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Letter to the editor:

The news media portray members of the American Nazi Party as ultra-right conservatives. As a conservative myself, Nazis have no part in our movement!

Nazis are members of the liberal progressive political movement in America. Nazis seem more like members of the Socialist Party and their governing policies more resemble those of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, where the state would regulate and control almost every aspect of your life. That’s not being conservative!

Nazis believe in a white supremacist ideology. Conservatives believe that we were created by our God with equal unalienable rights. Our rights come from above and cannot be taken by any government. Any government big enough to bestow rights is big enough to take them away.

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Nazis and liberal progressives seem to believe that we were not created by God! Racism, white supremacy and even the Holocaust are an extension of believing in evolution. Evolution teaches that we evolved from lower animals, therefore it is logical to believe that different races of humans also evolved superior to others. In Nazi Germany, the government declared Jewish people “non-humans” and therefore had the power to take their rights, property and very lives away.

The symbol the Nazis chose is that of a broken cross, the swastika. Most conservatives revere the cross of Jesus.

Don’t lump the Nazis and conservatives together. We have nothing in common!

Jerry Fennell; Grand Rapids, Mich.

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