Fascist Consciousness Begins With Deportation Dreams

 

Mass deportation is not a cure, it’s the beginning of collapse.

By Sean Ash

There’s a meme going around that says mass deportation will solve everything. Housing, the NHS, school places, overcrowding, even rape and terror attacks. Some people read that and nod along. They feel angry, squeezed, ignored, and they want someone to blame. They want a single answer to the problems they see around them. And the image tells them exactly what they want to hear. Remove the foreigners, and everything will be fixed.

But history has already taught us where this thinking leads. And those who share it, even unknowingly, are not pointing to a solution. They are pointing to the beginning of something far more dangerous.

In Nazi Germany, this idea didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with evictions. With neighbours being dragged from their homes and their windows smashed. With lists of names. With whispered plans to send Jews somewhere else, anywhere else. The public was told it would solve everything. That it would restore order, open up housing, free up jobs. That the people being removed didn’t belong, didn’t contribute, didn’t value the nation’s way of life.

So they were deported. Not in quiet or kindness, but in trains, packed so tightly people could not sit or breathe. Families were torn apart. Children died on the journey. They were taken from towns and villages, loaded into wagons, and transported like cattle. Some were sent across borders by rail, others by truck, some by ship. The logistical machinery of the Nazi regime became a network of forced movement. Trains that could have carried food carried human beings. Boats that might have delivered medicine were used to exile the unwanted. Deportation was not a humane process. It was a state-funded, industrial-scale human purge. And it did not lead to national healing. It led to ruin.

Many of the people forced out of Germany were pushed into surrounding countries that did not have the infrastructure to absorb them. This caused breakdowns in neighbouring economies, led to refugee crises, social collapse, famine, and eventually, war. Mass deportation was not the end of Germany’s problems. It was the spark that lit the match across Europe. It exposed how quickly fear can spread and how easily entire populations can be convinced that cruelty is a form of justice.

Now we are watching people in Britain share an image that says the same thing. That if we get rid of a few million people, everything will be fine. That all our problems, our housing lists, our strained services, our fears and frustrations, will vanish if we just deport the right ones. And how do they imagine this happening? Boats. Planes. Trains. The exact same transportation methods used back then. The same logic. The same dehumanisation. This is not ordinary political thinking. This is fascist consciousness. And it spreads more easily than people realise.

You may not wear the uniform. You may not call yourself far right. You may believe you are simply being patriotic, or protective. But if you are repeating slogans about mass deportation, if you believe society will be cured by expelling minorities, if you think people born here or living here should be put on boats and planes and sent away, then what you are carrying is the same infection that once swept across Europe and cost millions of lives.

It is a sad thing what happened to the Jews. But it is also a historical fact. One we are meant to learn from. One we are meant to remember so that history does not repeat itself. If you find yourself saying the words “mass deportation” with enthusiasm, then it is time to look inward. Not with shame, but with awareness. Ask yourself why this idea feels comforting. Ask where you learned it. Ask who benefits from your fear. Because this isn’t the cure. This is how the sickness begins.

Deportation doesn’t just remove people. It removes workers. It removes care staff, NHS employees, builders, delivery drivers, cleaners, teachers, and neighbours. It removes mothers, fathers, children, families. It rips up communities and pretends that doing so won’t cost anything. But it will. It always does. Economies break when you remove the people who hold them up. Health services collapse when you remove the people who make them work. Societies decay when you reduce human beings to statistics and throw them away.

Those who are deported are not dropped off into comfort. They are dropped into war zones, dictatorships, famine, or lands where they no longer have homes. Some of them are born here and deported to countries they’ve never seen. Others are sent back to face persecution, torture, or death. And when that happens, it will not go quietly. There will be consequences. Political, military, financial, and moral. We will be blamed. We will be dragged in. We will bleed for it. All of us.

I’m not judging you if you shared that meme. I understand why it feels satisfying. I understand what it’s like to be angry, to feel neglected, to want answers. But I’m asking you to look deeper. You are being sold the same lie that Germans were sold in the 1930s. That salvation lies in removing people. But what you are being offered is not salvation. It is collapse.

We need more homes. We need a better NHS. We need safety, dignity, and fairness. But we won’t find any of that through the mass deportation of innocent people. What we’ll find is history repeating itself. And this time, there will be no excuse that we didn’t know where it leads. Replace “migrant” or “refugee” with “Jew” and we are back in 1930s Germany. Wake up.