Suppose for a moment that Trump carries through on his wildly popular promise to round up, incarcerate, and deport millions of immigrants. We can hope this does not happen. But all indicators tell us that some version of this plan is already in place, to begin immediately after he's sworn into office.
Ten points to consider:
1. Rounding up, incarcerating, and deporting millions of people will be an act of immense barbarism and cruelty.
2. If a nation's government engages in acts of immense barbarism and cruelty, every citizen of that nation is affected and implicated.
3. We may imagine that an act like this will affect "only" them, and not us.
4. Set barbarism and cruelty into motion from the top of a government, and it eventually reaches you and me and not just the targeted others.
5. All of these possibilites are compounded by Trump's promise to seize direct control of the military and turn militarized force against immigrants.
6. History shows us that any time a would-be strongman dictator takes control of the military and turns it on targeted segments of the population, everyone – especially dissidents and social outcasts – ends up being targeted.
7. Violence begets violence begets violence. Once you set it in motion in this way from the top of the government, it involves and threatens everyone.
8. When people see that their lust to hurt targeted others is blessed and encouraged by their leaders, that lust to hurt thrives, grows, spreads and begins to turn a society into hell on earth.
9. Ask anyone who has ever lived in a police state or who has good historical knowledge of how police states function what life will be like for us – all of us – as all of this is set into motion.
10. If Trump enacts this barbaric plan, do not expect the so-called "guardrails," including especially the corporate media, to act as the conscience of the nation or to resist the barbarism. To the contrary….
All to solve a made-up problem….
@wdlindsy
Where is he going to take those people? I’m not sure they’ll be taken in by Mexico or Canada. Is he going to fly them to their supposed countries? Are those countries going to accept them back?
CoreCivic and GeoGroup stock has ballooned on the stock markets.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-07/private-prison-stocks-soar-after-trump-win-on-deportation-plans
They maxed out donations to Trump early in anticipation of private prisons getting a massive influx of inmates.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/private-prison-behemoth-is-first-corporation-to-max-out-to-trump/
https://fortune.com/2024/05/16/prison-labor-inmates-face-injury-lost-limbs-corporation-supply-chain/
Working for pennies for other GOP donors like Walmart & Amazon. What union can compete with slaves?
Convict labor leased out to reward Republican donors...
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...like Nazi industrialists did.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/richest-german-nazi-billions
Seized lands or military lands given to private prison interests.
https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/The-business-of-owning-real-estate-where-13130253.php
The assets of immigrants will be seized & sold like the WW2 Japanese internment camps.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/02/my-family-lost-our-farm-during-japanese-incarceration-i-went-searching-for-what-remains/
