Six months.
That’s all it took for the Trump regime to make the move from kidnapping people on the street, to threatening to strip political enemies of citizenship, to selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp.
Six months.
And Republicans say that merch promoting the newly built Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is “going like hot cakes.”
Some detractors have called the camp Alligator Auschwitz, but this may not be the most accurate comparison. Not yet anyway. Because the death camps didn’t just appear; it took years of increasing brutality and degradation before they got to Auschwitz.
It began at Dachau.
I agree. But I think the frightening thing is while the US is at the forefront, fascism is rising more broadly. The UK designated Palestine Action a terrorist group and arrested 28 people the other day on charges of supporting a terrorist organization - a charge associated with imprisonment- for holding placards saying they denounce genocide and support Palestine Action. Netherlands head of state mentioned introducing a law whereby it will be a crime to help someone who is in the country illegally (i.e, an Anne Frank law). Canada, BC, and Ontario just passed bills where government officials can circumvent a whole bunch of regulations when they see fit. Our nation is still sending or selling supplies to Israel, who’s committing ethnic cleansing in plain sight.
I’m not just concerned about Americans being asleep at the wheel. I’m concerned about a lot more of the global population being asleep at the wheel. But chicken and the egg. Things wouldn’t have got this bad if people weren’t asleep at the wheel.
And I feel the rise of late-stage capitalism leading to fascism is strongly associated inaction and denial of climate change.
It made me feel something to see David Suzuki recently say that the fight against climate change has been lost and to hear many others say “this resonates, at least in part, with me.”
I’m not sure things will turn around until civilians do start fighting back and overthrow a government. I don’t know if it will happen in my lifetime or not. But I’m starting to think it might be a good idea to prepare for that, so that I’m ready and can contribute
I totally agree with everything you said here.
Maybe we all need to do a massive strike to demand severe sanctions against Israël and that they be put under a tutor of some kind.
This may be anecdotal, but it may also be a canary in a coalmine.
I have seen a civilian population tear down its president and vice-president. Peacefully, and just before an election. It took months of activism. Weeks of protest and a 1-day general strike.
Look up Guatemala, 2015. Otto Perez Molina. #noletoca.
This was underreported, I think. Three presidents later, therr is Bernardo Arevalo. He is a president whose legacy hearkens back to before their Civil War, after WWII, and before US intervention.