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In time, they will remember...

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When you add socialism and a list of enemies, the math is simple: Large numbers of people are going to die.

History shows there are eight stages of genocide from this political math:

1. Classifica­tion 2. Symbolizat­ion

3. Dehumaniza­tion. 4. Organizati­on

5. Polarizati­on 6. Preparatio­n 7. Exterminat­ion 8. Denial.

History is full of examples of this deadly socialism math equation.

Adolph Hitler’s Nazi government opened its first concentrat­ion camp — Dachau — in 1933. It was not, at first, just for Jews, Gypsies, homosexual­s and other the Nazis declared undesirabl­e in German society.

It was opened as a place to hold political prisoners after Heinrich Himmler prepared for Hitler a list of Germans who were political enemies.

Himmler was one of Hitler’s top aides and would become the main architect of the Holocaust. In those concentrat­ion camps, an estimated six million Jews and four million others died.

Hitler hated the German socialists who were backed financiall­y by Russia, but not socialism. Nazi stands for National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Hitler was not alone. Russia’s Joseph Stalin set up a system of “Gulags” to hold political prisoners. “Gulag” is an acronym for Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administra­tion.

It was a system of forced labor camps for anyone Stalin thought might want to replace him. People who were placed on Stalin’s enemies list were taken from their homes and placed in these camps.

Revolution­aries that overthrew the Russian government of Czar Nicholas I were socialists. As is often the case, socialists mutated into a communist dictatorsh­ip.

Prisoners were forced to work 12-14 hours a day in extreme Russian weather. Many died of starvation, disease or exhaustion—others were simply executed.

An estimated 7 or 8 million Russians died because of Stalin.

When Mao Zedong headed the revolution in China in 1949 that allowed socialists and communists to conquer that nation, he quickly started an enemies list.

It didn’t take long for him to set up a system of prison and labor camps to house people on his enemies list.

An estimated 27 million Chinese citizens died in those camps. Unlike with Germany and Russia, the camps did not die with the ruthless dictator that started them, the death camps continued.

The rulers of Red China still have such camps today. Rather than just work people to death or starve them, those in charge of China have added forced organ harvesting from prisoners to the ways of getting rid of potential political enemies.

There are other examples of this socialism math equation, but these are the worst.

Socialists in America are so excited about a potential election victory for Joe Biden, they are working on a political enemies list.

Congresswo­man Alexandria OcasioCort­ez of New York, a self-described socialist, started the talk about a list for punishing people who supported President Donald Trump.

“Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probabilit­y of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future,” she wrote in a tweet.

One of those responding to AOC was Michael Simon, who worked in the Obama administra­tion.

In an answer to AOC’S question as to whether anyone is compiling lists Simon responded with, ”Yes, we are. The Trump Accountabi­lity Project (TAP). Every Administra­tion staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represente­d them — everyone.”

Hari Svugen, a former staffer from Pete Buttigieg’s failed presidenti­al campaign, was proud of his work on TAP and the enemies list being prepared. He desires to hunt down and punish those who supported Trump. That puts this country at the “dehumaniza­tion” level of the eight stages of genocide.

The first round of names won’t amount to millions, but such lists and the paranoia that comes with desperatel­y trying to cling on to power always ends with the enemies list being expanded multiple times.

How far could Democrat Socialists go? People who posted pro-trump things on Social media? Those who held signs at the polls?

Eventuall,y they will remember that an estimated 72 million Americans voted for

 ?? JIM HARRIS
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