Monica Hesse: “The DEI purge has gotten weird”; Washington Post Weekly; 3/16/25 ]
*** “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” [George Orwell: “1984”]
6] “Now the federal government is..banning or limiting nearly 200 terms from government materials and websites..”accessible, advocate, belong, Black, cultural heritage, disabilities..expression, gender, Indigenous community, justice..pollution, trauma, victim….Words like females..pregnant person, women…that describe the health and life experiences of women – are disappearing..” [ Kelsey Waits, Michelle Witte: “Try as the Trump administration might, it can’t erase women”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 3/24/25 ]
7] “More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down…The purges have removed information about vaccines, veteran’s care, hate crimes and scientific research..”… 3,000 pages from the CDC, 3,000 pages from the Census Bureau, 200 pages from Head Start. { Ethan Singer: “Amid DEI purge, thousands of U.S. government web pages vanish”; New York Times; 2/3/25 ]
8] “Arlington National Cemetary has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website..” [Tobi Baj, Michelle Ruane: “Cemetary website scrubs links about Black, female veterans”; Washington Post; 3/15/25]
9] A page on Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who raised the flag on Iwo Jima “..has now been erased amid Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown…Multiple articles about the Navajo code talkers, who were critical to America’s victory at Iwo Jima and the wider Pacific theater [in WW II] were also removed..” [ Jon Swaine, Alex Horton: “Web page on Iwo Jima veteran erased”; Washington Post Weekly; 3/23/25 ]
*** “Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]
With Justice For All 