Tuesday, June 19, 2018

A test of your humanity


Here's the test.

Are you opposed to the Trump policy of separating children from families at the United States border?

It's that simple.

What the Administration is doing is monstrous, a violation of human rights akin to early Nazi actions against the Jews. They're not only terrorizing children and hurting families, but they're lying about it, scapegoating the Democrats and the families themselves, and ignoring the wishes of the vast majority of Americans.

Republicans have always called themselves the party of "family values", "Christians" who "value life", but they have been complicit in every facet of this nightmare. A MAJORITY of Republican voters APPROVE of ICE's actions. Let that sink in. A pollster calls your home, describes what's happening, and you tell them that you APPROVE. That says something about the Republicans and their "morality".

If you can justify this in your own mind. If you can argue that they deserve it. Or that they're criminals. Or that they're responsible for this atrocity committed against themselves, you have failed the basic test of your humanity: understanding, empathy and compassion. If you do not oppose this, you have embraced evil.

It's that simple.

This action will go down in history alongside the Trail of Tears, slavery, Japanese-American Internment, and syphilis experiments on black men.

We are monsters if we allow this to continue.


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