Trump’s fake campaign social experiment revealed a lot.
You do not need to be a historian or a history professor to see the similarities between Donald Trump’s demagoguery and that of Adolf Hitler’s. However, what is really scary about Trump’s political rise is the seemingly very naïve way ordinary Americans are positively responding to Trump’s hateful ideology as demonstrated in this simple social experiment conducted by Dustin Wynn.
Wynn explained that he used the promise of monetary reward to entice participants:
“The twist is that they’ll get paid for each Muslim they catch, just like how the Nazis were paid to kill the Jews.”
Wynn, posing as a Trump campaigner, approached several strangers on San Diego streets and asking them to give Muslims special tracking badges in return for $40. These badges were supposed to track potential terrorists.
The video of the social experiment was posted on YouTube last March 16 and it has become viral and now almost has 100,000 views just a few days after it was uploaded.
You can watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbqI3yzU3sI
What may seem to be a simple social experiment revealed a complex socio-political and economic undercurrent in the United States. It is a similar political undercurrent that was present when Hitler and the Nazis were just starting to rise into power.
A parallel can be drawn between Hitler’s pre-Holocaust persecutions of the Jews, requiring them to wear identifying yellow badges with the Star of David, and Trump’s idea of requiring Muslim refugees and immigrants to also wear badges.
Dustin Wynn’s social experiment was based on Donald Trump’s previous statements that he would require Muslims in the United States to wear badges so that they can be identified and monitored.
It could be argued that the potential monetary reward was the main reason why most of those whom Wynn approached agreed to participate in a Muslim “witch hunt.”
However, it cannot be denied that there is indeed a real possibility that a demagogue like Trump could be elected with the support of otherwise non-racist Americans who can easily be swayed by fear-mongering and propaganda.
This could be the start of Nazi-like fascism in the United States.
Featured image via YouTube.
