The Turning Point
Yes, we are a divided nation. Democrats and Republicans disagree on just about everything, from protecting the environment to funding education, from affordable healthcare to a woman’s right to choose.
But when it comes to seeing innocent children kept in cages – sick, filthy, infested with lice, completely traumatized – this should have been the moment when every American citizen, regardless of political affiliation, came together to yell, ”No, not in my country!”
Despite everything we disagree on, this should have been the one thing that united us, even if it was the only thing we might ever agree on ever again. Protecting innocent children from living in totally inhumane conditions should have been the one cause that prompted all Americans to raise their voices in one long, sustained, and unified scream of outrage without any thought of political agendas.
If the Trump-humpers want to defend their pussy-grabbing racist, the man who lies to them repeatedly, the man who brags about assaulting women, the man who insults our allies while he kisses Putin’s ass, that’s their prerogative.
But to ignore the plight of these migrant children in order to support their “pResident’s” tactic of imprisoning children, in order to scare brown people into not coming here, is beyond despicable.
We’ve seen this coming for a while now. We are still a divided nation, but we are no longer divided into Democrats and Republicans, but into people with common decency and those who have none; people who have a moral compass and those who will blindly fall into lockstep behind what is so blatantly immoral, there is no middle ground.
If you can stand with Trump on this issue, if you can defend treating children worse than you would find acceptable for a stray dog, if you can rattle off excuses like “they shouldn’t have come here in the first place – this is their own fault”, if you can sleep at night knowing that frightened, totally innocent children are being abused and emotionally scarred for life, you have abandoned every scrap of humanity you might have ever possessed.
This was indeed the turning point – the point at which any refusal to do the right thing by standing up for what is unquestionably moral and right – marks you forever as being devoid of values, principles, morals, and a soul.
If you call yourself a Christian, if you believe in God, you might look upon all of this as a test – and guess who failed.
The great irony here is that when Hillary described Trump supporters as “deplorable”, it’s turned out to be the most polite thing anyone can say about them.
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on their lack of courage in presenting viable solutions to our long-standing issues relating both to refugees and immigrants. They have stone-walled even serious discussion on these problems for decades.
I've always suspected that's because wealthy owners of the GOP benefit from the existence of millions of illegal migrants and immigrants in dozens of sectors of our economy. That fact keeps wages and benefits depressed for all Americans, an effect they love.
Therefore, those rich beneficiaries have pushed contradictory dialogues through the years to keep the issue in deadlock - a technique also loved by Putin.
Exactly why they've allowed Trump to swing policy execution to the extreme against immigrants, I do not understand. It may well be they're holding their noses for a while simply to gather in and solidify more xenophobic haters into their fold.
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