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By Zepp<\/a> <\/span> on Monday, June 18, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 18th<\/sup> 2018<\/i><\/p>\n

Is there anyone reading this who approves of taking children from undocumented immigrants and throwing them in concentration camps? If so, please stop reading now, and go throw yourself into the intake of a running jet engine, or try flossing with a running chainsaw. I don\u2019t much care what happens to you, as long as I don\u2019t have to put up with you. Go. Now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt Can\u2019t Happen Here\u201d is, of course, the title of a 1935 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis. It was a time of Huey Long and Father Coughlin, when American plutocrats openly admired fascism and strove to push America in the same direction as Germany and Italy. Both the Presidents Bush and Trump are descendants of the 1930s proto-Nazis who thought Hitler offered a better way.<\/p>\n

It was also a time when Americans viewed themselves as independent and freer than any people on the face of the Earth* (well, the 35% of Americans who could own property if they wanted, eat at any restaurant, or run for office). It was a time when the notion that big business was a friend to Americans and would treat them fairly was rapidly losing ground, and both fascism and communism were gaining ground amongst working Americans with promises of decent income and respect.<\/p>\n

Lewis understood that in times of deep national crisis, Americans could be their own worst enemy, more than willing, desperate to follow the siren songs of every demagogue that came down the path. And of course, quite a few did.<\/p>\n

As horrible as the current situation is, I do see one ray of hope. I\u2019ve never seen the American public so outraged, and it includes segments of the population that I believed had simply abandoned all ethics and decency in order to follow Trump. Wide swatches of the fundamentalist Christian movement, which had just last month been 80% pro-Trump, are not only breaking with Trump over the incredible cruelty of his immigration policy. Two governors, in Massachusetts and Colorado, have respectively pulled their National Guard or mandated they not participate in the \u2018jail the children\u2019 movement. Every single living first lady, including Melania, have condemned this.<\/p>\n

Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, America\u2019s tag-team of five-and-dime fascists, openly chortled over how effective truly vicious cruelty could be in dealing with the relatively trivial problem of immigrants sneaking in. Jeff Sessions, America\u2019s most despicable Southern-fried pixie, described the Trump policy as \u201czero-tolerance policy that leads to the high rate of family separations as a method to deter immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steal their children and throw them in the camps. His answer to the immigration problem is to turn American into a place no decent, sane person would ever want to visit. It\u2019s an effective policy; immigration to Germany plummeted in the late 30s.<\/p>\n

Trump tried to play all sides of the issue, first declaring that throwing children in concentration camps would continue until he got his silly wall. Then he said it was a Democratic Law that was causing it, and his hands were tied. (Apparently he forgot that the policy\u2014not law, policy\u2014of jailing the kids began just six weeks ago). Most recently, he sent his forlorn flack, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen\u00a0Nielsen out to explain that America wasn\u2019t throwing children in camps. They shipped the Gestapo head in all the way from New Orleans, where she presumably was setting fire to kittens, to fill in for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who apparently couldn\u2019t take another day of discussing the matter with the press.<\/p>\n

Sanders is the most shameless and souless liar in America, and it would be nice to assume that she finally reached the bottom, ethically and spiritually. Hell, maybe she has. She wouldn\u2019t be the first fundie this week to go, \u201cHey, Trump ain\u2019t no Jesus! He\u2019s a dirtbag!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump today declared America would not become a \u201cmigrant camp.\u201d Silly bastard doesn\u2019t realize the United States have ALWAYS been a migrant camp. Nearly all of us are from somewhere else. Trump\u2019s grandfather was from Germany, and opened a whore house in Canada. Then came to America to inflict his predatory capitalism on Americans. A fine family tradition.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many members of the Trump administration have asked themselves, \u201cSuppose it was my kids? How would I feel if they were forcibly taken from me, and tossed into a camp where they were not to be told how long they would be there, or if they would ever see their parents again? If the children cried, nobody could comfort them or even touch them. Apparently the administration isn\u2019t even keeping track of what kids belong to what parents.\u00a0 Have they discarded the notion that some of these kids might survive the camps?<\/p>\n

An audiotape came out today that had one of the concentration camp guards mocking a childrenfor crying. Said guard sounds like someone who needs to be run over by a bus. Slowly. Repeatedly. While an orchestra plays. He can conduct, if he wants.<\/p>\n

But Sanders probably just didn\u2019t want to put up with those uppity reporters. I\u2019m quite certain Trump is looking for internment facilities for the media, CNN in particular.<\/p>\n

Or maybe she realized the Trump administration is doomed, and is just mailing it in now.<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t matter. Once she\u2019s out of the White House, she\u2019ll spend the rest of her life trying not to be recognized whenever she goes outside. That seems a reasonable fate.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trumpkins need to beware. Autocrats like Trump always end up turning on their own, and before America finally rids itself of him, he\u2019ll have a fair bit of opportunity to do just that. Just ask Jeff Sessions. (OK, Sessions richly deserves abuse. But still).<\/p>\n

Trumpkins, the next children Trump throws into the maw of his vicious Gulag monument to his ego might be yours. History makes that a near certainty. Especially if Americans wait too long, and this dissolute monster consolidates his power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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