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'I'm a Holocaust Survivor—Trump's America Feels Like Germany Before Nazis Took Over'
Stephen B. Jacobs has a warning from the past for America today: It’s happening again. At 79 years old he is among the youngest of the living Holocaust survivors and was born six years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
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It also has a lot in common with Venezuela before Chavez. Two sides of the same coin. But it seems we’ve learned nothing from history.
We never do.
Well, there! We learned something. Oh.
History is anything that happened before you were born and is just words in a book that, at best, might be read by some people, be a question on a test, then forgotten as unimportant or irrelevant. It's why people are marching for rights they already have and trying to take away the rights others have they disagree with.
Anything that happens while you are alive is real, but when you are gone, suffer the same fate for the people that come after. The latest celebrity gossip, viral cat video, or what that bitch Nancy tweeted (I can't even!) is what really matters.
History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.