Charles Pierce"I Don't Need to 'Understand' Anyone Who Still Supports This President"

[kpete]

I Don't Need to 'Understand' Anyone Who Still Supports This President*
What his administration* is doing to these migrant children is a national disgrace.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE

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What in the hell are we doing calling ourselves civilized, let alone a free nation?

The one thing that animated him was discussing his “photos,” as he called the family drawings. He introduced “mi familia,” pointing to the figures of his parents, brother and younger sister. Staring intensely at the sketch of his father, with a slight mustache and a cap, he repeated his name out loud again and again. It was “just me and him” on the trip from Honduras, he told Janice one night as he lay in bed shuffling the pictures, taking turns looking at one and then the other.

“He holds onto the two pictures for dear life,” Janice said, through tears. “It’s heart-wrenching.”… When sirens pierced the quiet of the night last week, José’s eyes widened with fear. “La violencia, la violencia,” he said. The family assured him that it was not violence; it was fire trucks.

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So, thanks to this president* and his 63 million enablers, and his acolytes in the media, and all the people who didn’t care enough to stop him in 2016, and all the people who don’t care enough to stop him now, we have our own American variations on the Tuam babies and the Magdalene Laundries.

Children are being punished, cruelly and mindlessly, for the perceived sins of their parents and, because we are a secular republic, it is not being done in the name of God but, rather, on the behalf of everybody in this country. That does not make this better. Not by a longshot


https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a21239446/trump-separate-families-child-migrant-foster-homes/

[mcar]

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Here's the opening:

The New York Times had a story on Friday that should’ve brought shame and derision upon anyone who voted for the racist monster in the White House, and upon the racist monster that the other racist monster installed at the head of the Department of Justice. The United States government is now committing human rights atrocities within its own borders and against the most vulnerable people it can find. I don’t need to “understand,” much less take seriously, anyone who still supports this president* and his administration* because, if you do, you’ve taken the idea of America and run battery acid through its veins.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. I boldly agree.

Not by a longshot.

[Achilleaze]

3. republicans are pissing on children, breaking up families

and then they lie to our faces and claim that republicanism is all about some imaginary "family values" that they themselves are total freaking hypocrites about.

Why do republicans HATE children and families?

[beachbum bob]

4. We must act..we must register young voters, we must vote

Handwringing and complaining doesn't win us anything.

[calimary]

6. Indeed we MUST, beachbum bob.

We do indeed. This will be hard work, and we need ALL hands, and NO excuses.

It will be a heavy push. He won’t go quietly.

[beachbum bob]

8. My wife and I registered 1000 voters in 2008 for obama

We will do the same 2018 for our local congressional candidate. No excuses not to do the work if you want your country back

[world wide wally]

5. How much further can this motherfucker push before this country justifiably explodes?

[smirkymonkey]

9. That's what I would like to know.

Because personally, I am about to explode. This just breaks my heart. I bounce between anger and sadness and there is too little hope in between.

[radius777]

7. The deplorables and their enablers must pay a price

for Trump and his evil deeds.

You don't get to spit in the faces of PoC, immigrants and others and think you can get away with it.

Getting rid of Trump alone doesn't get rid of Trumpism, which must be confronted directly, as Hillary did when she called them out during the campaign and awhile ago with her speech in India.

The Dem party is not the party of FDR, but the party of WJC and BHO, with a diverse coalition that draws most of its votes from metro areas, surrounding suburbs and rural PoC.

Stand up for those voters, give them a reason to turn out, and Dems win easily.