3 September 2016: Our choice as Americans

We Americans have a choice on November 8.

We can choose the traditional path of democracy, illustrated by President George Washington in 1790:

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it was the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily, the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.  US Library of Congress

Or we can choose the path of nationalism and bigotry, illustrated by another world leader in 1933:

The National Government will therefore regard it as its first and supreme task to restore to the German people unity of mind and will. It will preserve and defend the foundations on which the strength of our nation rests. It will take under its firm protection Christianity as the basis of our morality, and the family as the nucleus of our nation and our state. Standing above estates and classes, it will bring back to our people the consciousness of its racial and political unity and the obligations arising therefrom. It wishes to base the education of German youth on respect for our great past and pride in our old traditions. It will therefore declare merciless war on spiritual, political and cultural nihilism. Germany must not and will not sink into Communist anarchy.  Adolf Hitler, "Appeal to the German People" 

If you are not afraid for the future of the United States, I don't think you are paying attention.