lies and fear and authoritarianism
“the jews are overcrowding our hospitals” – hitler
“immigrants are a burden on medicare and medicaid” -trump
These statements are both lies.
They are lies that prey on our insecurities we have about life and death.
Our insecure feelings about life and death give us the fear we need to rationalize the empowerment of this mass murdering child rapist.
Get it?
Citation: “Nazi propaganda repeatedly portrayed Jews as a burden on public institutions, claiming they consumed disproportionate medical and welfare resources; this portrayal combined selective anecdotes, manipulated statistics, and pseudo‑expert testimony to present a false picture of systemic overcrowding and disease attributable to Jewish patients.”**
**Source: Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, Harvard University Press, 2006, especially Chapters 2–4 (discussion of wartime propaganda techniques and themes)