Former
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) took his wild-eyed religious persecution complex on the road this week, speaking to several (friendly) news outlets where he outlined his plans for 2016. He didn’t beat around the bush: he wants to run for president and he believes he alone may be able to stop the secular liberals from turning this country into Nazi Germany in short order.
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) took his wild-eyed religious persecution complex on the road this week, speaking to several (friendly) news outlets where he outlined his plans for 2016. He didn’t beat around the bush: he wants to run for president and he believes he alone may be able to stop the secular liberals from turning this country into Nazi Germany in short order.
First, in an interview with the Christian Post, Santorum fell back on his major campaign promise — the only one he ever fully articulates, really — that he will work hard to defend Christians from the heathens who conspire to take the Christ out of Christmas and the prayer out of schools. Also: something about liberals being the real bigots because they are intolerant towards homophobes like Santorum.
“If we continue down this path, things are not going to get better and the chance of something really bad beginning to happen, where your faith is really constrained, or your lives are really in danger becomes a possibility down the road.”
Yes,
Santorum can see it now. First, they strong-arm bakers into making wedding cakes for gay people,
next extermination camps where all good Christians will be sent replete with
mandatory readings of The God Delusion and
a Secret Santa gift exchange with no mention of Jesus. Also, genocide.
It’s
a pretty outlandish claim, but Santorum has proof. Just remember, nobody thought the Nazis could take over Germany either until
it happened. Ergo, the very fact that this sounds like the ravings of a lunatic
desperate to hock his new religious persecution documentary and
shore up his base for his inevitable presidential run makes it all the more
likely of being true.
“People don’t realize that, you know, Germany prior to the Nazis was a very religious country. It was a very Christian country. It was a very sophisticated country… and the idea that you could have this type of religious persecution take place over 10 years; Christians — Jews obviously — but also Christians being put to death… was unfathomable!”
Who
am I to disagree with the future President of the United States and the man who
will one day go down in history as the hero who prevented Nazi America,
but here goes:
The
idea that religious persecution could happen swiftly to the Jews in Germany was
not only eminently “fathomable” but had been borne out through history many
times over. In the 1850’s, the national hero of Santorum’s “sophisticated
country,” composer Richard Wagner, wrote that
Jews were so ugly in appearance that, “Instinctively we wish to have nothing in
common with a man who looks like that.” In the 1920s the “very Christian”
country Santorum laments the downfall of was frequently the site of lynch mobs
who sporadically targeted Jews in the streets, beating them and destroying
their businesses.
The
Nazi Party under Hitler didn’t invent anti-Semitism, they utilized it to push
their own agenda. The people of Germany were already deeply distrusting of the
Jewish community, and after the collapse of the economy after World
War I, the disenfranchised population (these “very religious, very Christian”
Germans Santorum yearns for) turned on their Jewish neighbors. The German
government, and soon the Nazi Party, would take the organic scapegoating and
turn it into a federal policy.
In
comparison, Christians enjoy incredible freedoms in America, so much in fact
that us radical secular leftists even tolerate Kirk Cameron. The only
“intolerance” that Santorum faces is that he must endure hearing “Happy
Holidays” in the checkout line and in most states he now isn’t allowed to tell
gay people that they can’t get married. Surely, that’s unpleasant — telling gay
people what to do is kind of Santorum’s pet project — but it doesn’t seem like
the kind of thing that Nazi Germany 2.0 will arise from.
Still,
real or imagined, Santorum plans to run for president in 2016. Unlike other
candidates who might suggest that they want to represent the people of the
country and lead America to prosperity, Santorum seems singularly focused on
stopping gay people, who he refers to exclusively as “gay activists” with a
“gay agenda” that’s apparently a stone’s throw away from the Holocaust:
“We need to continue to fight, and in fact to push back the other way,” Santorum told the conservative Daily Signal. “We’ve been too silent too long and we need to say, ‘Look, all of these thoughts are proper in the public square.’ We need real freedom in this country, not government-dictated adherence to a set of principles.”
To
that end, he told the news outlet that he has been “very, very clear in [his]
interest in looking at [running again],” adding: “We think we have something
very unique to say.”
Spoilers:
It’s about Nazi Germany.
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