As Trump’s layers of racism has been striped over the years, what has emerged is the foundation upon which his racism arises from. He believes he has superior genes, springs from superior stock. He believes in the ‘racehorse theory’.
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Evil is hard to confront. Yet a Trump administration lawyer has disputed in court whether detained migrant children are entitled to toothbrushes and soap. This breaks my heart. This level of cruelty and evil sends a chill up my spine.
We are in the midst of a disinformation pandemic. I often have conversations with Trump supporters, but their idea of a debate is to send me a link, oftentimes emanating from Russia.
It had dawned on German citizens after WWII they were enablers; they realized the deadly consequences of their silence, which served to lubricate the wheels of mass executions.
We had a secret band of stormtroopers unleashed in this country, employing tactics eerily similar to Hitler’s personal security force, the SS, evidenced by the swat teams Trump has assembled in Portland: peaceful demonstrators are being tear-gassed and whisk away in unmarked cars by unmarked, masked agents.
Dr. King only became truly dangerous when he started to speak about world-wide institutional racism structures designed to protect the entrenched power, when he talked about empowering the working poor... Two months later he was assassinated.
Disinformation divides us, it serves up scapegoats for whatever ails us. Scapegoats act as smokescreens to prevent us from seeing the real source of our anxiety, our poverty, our disenfranchisement.
We can’t surrender to this Trump divide. We have to roll up our sleeves and go into the bunkers and engage in civil, political discourse. People are innately good, and our country’s healing can begin when we tap into that goodness—all the while cleansing our airwaves of the Russian memes.
The Trump administration is now targeting kids with cancer, terminal illnesses, sabotaging their lifelines in some cruel revenge agenda. Who even conceives of such cruelty—I suspect it is Stephen Miller, Trump’s immigration consigliere.
In continuing our lively discussion on gun control, one element we have not discussed is the factor of misogyny. From the Handmaids Tale: “Someone once said men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
The Russian troll factory was designed to sabotage our democracy; their intent was to divide us, to create racial disharmony, and to elect Donald Trump. They have infected our airwaves and this infestation disables honest dialogue because the conversations are saturated with false data, disinformation.
Well, another day, another shooting, and another recitation of ‘thoughts and prayers’ by our Republican Congressmen and Representatives. Our administration’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said now is not the time to discuss gun violence. Didn’t he say that after the previous shooting?
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