People Who Think Rich Iott is a Nazi are Nazis
I want to start off by making my political leanings clear: I think both parties are destroying this country so severely that if I told my idealistic High School Self how bad things have gotten, young-me would never have believed it. Over the years I have changed, however, from a staunch Republican to someone who believes that putting Republicans into power will fast-track this country into the next Great Depression and start a class war. In the current equation I see Democrats as the slightly-lesser of two really terrible evils.
But when I see articles like this one suggesting Rich Iott is an anti-semite and Nazi sympathizer because he dresses in a Waffen S.S. uniform during WWII re-enactments, I really want to throw up. People do Civil War re-enactments all the time. Getting dressed up in a Confederate uniform for the purposes of re-enacting a battle does not make you a Confederate sympathizer or a racist. We don’t punish actors who play Nazis in the movies.
Rich Iott is nothing more than a history geek. Suggesting a photo of him wearing a Nazi uniform from a WWII re-enactment says anything at all about his political or social leanings is as ridiculous as saying we should be suspicious that the Governor of California might actually be a time traveling cyborg who has come back from the future to murder Sarah Connor. It’s as ridiculous as saying the people who are calling Rich Iott a Nazi, are themselves Nazis, so I might as well say that.
