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We, collectively as a country, are more worried about our 401k than a guy with a name they can't pronounce being sent to a country they couldn't find on a map with a gun to their head.
When we started sending people, any people, no matter the reasoning, to foreign torture prisons and active war zones like South Sudan and who knows where else, we all lost a piece of our humanity. Don't worry though because our Supreme Court literally said it was legal and ok.
That we still go to work and do all our normal daily tasks and watch TV and go out and eat dinner while a guy from Guatemala, that just came here to pick tomatoes, is being flown to South Sudan and dropped off in a country he has never been, can't speak the language, no money, no passport and no way to contact anyone. In a place experiencing war and ethnic cleansing.
Meanwhile we are going through our days as if none of that is happening with our money, in our country's name.
That is the part I can't understand. We, as a country, seem pretty casual about the whole thing: "oh, we are sending more innocent people to be tortured and murdered in a country they have no connection? Oh well, let's go see a movie"
That we are not literally living in the streets in protests, burning it to the fucking ground if necessary, shows that we, as a country, have lost all context of what is right and what is wrong. We, collectively, have lost the plot. We are not willing to do the hard stuff for the ideals of a country we pretend to love.
Hopefully that will change before we lose all our humanity to a wannabe dictator that looks like an inside out sweet potato.
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