Opportunistic Politicians

Someone asked me how I felt that Donald Trump might be re-elected. Wether now or if he, or someone just like him won in 2024.  I could not even answer the question fast enough. Too many thoughts were running through my head. I thought about how the country I was born into, a country I was taught was benign, how I thought that we stood for what was right, and freedom and democracy for all, and all that; had really let me down, and how it really hurt to know I was lied to all my life. 

I thought about the racist white supremacists who have never been put in their place, who continue not caring about issues like Mass Incarceration, or Family Detention Centers, since it does not really affect them. I thought about, how good it would be if one day karma put them in their place. I thought about how the U.S. election, has two main parties, but they both seem to be Pro-Business parties, that really do not represent the little people of the United States. We do not have a party that truly represents the average worker. The Red Scares, Palmer Raids, Union Busting, massacres, e.g. The Ludlow Massacre, The Everett Massacre, Lattimore Massacre, Republic Steel Massacre, made sure of that. 

I thought about how all the racists around the world have been emboldened, by Donald Trump, I thought about the growing number of swastikas, and hate speech graffiti, I seem to see nowadays.  I thought about racism in general, and how having suffered from it my whole life, I am so tired of it. I thought about the vulgarities that come out of this man's mouth, I thought about the disrespectful things he says about women and minorities in the U.S., and People of Color worldwide. I thought about his racist Immigration policies, where border guards throw tear gas at women with their babies. I thought about how disrespectfully he speaks About congress women Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and how he tells them to go back to their countries.

I am so disappointed in anyone who would vote for him, knowing full well that his rhetoric and actions are making life hard for people of color, his rhetoric and actions are also hurting Muslims worldwide. He is responsible for children dying in Immigration Detention Centers. He is responsible for forever traumatizing kids separated from their families. He is the kind of a person who would choose to give his 1st State of Union Address, on the date Hitler came to power (30th of January). 

So to answer the question, I dread that Trump could be re-elected.  The good people of the United States deserve so much better, and all humanity in general deserve so much better, and need a leader with compassionate ideas, a leader who wants to make things better for all the people of the world, a leader who realizes these are seriously crucial times we are living in, and someone who cares for the environment, and Mother Earth, a leader who aspires to attain a better future for the children and future generations, and not someone only looking out for the interests of big business, Special Interest Groups, and their own.

This racist does not seem to think about how people that are seeking a better life, will do anything for their children, they will do anything for their babies. If you study the history of many countries in what they call the Anglosphere, you will read about how their people went to other countries and displaced the original inhabitants, kidnapped children and put them in residential schools, tried to forcibly assimilate them into a foreign system, while the children suffered from countless abuses. 

You can study how the original people of places like Canada, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand still live today. You can study the history of poverty, and other social ills plaguing these areas. You can study the missing girls, who have been disappeared from reservations.

Watching the news, or reading the paper today, one can see how the peoples of different countries that have been destroyed by the foreign policies of countries like the U.S., England, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, and others, now have to flee their countries searching for a new life, and how now some citizens of these same former and current imperialist countries and some of the descendants of Euro Settlers, now living all over the world, applaud as peoples boats sink in the Mediterranean Sea. They have the audacity to have Immigration Detention Centers, including some that run for profit, were countless abuses are reported, and those are the ones that we know of. 

Do they not care about children dying in Immigration Detention Centers? Do their hearts not break, reading stories of children separated from their parents? Are they not alarmed about the conditions these children are living in? Do they only see my people as illegal criminals, or sub humans, because that is what their Racist in Chief (Trump), told them? Just remember people that is the same racist who tells you stories of a Mythic Past, a past, when the African American was three fifths of a man, and when the Declaration of Independence called the indigenous people, “savages.”

How can they not care, when they see images like of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez an El Salvadoran father who was trying to get to the U.S. by trying to cross the Rio Grande, and how his 23 month little girl jumped in the river after her daddy and the rivers current was too strong and swept them away. This hurts me deep inside. I feel so bad for this man, and for their family. This story made me so angry and it really broke my heart. My heart was also broken when I read about Marco Antonio Muñoz, the honduran man who took his own life, after his 3 year old boy was taken away from him, do to the racist Trump/Miller Child Seperation Policy. It breaks my heart to read about the over 10,000 dead in the U.S.-Mexico Border. It broke my heart to hear about the 9 year old girl that died in the Rio Grande yesterday.

My heart keeps breaking over and over, watching the country I used to think was a great country that stood for freedom and justice for all, killing more children with Native Blood at their immigration detention centers, on stolen Native land.  It is also especially sad, if one thinks about how the U.S. has destroyed Latino America via the I.M.F., The United Fruit Company, The School of the America’s,  military coups, embargoes, proxy wars, etc. It hurts me to watch my country, and see that over five hundred and fifty six thousand people have died do to this pandemic. It hurts to see how police keep killing BIPOC in a country that sells itself as "A Big Melting Pot." It hurts to see this country we all were told was a champion of democracy, have people in "For Profit Immigration Detention Centers" especially during a pandemic, meanwhile denying them asylum. It also is painful to read reports about how these asylum seekers are being exposed to dangerous chemicals, and I even read about women who were forcibly sterilization at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia.