For generations, Americans have wondered how the people of Germany could have elected Adolf Hitler and especially, how they could continue to support him. They wondered how they could live with themselves for Hitler's treatment of the Jews, including the concentration camps.
Well, that mystery has been solved. America elected a psychotic white supremacist, and according to the professionals, could re-elect this Homegrown Hitler in November, despite everything they know: the transparent lies, the hourly corruption and daily destruction of everything the US has said it stood for.
They've found it in their hearts to utterly ignore America's concentration camps, where the breaking up of families, the rapes and other abuses have continued and grown larger and worse.
The policies of sending people who apply for political asylum back to the countries they escaped because of violence and oppression have resulted in hundreds of these applicants being imprisoned or killed upon their return--including at least 138 murdered in El Salvador.
Other applicants have been sent to dangerous Mexican border towns--some 60,000 non-Mexicans in just the past year, including 1600 children. Hundreds of women and children have also been shipped to Guatamala.
Yet when Homemade Hitler's administration announced rules late this summer that would essentially legalize concentration camps for undocumented immigrant families, it was not a shiny enough object to capture public attention, let alone hold it for more than an Internet minute.
The rule change was pretty much of an afterthought anyway because the concentration camps have existed for years, despite a brief public outcry. In many cases they are for-profit concentration camps, which not even Hitler was able to imagine.
Trump famously said that even if he shot someone dead on Fifth Avenue he would get away with it. Would that include death camps?
On Turning 73 in 2019: Living Hope
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*This is the second of two posts from June 2019, on the occasion of my 73rd
birthday. Both are about how the future looks at that time in the world,
and f...
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