Hatred Dress Up 10/13/2010
 
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            Richard Iott, the Republican Congressional candidate from Ohio has found himself in what most political candidates would consider a no-win situation with less than one month to go until the election.  It turns out that Iott, the all-American family man that he depicts himself as on his website has an unusual hobby of dressing up like a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a unit in the German army during World War II.  This Nazi group that he and his buddies took pleasure in mimicking has made him toxic enough to be eliminated from the “Young Guns” website headed by Reps Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan.  Eric Cantor even went so far as to repudiate Iott and his affinity for Nazis on Fox News Sunday, once he was pressed to do so by Rep Wasserman-Shultz. 

            The startling move by Cantor to reject Iott’s radically pro-Nazi stance was definitely out of the ordinary Republican tactic when confronted with a highly offensive and unpopular stance they hold.  Usually when faced with a rare spotlight being placed on one of their disgusting stances on issues that would make the country a more oppressive place to be for people that aren’t like them, the GOP blatantly and proudly confirms these views, or simply tells their supporters that its their opponents’ fault.  Many Americans buy into their stubborn strength when it comes to torture, perpetual mindless war, or rewarding the banking industry for destroying the economy, but when it comes to sympathizing with Nazis, the line is finally drawn. 

            Since Richard Iott seems to be new to the game of Republican politics, he pursued the normal protocol of standing by his anti-American views with blind strength, blaming others for being far too sensitive or ignorant on the subject.  He didn’t read the detailed exception to the stubbornness rule in the GOP handbook that states “when confronted with the unelectable position of supporting Nazism or denying the Holocaust, abort rule #1 which states; we’re right, and they’re weak & wrong!  It’s a wound that just won’t heal.”  In ignoring the exception, Iott called the Nazis he impersonates valiant and wrongfully judged by us today, virtually sealing his fate with the voters of Ohio’s 9th District as well as “Young Guns” leader Eric Cantor. 

            This entire disaster of a candidacy made me wonder, “why do some people enjoy dressing up like slave owners and Nazis with their old buddies on the weekends?”  Aren’t these guys grown ass men?  Adult men only dress up on Halloween to look at scantily clad women looking for an excuse to be a “sexy _______.”  When they take a moment out of their busy day, what causes them to daydream about times of oppression and hate to the point that they feel the need to recreate some of the worst moments in the world’s history?  We can easily say that they long for the good old days of blatant racism and hatred toward Black Americans being backed by inhumane laws, or we can call them anti-Semitic.  Regardless of the reasons for their hatred, I can’t figure out why they feel the need to play dress up and act like they are the vilest people in history. 

            There are many people with pretty dark, dangerous, and socially unapproved sexual fetishes.  These people enjoy their inclinations in secret with a fear that they will be discovered and ridiculed.  For some reason, Nazi apologists like Richard Iott and people that imagine the “glory” of slavery like South Carolina’s Senate President Glenn McConnell don’t feel the same shame.  Until they start receiving the ridicule and societal rejection for their misguided views on where the country should be, regardless of political affiliation, people like Iott will have an unreasonable pride and comfort in acting on their desires to become their murderous heroes. 

 
--JJJ
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