OK, so a stern note of warning.  This blog is the home of an extremely pissed off, worried, slightly demented, cantankerous 68 year old Jewish grandpa who is seeing the country go to hell in a handbasket.  If this is unappealing to you, move your ass to another blog.

Today's pisser:  Social media postings that say, "Take America Back."  Who is taking back America from whom?  First of all, I didn't know the country was even available for retrieval.  Are the Native Americans finally deciding that it's time to show the damn Europeans that they have no business here?

Maybe it's the American bison who have been quietly reproducing so they can get back at the Native Americans for trying to kill them off.  Perhaps the Brooklyn Dodgers are making their ghostly presence known to retake their rightful location instead of in that Communist Los Angeles (and is that really part of America anyway?)

Or, and you knew it was coming, is it those who are certain the United States of America is no place for Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans, LGBTs, Asians, Jews (I snuck that in), or anyone else that really, really doesn't belong here.  Because, after all, nobody wants to be a minority, and they really, really don't want to become a minority.

Well, all I have to say is, that as a Jew, my predecessors and I have been a minority for oh 5,000 years or so, and you kind of get used to it.  Sure, we don't get to have Christmas trees but we substitute Chinese food.  We've been excluded from neighborhoods, country clubs, hotels, but so what - we just built our own.  The KKK has been after us forever, but we definitely dress better than they do.  The Nazis killed 6 million of us, and yet I'm still here to kvetch.

All joking aside (and I rarely put joking aside), the parallels with 1920s Germany are so striking, so frightening, so absolutely mind blowing, that being pissed off isn't enough.  For the first time in my 68 years, I think I am about to become a political activist.  I'll let you know my progress.