In perusing the news this morning, I came across some very scary rhetoric espoused by our moronic president tRump, vice-president J.D. Dunce (not a typo), and Mr. “Nazi Salute” Musk.

So, lets be clear on our history once again. Europe suffered two major world wars in the last century, the second included the mass execution of Jews, people of color, some Catholics, and pretty much anyone that didn’t fit the Nazi belief of the master race. During that same time period, the Soviet Union was blooming under Lenin and Stalin after the October Revolution. There are various historical accounts, but no one denies the fact that tens of millions of people were executed, died of starvation, forced labor, or internment including millions of of Ukrainians. And let us not forget Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward where some estimates of death reach thirty-million or more. To add one more piece to the historical context let us recall Afrikaners and apartheid. The end of this extreme racism is only thirty-years old and the fight for balance continues.

It has taken decades of healing and political deliberations by the masses to move toward more civil societies in order to prevent a repeat of dictatorships, authoritarian regimes, and the despots that were catapulted to fame for their atrocities. Now enter tRump, Dunce, and Musk. Mr. Musk is a white, Afrikaner child of apartheid and is holding tRump to the fire so that the United States can come to the rescue by offering passage to the white folks who feel oppressed in South Africa where they are not the majority. Not that they ever were. At the same time, anyone who isn’t white and tries entering our country legally or illegally, is besieged by racism and fear.

tRump, in the meantime, is cozying up to his old pal Putin in an attempt to let him keep the Ukraine land he’s reconquered paying little attention to the history of Ukraine and their massive losses during the Soviet past. Remember, it’s no secret and documented often, that Putin wishes to regain the Soviet stance no matter the cost to human life.

In the same week, Dunce travels to Europe, meets with the far-right extremest leader of Germany’s holdover racist groups, then berates the European Union of how they have put the clamps on destructive disinformation and non-factual Nazi propaganda. Are you kidding me? Is it not anymore clear how our United States leadership has devolved into something the world has tried to rid itself of since our own Civil War? Brutal racism and white supremacy.

We live in a world of eight billion people with multiple ethnicities, religions, faiths, beliefs, and norms. How is it we are back to a government that believes as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao that there is only one way? There can only be one “people.” If you don’t fit, you will die or should die. This is not an extreme conclusion. This is becoming the truth. And yet, the Christian Nationalists are driving the change. Christian? Are you serious? I was delighted to actually read how many spiritual advisors came out against closing of the United States Agency of International Development or USAID.

My fear is how gullible and how ignorant the American public has become of world history, world progress, and buy the fear that multiple cultures cannot exist together. Friends, we are all connected and we all survive as one human race. That continues to be my hope.