Hello Reform voters! And welcome to story time.
Once upon a time there was a very naughty Austrian boy called Naughty A.
The Great War finished in 1918. Trade embargos and sanctions were imposed on Germany and the poor people in Germany were very angry.
Naughty A knew these poor people were very angry and he knew he could manipulate these poor people into making himself very powerful.
After being elected the head of the German Workers Party he changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party to try and trick the poor people into thinking they were a socilaist party that really cared about the poor people.
What sort of idiot would fall for that? And what sort of idiot would still believe things like that almost one hundred years after it happened?
Naughty A used divisive and hateful politics, saying he would fix the broken country. He blamed minorities for all the problems in the land.
Jewish people, gay people, disabled people who couldn't work, Romani gypsies, and other minorities.
He promised the poor people he would "Make Germany great again" and that they would "Take their country back" and his supporters put lots of flags everywhere to intimidate and scare people whilst they called themselves proud patriots.
Now the newspapers in Germany were owned by very rich people and they knew that if the poor people were listening to Naughty A they wouldn't notice that the newspaper owners were very rich and part of the problem.
So the newspaper owners became complicit in enabling and facilitating the divisive politics of Naughty A and his party.
The newspaper owners were so successful that lots and lots of the poor people began to support Naughty A and his party.
Does this sound familiar to you, children...?
That's because it is.
Ever claim, every smear, every lie that is hurled today at Muslims, immigrants, queer people, and trans people was used against Jewish people and other minorities by Naughty A and his horrible, horrible friends.