Trump has made his repeated promise to deport 20,000,000 minorities and foreigners a central feature of his campaign. What does Trump intend to do with them? History provides the key. And what history? The history of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, when another great power, seeking a cheap way to victimize a large part of its population to benefit the majority race, also started a program of mass "deportation" of minorities, in order to provide its majority race with more land, more money, more of everything, at the expense of the others. There was a word for this: lebensraum, or "living space," the notion that the majority race deserved what it craved so much that it justified any abuse of those considered to be lesser humans. Hitler proposed to "deport" Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and eventually all other non "Aryan" residents of the Third Reich. The Nazis soon discovered that deportation was impossible; it was too expensive for Germany, and oth...
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I wouldn't bet on it, but I think they are losing steam. We'll see.
This is the problem with building your movement with geezers instead of college students. They just don't have enough energy to turn cop cars over and run away from tear gas. Pretty soon, they're ready to go back to their canasta games.
About the current healthcare debate, here is a brief vignette to share with you:
“Last weekend, the healthcare controversy came to my door when friends from South Florida arrived for a visit (…) My former neighbors and now dear friends had an appointment at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Her cancer is treatable and manageable, but she suffers from fatigue and takes mega doses of Percocet and morphine to relieve pain. Last week, she and her husband checked into a Marriot Inn near the clinic for days of blood tests, X-Rays, MRIs, and consultations (…) On Monday morning, just before their return trip to Jacksonville for more diagnostics, the hospital called their cell phone: Their insurance carrier had not “pre-authorized” the tests.”
The full story here.
Those SEIU folks sure are insane.
Thanks for the comment. I fully agree with you, and I have stated numerous times here that I am deeply afraid that, before this is over, we are going to see some truly ugly incidents growing out of the current conservative sense of entitlement to violence.
I feel, however, that these tantrums are already starting to bore the mainstream press, and they are too obviously out of any real proportion to their alleged causes; consequently, what seemed to be having a massive effect on political decisions just a few days ago is already fading.
Sad to say, if and when a real health care bill is passed, it will only serve to further inflame the wingnuts' deep sense of injury, and although their behavior may prove politically impotent, it might continue to build until some really horrible violent confrontations are inevitable.