A total of 47 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted for anti-Syrian refugee legislation straight out of a Nazi Germany mindset. Here are the House Democrats who voted for the legislation:
| Pete Aguilar |
California 31st |
| Brad Ashford |
Nebraska 2nd |
| Ami Bera |
California 7th |
| Sanford Bishop, Jr. |
Georgia 2nd |
| Julia Brownley |
California 26th |
| Cheri Bustos |
Illinois 17th |
| John Carney |
Delaware At-large |
| Gerry Connolly |
Virginia 11th |
| Jim Cooper |
Tennessee 5th |
| Jim Costa |
California 16th |
| Joe Courtney |
Connecticut 2nd |
| Henry Cuellar |
Texas 28th |
| John Delaney |
Maryland 6th |
| Lloyd Doggett |
Texas 35th |
| Tulsi Gabbard |
Hawaii 2nd |
| John Garamendi |
California 3rd |
| Gwen Graham |
Florida 2nd |
| Gene Green |
Texas 29th |
| Janice Hahn |
California 44th |
| Jim Himes |
Connecticut 4th |
| Steve Israel |
New York 3rd |
| Marcy Kaptur |
Ohio 9th |
| Bill Keating |
Massachusetts 9th |
| Ron Kind |
Wisconsin 3rd |
| Ann McLane Kuster |
New Hampshire 2nd |
| Jim Langevin |
Rhode Island 2nd |
| Dan Lipinski |
Illinois 3rd |
| Dave Loebsack |
Iowa 2nd |
| Stephen Lynch |
Massachusetts 8th |
| Sean Patrick Maloney |
New York 18th |
| Patrick Murphy |
Florida 18th |
| Rick Nolan |
Minnesota 8th |
| Donald Norcross |
New Jersey 1st |
| Scott Peters |
California 52nd |
| Collin Peterson |
Minnesota 7th |
| Jared Polis |
Colorado 2nd |
| Kathleen Rice |
New York 4th |
| Raul Ruiz |
California 36th |
| Tim Ryan |
Ohio 13th |
| Kurt Schrader |
Oregon 5th |
| David Scott |
Georgia 13th |
| Terri Sewell |
Alabama 7th |
| Kyrsten Sinema |
Arizona 9th |
| Louise Slaughter |
New York 25th |
| Marc Veasey |
Texas 33rd |
| Filemon Vela |
Texas 34th |
| Tim Walz |
Minnesota 1st |
When I say that these 47 Democratic traitors sided with ISIS, I mean that they are effectively fueling ISIS propaganda by refusing to take in the very people who have been oppressed by ISIS and the Syrian dictatorship of Bashir al-Assad. When I say that this legislation is straight out of a Nazi Germany mindset, I’m referring to public opposition here in the U.S. to accepting Jewish refugees who were fleeing the Holocaust and the Nazi Germany regime of Adolf Hitler in the late 1930’s.
It’s not just moderate and conservative “Democrats” who are effectively siding with ISIS and repeating the history of the Nazis by opposing Syrian refugees. Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson have used racist, Nazi-like language to stir up fear of Syrian refugees among white racist Americans.
Here’s what Trump recently said, courtesy of Yahoo! News:
“We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. And some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule,” Trump said. “And certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.”
Yahoo News asked Trump whether this level of tracking might require registering Muslims in a database or giving them a form of special identification that noted their religion. He wouldn’t rule it out.
“We’re going to have to — we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump said when presented with the idea. “We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”
Here’s what Carson recently said, courtesy of NBC News:
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Thursday suggested that concerns about Syrian refugees in the United States are akin to a parent’s concerns about “mad dogs.”
“If there’s a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably going to put your children out of the way,” he said during remarks in Mobile, Alabama. “[It] doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs, by any stretch of the imagination, but you’re putting your intellect into motion and you’re thinking ‘How do I protect my children? At the same time, I love dogs and I’m gonna call the humane society and hopefully they can come take this dog away and create a safe environment once again.'”
Any Democrat who voted for the anti-Syrian refugee legislation has effectively sided with right-wing racists like Donald Trump and Ben Carson, who are using Nazi Germany-like language in opposition to allowing Syrian refugees to enter the United States. Supporting requiring that Muslims have special identification is eerily reminiscent of the Nazis forcibly tattooing identification numbers onto Jewish people in concentration camps, and comparing Syrian refugees fleeing war and terrorism to mad dogs is eerily reminiscent of Nazi propaganda comparing Jewish people to rats (in fact, at least one British newspaper, the Daily Mail, actually compared Syrian refugees to rats). Normally, I’m not a fan of Nazi comparisons, but, if there’s actual historical context behind a Nazi comparison, then I’m all for it.
One last thing, I find it ironic that the number of House Democrats who voted for the anti-Syrian refugee bill (47) equals the number of Senate Republicans who signed a letter to Iranian leaders in an attempt to undermine diplomacy in efforts to stop a nuclear deal designed to keep Iran from producing nuclear weapons (47), as well as the percentage of Americans that 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney claimed were dependent on the government (47).
The Progressive Midwesterner 