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The administration's (and R party's) entire M.O. is now to find relatively small, easy-to-target demographic groups that can't fight back, exact cruelty on them to marginalize them even more or (in their view even better) stamp them out, and then go carve out another small, vulnerable group and repeat. We're going to see this pattern repeat over and over in the near future, and there will be many targeted groups.


That famous Martin Niemöller quote comes to mind:

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

If we don't aggressively fight this at every step, it'll be our turn eventually.


> When the Nazis came for the communists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a communist.

> When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a trade unionist.

> When they locked up the Social Democrats, I kept quiet; I wasn't a social democrat.

> When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet; I wasn't a Jew.

> When they came for me, there was no one left to protest




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