Sunday, July 07, 2019

I Surely Don't Get It

One of my friends who loves there country deeply and as many others do as well. I am not sure if he wrote it or he copy and paste from someone else.
The comment was thick and thin for and against.
But he was called unamerican, for his views.
As many know I am not thrilled with our current administration of Trump. But I sure wouldn't call his supporters Un american or Un patriotic.
I remember reading in school and here of Un american activities.  There was even committe for UN AMERICAN ACTIVITIES and disagree with any policy of United States isn't either un patriotic or un american
The only thing I can come up for either one would be SUBVERT ACTIVITIES which would fall under both Un Patriotic and or Un American.
At time we or as individual when our government steps out of line we need to call "Bullshit" and when our country is in the right say "Job Well Done"

First time I voted was in Washington state in 1978 and it wasn't a year president ran, and I called on the ballot they had both Communism and a Nazi party 
I didn't vote for either party and both of these lean to far one way. 

I decided to copy and share what my friend MIGHT of wrote... "There are tanks in the nation’s capital and concentration camps on its border. The slide of this nation into a nearly unrecognizable state continues unabated. Donald Trump is recreating America in his own image: an abominable one.
He brags about trading valentines with the ruthless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, saying at a political rally in September:
“I was really being tough. And so was he. And we’d go back and forth. And then we fell in love, O.K.? No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they’re great letters. We fell in love. But you know what? Now they’ll say: ‘Donald Trump said they fell in love. How horrible. How horrible is that? So unpresidential.’”
According to Human Rights Watch, North Korea under Kim not only “restricts all civil and political liberties, including freedom of expression, assembly, association and religion,” it systematically extracts “forced, unpaid labor from its citizens,” and “women in North Korea suffer a range of sexual and gender-based abuses” that include “rape and other sexual violence and torture in detention facilities, sexual exploitation, or forced marriage of North Korean women in China, and sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination.”

 And this says nothing of the hundreds of people Kim is thought to have had executed since coming to power in 2011.
And this is the man that the president of the United States brags about being in love with.
Last month Trump joked with Russia’s Vladimir Putin about getting “rid of journalists.”
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 28 journalists have been killed in Russia since Putin took office in 2000.
Last week in Osaka, Japan, Trump said of the Saudi crown prince: “It’s an honor to be with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, a friend of mine, a man who has really done things in the last five years in terms of opening up Saudi Arabia.”
Let’s be clear: That friend is believed to have ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. And, murder may in fact be too antiseptic a word. Turkish officials claim that after Khashoggi was killed, his body was hacked up with a bone saw, then disposed of.
Not only has Trump never delivered a full-throated condemnation of the Saudi leader, he plans to reward the kingdom with more arms sales unless Congress is able to stop him.
Why does the American president have such an affinity, a fetish even, for the world’s dictators while at the same time spurning many of America’s traditional allies? And how does this turn to the darkness re position this country in the annals of history?  

I believe that it speaks to a blindness, or more precisely, an indifference to cruelty. This also crops up in domestic policy, where the indifference is particularly acute when those who suffer are somehow other: black or brown, female or trans, Muslim or migrant.
How else could this administration have executed for so long its zero-tolerance approach to family separation of immigrants and asylum seekers? I don’t believe in open borders, but I do believe in humane borders. I do not believe that a parent seeking asylum — which is still legal in this country, it bears repeating — should have a child ripped from his or her arms. I don’t believe that people — including children — should be caged like animals and deprived of basic human necessities and basic human dignity.
What is happening at our border is unconscionable, a violation of basic human rights, a complete moral violation. And yet the president on Thursday will make a mockery of the country’s freedom celebration by turning it into a muscle-flexing political pep rally.
Trump will likely spend millions on his vanity spectacle just weeks after his administration argued in court that immigrant children didn’t need to be provided soap and toothbrushes.
Stop thinking that this is only about partisanship or polarization. It’s the cruelty, stupid. It has always been about cruelty: racial cruelty, gender cruelty, religious cruelty. It has always been about bending the rest of America, the rest of reality, really, into subordination to the white supremacist patriarchy.

If the emerging culture of the world has to be put under boot for the established culture to maintain power, so be it. This is the white supremacist mantra; this is the Trump message.
Trump cares nothing about the suffering of racial minorities here — other than to increase the pain — nor does he care about the suffering of nonwhite people abroad.
There is a through line in Trump behavior, and it runs directly through his perception of white cultural dominance.
There, I said it. And I’m going to continue to say it.
I know that this may read as redundant. I worry about as much every time I begin to write. But I also know that history is sitting in judgment, that when this dark era draws to a close, an accounting must be made, a record made. None of us will be immune.
The questions will come without room for equivocation or adjustment: Where were you when the bodies floated in the Rio Grande? What did you say when this president bragged about assaulting women and defended men accused of doing the same? What was your reaction when he saw very good people among the Nazis? Where was your outrage when thousands died in Puerto Rico?
What did you do? What did you say? And for others in my profession, what did you write?
I plan to say, or have my work say, that I never faltered, that it never became normal to me, that my heart bled as well as my pen.
What will you say?"

Coffee is on

18 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:52 AM

    Brave of you in some ways to post, but ever so right. Almost everyone outside of the US views Trump as appalling, both for the US and the World. Return America to its greatness? When was it so great for ordinary people? Not for black people in the 50s and 60s. Not for those in the 60s, 70s and 80s who against the war against Vietnam. Not for those in 50s and 60s who were suspected of being anti American because they wanted social justice. Our politicians are not so great, but Trump is truly awful.

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  2. What is it they say about how Injustice prospers? It happens when good people don't speak up. Way to go Peppy. Another "good person" just spoke up.

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  3. I agree with every word Dora and with Andrew above. Let's hope it comes to an end sooner rather than later ✨

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  4. I think the entire political system needs new people in it. So many of the politicians are old and out of touch with regular people.

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  5. I agree with Dora and Andrew too. It will not be easy to repair the damage Trump has done to our country, at home and abroad. Let's hope we get the chance.

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  6. I suspect the United States will see another Civil War. We won't have to worry about outside forces destroying us, we'll do it ourselves.

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  7. I say I am glad to be Canadian and I worry about the state of affairs for my dear American friends.

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  8. Dora,you know what I think about all of this. We must continue to speak up.

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  9. Hari OM
    I applaud this all the way - sadly, we have ridiculous political sitations brewing here in the UK too... YAM xx

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  10. I agree with Mary's comment!

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  11. In the end, I think the only think UN American, is not allowing free speech and the right to choose. Isn't that what the country is founded on? Liberty?

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  12. I just want to say that tomorrow is Monday...

    Have a wonderful summer

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  13. I think that was probably copy/pasted as I read it elsewhere, and probably not from the same person you saw it from. We live in "interesting" times.

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  14. I think we all agree. Trump - in my eyes - is just a big baby and I have no clue how he made it to this position and stay in there so long... He makes a fool of himself (- and with that of America? As a German I may say this -) too often...

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  15. Trump, like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, is a narcissist. Narcissists are only ever interested in something: themselves. And narcissists with access to money and power are the worst combination ever. Thanks for posting.

    Greetings from London.

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  16. What you have written is so true and so heart breaking. He is destroying our country piece by piece. Dismantling all the good treaties, creating enemies within our allies, and siding with all the bad guys. I hope and pray he is gone next year.

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  17. Many people are called un-American because they criticize the country they love but know is not perfect. Those who criticize them don't "get" that it's possible to want something you love to get better and pointing out its problems -- rather than pretending they don't exist -- is one step towards doing so.

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  18. I agree with everything you wrote about Thump vis a vis the Saudis, groping women without their consent, Puerto Rico, cruelty to immigrant children, treatment of the British ambassador etc etc.

    But the big flaw is in-built in the USA political system. In most democracies, all political power rests in the elected Parliament, NOT with the Head of State. In the USA, if Thump wants, Parliament can be overridden in a heart beat.

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