"First they came …" is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It is about the silence of German intellectuals and certain clergy—including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself—following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
“…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.”
The newest CELEBRITY, KANYE, suffering from Narcissistic personality disorder, whose Symptoms include (an excessive need for admiration, disregard for others' feelings, an inability to handle any criticism, and a sense of entitlement), has entered the scene of American HATRED, a landscape not developed by TRUMP, but a place honed, primed, and pimped by TRUMP. And it is the Jews, who will next suffer the consequences by a population of peasants or peons or politicians, and their political puppet masters. Sadly the insecure, act insane, utilizing the easiest weapons of BIGOTRY/BIAS/RACISM and BOGUS to incite, the lower rung of society, (not economic low life, because there are way too many of the 1%), but those who were actually raised on lies, fear, and loathing.
Are any of us, those of us who become gut-wrenchingly ill, as each day of a Post-Trump Presidency provides more horror, degradation, and decimation of democracy, SURPRISED? From the Murdoch Family and their employees at FOX to the McConnells, McCarthys of the GOP, Jewish Donors to the Republicans like Bernie Marcus and the Sheldon Adelson Family, to the Preachers and Pastors whose sermon of silence never addresses hatred… a creature like Kanye can spew and incite. Some Corporations have reacted against this THUG, but others like Adidas remain aloof.
“We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate, or cruel, generous, or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.” Maimonides
