81. "we need to be more honest with ourselves...the cognitive dissonance on t..." In response to In response to 0 Tue Jun-19-18 10:20 PM by rob
the left is just as baffling to me as the cognitive dissonance on the right.
this is only a (slight) step beyond what was already happening.
this is what we said was going to happen during the election.
we were here for every step.
maybe this is the straw that broke the camel's back for some of us, and y'all have every right to be weary.
but it doesn't read like that to me. it reads like people choosing to let this slip out of their consciousness even though it was in the news often over the past five years. i'm kinda pissed about the disingenuousness of someone like rachel maddow reacting with shocked tears to babies breaking news.
the groundwork was already laid...private prison middle managements, ice bureaucrats, social workers, guards...that infrastructure has been built up through several administrations...how are we shocked?
i'm really scared people in the middle of our political spectrum wouldn't care about this right now under a different president, and i'm pretty sure a lot of it would still be happening. and i got a real fucking problem with people ignoring decades of state-sponsored terror campaigns against central americans but being offended now because those kids are crying in texas instead of what they had to go through *getting* to texas, and what their parents and grandparents had to live through (or not) to drive them to that point.
we're still so into the theatrics of trump personally that we're focusing on that like it matters and not realizing that this is still a question of america's original sins and the banality of evil.
i'm worried about the next election cycle because we still don't seem to want to own that. i don't see how we get the sea change we need in this country until the dems are ready to change too.